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Janine_S
Dual timeline thriller
Propulsive dual timeline thriller exposing the violence perpetrated on women and how crime against women is perceived.
On the day Margot Cooper learns her “loving” husband, Jack, a famous actor, has cheated on her, she leaves with her teenage daughter, Skye, and drives to her family home in Pittsburgh to be with her sister, Julia. Julia and Margot decide to clean up the home’s attic where they discover newspapers going back to 1977 dealing with a female vigilante, Lady X. Was their mother, Ginger, Lady X? As the sisters investigate, Margot’s husband, Jack, is harassing her to make a public statement and basically save his career. What Margot learns from the Lady X story is that woman can survive the slings and arrows of misogyny and abuse.
The book is a dual timeline alternating between 2024 and 1977. Ginger, Margot and Julia’s mother tells her story in 1977 while Margot does on 2024. Both women share a story about abuse at the hands of makes but I thought Lady X’s story was the better one. I liked that the author was trying to fit the two stories together but I wonder if that was necessary. I think too Margot missed the boat in understanding what Lady X was all about. Though I do applauded her At the end of the book.
This is an intriguing feminist book. It’s got enough suspense to keep you reading. And it’d make a great beach read.
Thank you NetGalley and Ballantine Books for granting me access to this ARC.
