Three women with their own challenges in life who all circle around Jake. Jake and Anna start a new app to help women form friendships. In the high tech business in Seattle this business has taken off. This story is told from three POV's: (1) Anna, who has two sons with Jake and later they divorce. (2) Jessica, the new wife who is pregnant with hers and Jake's daughter. (3) Sam, Jake's college girlfriend who gets pregnant in college. These women come together as an odd family of sorts who bond together.

It made for an interesting story, but one that I kept thinking, "NO, don't do that"! But these obvious issues make for a complicated story about women who need each other while Jake doesn't come across as a sterling character! Obviously!

My thanks to Net Galley and Zibby Books for an advanced copy of this e-book.

Three women (Anna, Samanta and Jessica) who were involved romantically with take on the manipulative tech CEO (Jake) who wrote them out of his startup's history. But they don't plan to let that happen.

Fast paced. Good character development. Likable characters.

interesting book. For some reason, I went into it expecting it to be about something else so that’s my fault and threw me and my enjoyment off a bit.

I was taken away with this storyline!
I enjoyed getting to know the three main characters in WOMEN ARE THE FIERCEST CREATURES by Andrea Dunlop! She truly delivers on her title, which made me so proud when I closed the book! This is a book you gift a friend to read.
I cannot say it enough,,,,This title was superb!
Thank you NetGalley and ZibbyBooks for the advanced copy in exchange for a fair and honest review.
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Beautiful book. Such a refreshing read and so relatable for all women in this day and age. I really like the way this author writes her characters this one will stick with me.

One of the best books I’ve read this year! Everyone needs to buy Women Are The Fiercest Creatures. Definitely Recommend!

Three different successful women are all connected to the same man, either through marriage or fatherhood. Jake Sarnoff has charmed them all and became a integral figure in their lives. But as time has carried on is Jake as wonderful and talented as everyone thinks he is? He has managed to give each woman a part of himself, yet never give them the full commitment they deserve.
This provoking and juicy story draws you into the web of these women and the situation that Jake has created amongst them. Strong characters you will root for, even when some of their less pleasant flaws begin to appear.
Their is a great spirit of womanhood woven through the book and it truly does live up to the title. Great for bookclub for a weekend read.
Thank you Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

three women, one tech CEO, one tangled web of stories and lives and careers that unfolds in three parts. this one felt so timely in the era of shady dudes getting away with crap on the backs of women who deserved the credit, and while i can’t really say i ENJOYED it (because it’s not really a fun read), i was intrigued by the characters and curious to see how all the chaos would come out in the end. the ending ultimately felt way too abrupt for me, but the epilogue made up for it a bit, and i landed on a solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️ for this one!

thanks for sending me a free copy, @zibbybooks!

Genuinely interesting, and really compelling writing for all of the women, I think the story is also timely. This is a send-up of tech bros in an era where they are all but gods. Should sell well/appeal to many.

Thank you soooooo much netgalley, the author and the publisher for the advanced review copy if this book💗
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Love it!

I was initially drawn into this book because of the title. I love what it has to say and was really looking forward to a book of female empowerment. While we did eventually get some female badassery, this was much more a story about a misogynistic, cowardly, philanderer of a man who steals the creative ideas from the far more talented women in his life.

To say that this book was intensely frustrating would be an understatement. We have three beautiful, talented, intelligent women who are all taken in and deceived by this trash man. I kept hoping they'd all team up and just burn his world to the ground. Unfortunately, there wasn't that much catharsis in this book. I just wanted to see him destroyed and the book sort of only skimmed over what happened to him in the end.

All in all, if you want to read a book about dysfunctional relationships, a trash man, and three women fighting to get what they deserve, you may enjoy this.

*Thank you to Netgalley, Andrea Dunlop, and Zibby for the E-ARC of this book. This in no way affects the objectivity of my review.

This was the perfect book to highlight the complexity of being a woman! I love how the author touched on topics of divorce, parenthood, pregnancy, and ultimately friendship. The characters were well developed and played their part, especially Jake, what a jerk! Overall, I enjoyed this book and how it gave credit to the women that helped make the man/company.

[4.25 stars]

Dunlop's previous novel (We Came Here to Forget) was an underrated gem for me the year it came out and I think Women are the Fiercest Creatures will be an underrated gem for me in 2023. This is the story of a devious tech startup CEO (Jake Sarnoff) as told by the 3 women he erased from his successful start-up’s history: his ex-wife who helped him build the company, his college girlfriend, and his much younger second wife. I loved the backdrop of women in venture capital and how few women-led businesses get VC funding. This story is also about how women cater to men and men move through life subconsciously expecting it. But, despite the depressing issue that Dunlop beautifully addresses, this is a story of hope and overcoming the B.S. surrounding these women. It's a great light read with substance that feels different from your average Brain Candy.

This is a riveting debut that revolves around what it means to be a woman. The three female protagonists are strong and their stories are compelling - the issues around their friendships, their careers, their families, their friendships are all relatable. I love how they came together when they were wronged and they truly prove the title true. Andrea dunlop is a terrific writer and I'm excited to see what she puts out next.

Thanks to Zibby Books and NetGalley for the copy to review.

Andrea Dunlop delivers again. I think this is her best yet. She writes strong women in a way that captures you heart and soul. I loved the way this story is told – from start to finish-these fierce women are real. I loved the twists and turns and the ending was satisfying in a way I hadn’t expected.


Highly recommend.

I love a story of women in charge and this is just that. I love this title for a bookclub read and it is very contemporary. a great debut novel!

This story had a rich and promising premise: multiple women who have one thing in common - one man whose charisma and control have altered their lives. These women converge in the same city, and it seems as though justice will come once they collectively make him pay. There is promise of a climax, but it doesn’t really come. The female characters were not written distinctively enough, so it took me a moment to realize with each new chapter whose story was being shared. There are some clever character vignettes, and just when I got a handle on who was who, the chapter would change. There was a lot I enjoyed, but I did not walk away thinking the title fit the book.

Strangers is one of the largest tech companies in the social media space. The upcoming IPO is going to make founder and CEO Jake Sarnoff more money than he has ever imagined at the same time that his young instagrammable wife Jessica is about to give birth. Anna, wife #1, is an attorney who helped build Strangers and while raising their two teenage sons during this transition has not been easy, she is doing her best to keep the peace. Samanta, Jake’s college ex-girlfriend who has never gotten over Jake’s abandonment is suddenly back in his life while working with a New York Times reporter regarding a story of the very public IPO and its questionable past. In this small upscale town outside Seattle the very rich firmly believe they can manipulate any situation to their advantage and these women are tired of the male hierarchy controlling their lives. No matter how handsome and charming Jake may be, they are finally seeing the light. In a world where social media is already controlling the masses, this premise is not that farfetched at all! At the beginning the reader is quickly introduced to a very large cast of characters and it may feel a little confusing. Worth hanging in there as it all comes together creating a suspenseful story filled with family drama, tech secrets and delicious revenge.

My first thoughts are "I wish I read this with my book club because it would be a great conversation!" We follow 3 women and how the same, powerful man impacts their lives- one is raising his child, one was married to him and one is married to him. Quite the combo! It has the heartbreak, family aspect, and power of love story that I adore - especially when it's tied to the strength of women! The pacing was wonderful and it was hard to put down- Andrea Dunlop nailed it with this one! Thank you to NetGalley, Zibby Books and Andrea for this ARC. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

"If everything women do is invisible, people have an excuse to erase them." Andrea Dunlop (We Came Here to Forget) weaves this theme across the stories of the three women, connected via the man they (used to, or maybe still) love, at the center of Women Are the Fiercest Creatures.

"This is what a feminist looks like?" writes a journalist in a scathing feature article about Jake Sarnoff, "a straight white male tech impresario longing to distance himself from any of the negative associations with those identity labels," and the social media app he's about to make public. She's right to question him. Jake's actions speak louder than his words: he's left Anna, his first wife and mother of his two teen sons, and married Jessica, a much younger Instagram influencer now expecting their child. Also in the mix is Sam, his college sweetheart, with whom he had a brief affair again somewhere in the midst of his marriage to Anna. It's not just Jake's interpersonal relationships that are messy but also the ways in which he draws these women into supporting him and his business: "For years, his selfishness had been burnished by the various people in his life... orbiting around him like planets, always subject to his pull." As the women in Jake's life break free of his pull, they discover, individually and as a collective, their fierceness. And while Jake's comeuppance at the end of the smart and provocative Women Are the Fiercest Creatures feels predictable and a little tidy, it is also immensely satisfying to see these nuanced, imperfect women thrive in a male-dominated world. --Kerry McHugh, freelance writer, for Shelf Awareness for Readers