If I wasn't seeing the author speak this week, I would have thrown this book out the window. The "über-feminist" male character has just told a female (lawyer) character he is impressed she correctly used "phalanx" and "spelunking" correctly in a sentence. How FEMINIST of him.
Let it never be said that a man can't write cliché-filled, suspension-disbelief stretching, shitty chick-lit (for sadly, that is where this book fits) as well as any woman.
This book is sorely trying my patience and willingness to suspend disbelief. A die hard feminist man who claims to have read every feminist tract he can get his hands on, yet is unaware of John Stuart Mill's The Subjection of Women. Just one NOPE of many.
so-soThis was certainly a fast read and mixed light-heartedness with a more serious message, but I found the dialogue a little more "speechy" in places than in other Fallis novels. I was also able to predict a few plot points. I would recommend this more to people who have already read a book by Fallis.
Day 7 of the #booktober #bookphotochallenge is "borrowed". I don't tend to borrow a lot of books because I am notorious for not getting to them right away, but here are three I currently have. Poles Apart is from a friend, Mr Shakespeare's Bastard is from a local Little Free Library and The Girl With Seven Names is from my SIL. Now that I've taken a picture of them, perhaps I should read them soon!
A great read. Terri Fallis never disappoints and continued to do so with this novel filled with engaging, funny characters and a funny, unique, thought provoking story line. Also an interesting perspective of feminism, contributed to by characters from both ends of the spectrum on this topic.
Poles Apart | 
