So poorly written that it was difficult to finish. The characters and dialogue left a lot to be desired and the story line is almost nonexistent.

Four friends from Uni days reunite, Matilda a writer, Cressida and actor, Penny a news anchor and Jo who arrives at the lunch, disguised as a man.

They all agree that it is a mans world, as Jo has discovered, and start plotting to take revenge on the men who has discarded them because of their ages.

A laugh a minute and also some cringing moments, makes the book one you will not put down!

Standard fair for Kathy Lette fans. A light read with lots of her wit and high jinks. Thanks to #netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.

3.5 stars

This is an entertaining read, I don't think I gelled well with it mostly as I'm in my twenties so I vibed more with the 'younger' female characters, I did enjoy the way the men were portrayed as it is VERY REALISTIC and really enjoyed the whole friendship groups vibe.

SPOILER;

I didn't really get why Jo ditched them towards the end then like an hour later decided to be there for them again, this wasn't very well explained I don't think but still. It's fun

I was most pleased to be given access to this book by Kathy Lette. Although I haven't read many books by her, I did thoroughly enjoy this one. Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressida are all women at the top of their game and careers. However things are about to turn for them all thanks to men and the patriarchy. However, Jo comes up with a plan to get revenge on all the men who have created havoc for them. What ensues is a great fun read that I couldn't put down.

'When the odds are against you, it's time to get even' - we follow four women in their 50-somethings who are set to take revenge against the men who wronged them.

Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are overlooked and pushed aside by men in their respective industries, so they create The Revenge Club - a club to take down the misogynistic men and their behaviour. We follow them as they come up with some hilarious ideas to take them down and put their plans into action.

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Well, I definitely had quite a fair few laughs throughout with the dry humour. One of my favourites was the analysis of a woman wondering why her husband seemed off with her - does he not love me anymore? Is he having an affair? Have I done something wrong? No, Ireland just lost the rugby.

I've never read anything by Kathy Lette before, but this book has made me want to pick up more with the humour that was involved!

Overall, it was a really entertaining, lighthearted read with important topics weaved throughout. Thank you to NetGalley and Aria & Aries for this copy. This review is voluntary.

A Hilarious Rollercoaster of Revenge and Redemption

Kathy Lette’s “The Revenge Club” is a delightfully entertaining novel that takes readers on a wild ride of revenge, friendship, and self-discovery.

The story revolves around three women who come together to form a club dedicated to seeking revenge on those who have wronged them. As the plot unfolds, readers are taken on a hilarious and unpredictable journey as the trio navigates the ups and downs of their mission for justice.

The author effortlessly weaves together lighthearted moments with deeper themes of empowerment, self-discovery, and overcoming obstacles. Through the characters’ experiences, Lette explores the complexities of relationships, the power of forgiveness, and the importance of standing up for oneself. It is a hilarious and empowering read that will leave readers laughing, cheering, and reflecting on the power of friendship and self-discovery.

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I really enjoyed this book told from Matilda's POV. A group of friends are reunited in their need for revenge!
It was a very comical and witty read. I loved all the characters and could feel their connection through the pages,
I think it's a really inspiring and powerful book for women of all ages - as well as simply very entertaining and funny!

Thank you to NetGalley and Aria & Aries for sending me this eARC in exchange for an honest review.

I love the message behind this book! It’s a fun story about empowering women and calling men out on their bullshit behaviour, and it shines a light on a lot of things men get away with to this day!

However, I did find the dialogue jarring at times. It didn’t really read like a real conversation to me, it was more like a bunch of jokes in a row where the characters were talking over each other instead of listening to the other person. It sort of infuriated me when the protagonist kept interrupting with jokes when her friends were having emotional revelations. I just didn’t get it because the style of humour wasn’t my cup of tea!

My only other issue was the way they spoke about other women in the book. I get that they were mad at these women for the roles they played in helping the men in their lives hurt them, but it always annoys me when women get blamed for men’s bad behaviour, and worse still get bullied for it! It just didn’t feel like it lined up with the message of the book.

Overall it was a fun read and an important message!

A genuinely laugh-out-loud book featuring four 50-something women combining forces to get their own back on the appallingly misogynistic men who've done them wrong. Although it's humorous, it covers issues such as invisibility that, sadly, many women, including me, will identify with, told from the perspective of the hilarious Tilly.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an ARC.

I liked the premise of the novel and the title. It features the authors zany and witty observational style. Unfortunately I did not engage with the narrative and failed to finish.

Good book with a cute story inside. I really liked the main characters in this one as they played well off each other.

This book does make slightly depressive reading as you know that being overlooked when you are a women of a certain age is a thing. However, it is amusing following their story as they try and right the wrongs and show various people up for their treatment of it. There were times when it felt slightly uncomfortable but was a great read.

First time reader of Kathy Lette and I’m now a fan!

Friendship, betrayal, love, family drama and of course revenge is all in this book. If I had known how funny Kathy was, I would have been a fan a long time ago. I was hooked from the beginning and couldn’t wait to read the ending.

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for providing me with this ARC for my honest opinion.

This was a very entertaining read in true Kathy Lette style. A good book to read if you’re after something lighthearted (although it does contain some serious issues)

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Matilda is fed up with her ex husband exhausting their bank account and even more depressed when her literary agent refuses to publish her latest novel on the grounds that she is too old for her books to appeal to modern-day readers.

Penny is brasses off when she is axed as co-host of a long-running and popular TV programme, and Cressida, an actress, is quite sure that her husband is having a flig with a much younger woman.

The three open their hearts when they meet up with Jo, now flaunting herself as handsome Joe, and working in Hollywood with a control freak who refuses to work with any women.

All four were great friends when at University having formed a poplular band, but broke up and all went their separate ways after graduating.

At their reunion in London ad a pep talk from Joe (or should it be Jo) , they set out to take Revenge, in various ways on all the men who have used, abused, ad upset them ………

Understandably there are several criticisms and finally everything could well collapse but, with an unexpected turn of events, would everything work out well or not ?? This would make a good holiday read.

Thanks to NetGalley and publisher Aria & Aries for an ARC of this novel.

This is a very funny, very sad book about how women over 50 fare in contemporary society. Just when they think all their hard work has paid off and they are truly hitting their stride, the hardest years of childbearing behind them, in comfortable relationships or happily alone, careers established with more success imminent, someone says “No. You’re too old.” And they are expected to shrivel up and get out of the way. Because even in the 21st century, there is a unspoken consensus that youth reigns and women over 50 are old crows. Men over 50, on the other hand, get to live—and thrive—as though age merely enhances their every sign of aging.

That’s a harsh interpretation of ageism but the author hits the mark with this story of four female friends whose ‘best before’ dates are suddenly and randomly declared to have passed. This comes as a terrible blow to three of them. Jo is the only one who had already seen the reality and had actively chosen an unconventional approach to fight it. Fast friends in university, the four had gone their own ways, and Jo was the only one who had left the UK to work in the U.S. They are stunned to find that Jo had become Joe, looking like and living as a man. Never committed to being a woman, she finally made her choice when she was fed up with being overlooked, denigrated and dismissed in her career while lesser-skilled men rose. The other three are accepting of her choice, but refuse to surrender their view that life is currently much better for women—even those “of a certain age”— and that they are living proof of that.

On their second lunch date, all three have been through a serious and synchronous overturning of the very dreams they had thought were imminent only a week earlier. Joe was right. Tilly, the writer—who is actually writing this story—has been dropped and insulted by her life-long editor, because no one wants stories by and about women her age. The actress Cressida is offered a job by an indifferent millennial agent —doing either vaginal deodorant or adult diaper commercials. A respected actress and crowd stopping beauty who gave up her career on the request of her high flying lawyer husband, she was confident that, now that the youngest of her four daughters was leaving home, she would simply resume her film career. But she is too old. She returns home to her blessed consolation of a husband, with whom she is celebrating their 25th anniversary, to find him having sex with an actress one third his age. Penny, the intrepid war reporter and hard-nosed TV journalist, is informed at the very last minute that her longed-for move from a lunchtime to a prime time slot will happen only for the stupid male co-host she had carried for fifteen years. He is her age, but she’s the one who is too old.

Jo/Joe’s response to their plight is not smug or self-righteous, as it could be. She doesn’t feel vindicated, but counsels vindication. And so the Revenge Club forms. With Joe in the lead, each of them summons strengths old and new to fight a seemingly unwinnable battle against sexism reinforced by ageism. What they plot, and what they do, together and alone, is testimony to the bonds of friendship among women. In the wonderfully witty and often lewd Tilly’s voice, it is also hilarious and heartwarming. Of course they don’t win the war, but they have notable battle victories. I’ve never before read anything by Kathy Lette, but she has definitely won a place on my “must reads” list with this one.

Watch out all misogynists, the females of the species are taking no prisoners! They’re out for blood, well humiliation at the very least!!

Told entirely from Matilda’s perspective, an estranged group of four university friends is brought back together to enact revenge against the chauvinists in their lives. The lengths these women go to are brilliant and most definitely chuckle-worthy!

These women haven’t seen each other in years, their camaraderie is like an old friend. They slip into their parts of the fight with ease, their planning and execution is admirable especially as they pull in other wronged women to join the revenge.

The Revenge Club is a call to arms, a movement against misogynistic behaviour against female counterparts. Lette has created a comic take on a very serious and relevant subject. At the heart of this story is friendship and female solidarity. This is a highly entertaining topical read! Fabulous read!

I've never read Kathy Lette before but I knew of her fame, so had high hopes for this when I requested it from Netgalley. The premise in the blurb seemed good, but sadly, I was lette down. This book is a string of internet memes put together - all ones I have seen before many times. The four main characters are unlikable, and I bridled at the old-fashioned way they were presented as past their prime. I seriously doubt that is the modern experience for women in their 40s and 50s - it certainly isn't mine or my friends'. The denouement wasn't too bad, but not enough to bring this up to three stars.

Lette disparages 'I-don't-give-a-shit lit', but that's exactly what she has produced. Right at the end, Tilly (the fictional Lette character) writes a book about what has happened in The Revenge Club, then attacks the reviewers who didn't like it, almost like Lette expects critics to pan this book because she knows she didn't put much effort in and that her best is behind her.

I think the final straw for me was when Tilly called her autistic daughter 'the neurodivergent' rather than by her name or 'my daughter'. That gave me the ick. I won't be reading anything else by this author.

***Disclaimer: This e-ARC was provided to me by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Huge thanks to them. ***

After reading the short excerpt, I was thrilled to bits when the publisher and NetGalley gave me access to the ARC for The Revenge Club. I'd absolutely LOVED chapter one and was eager to see if the rest of the book was just as good.

It was better! Absolutely fabulous!

The laugh out loud moments continued as well as poignant moments. I will definitely recommend this book and we on the look out for future titles by this author.