Fashionable fiction by women about women.
With a title like “How to Kill Men and Get Away with It,” first-time author Katy Brent will stop you in your tracks. Brent, a magazine journalist, wrote her debut novel about a British vegan social media influencer who murders bad men without repercussions. Kitty Collins, an incredibly popular Instagrammer, presents as blonde, sexually available,…
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Most of us read “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman sometime during college. The short story first fell into obscurity for decades after its original publication in January 1892. Since being rediscovered in 1970, “The Yellow Wallpaper” has become a standard for anthologies and women’s studies courses. Gilman’s most famous work follows an unnamed…
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Rachel Hawkins returns to the American south with her newest novel, “The Heiress.” Set in Ashby House in the small town of Tavistock, N.C., the mystery of Ruby McTaviston and her family fortune follows three perspectives and includes confessional letters of many dirty deeds. Hawkins, who broke into adult fiction with a retelling of “Jane…
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Taking inspiration from an array of male authors, CJ Leede created a female sociopathic serial killer to rival them all with “Maeve Fly.” Leede references “Story of the Eye” by Gorges Bataille, “Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis as role models for Maeve Fly’s actions. The daytime Disney…
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I want to reflect on some reading highs and lows as we say goodbye to 2023. Since creating Heroine Chic Reviews in April, I’ve had the pleasure of finding some captivating fiction worthy of more exposure. I also read some works that decidedly weren’t my proverbial cup of tea. Let’s take a look at what…
