I really enjoyed reading McGregor's writing style and look into feminism and Jurassic Park. Definitely opened my eyes to themes that I hadn't noticed in the movies before. It wasn't until writing this review that I realized she's one of the co-hosts of the Witch, Please podcast that I used to listen to years ago, so I was pleasantly surprised to engage with her work again. I think that anyone who wants a better look at how women and societal notions of womanhood clash but also are celebrated in the movie, should give this a read.

As a raging feminist who LOVES Jurassic Park, I was excited for this! Hannah McGregor clearly knows her stuff. She writes in a way that is both intelligent and accessible for the reader to understand. I do feel I learned a lot. However, I felt the weakness here was the connection with Jurassic Park. I get what she was going for, but some of the connections felt a little reaching and I would love to read her critiques on other areas of pop culture instead.

ARC provided by NetGalley.

I loved this I’m a huge Jurassic park fan and love dinosaurs so was so excited when I seen this book and it did not disappoint I found it interesting and felt u had a few things in common with Hannah which was nice it felt more personal to me
I’m now off to watch Jurassic park again as this book brought my love for it back

Hannah McGregor's Clever Girl was an interesting, well thought out and very well written examination of Jurassic Park that tickled my English Major heart. Despite the differences between myself and the author I found a lot of common ground between us and thoroughly enjoyed her writing.

Special Thanks to ECW Press and Netgalley for the digital ARC. This was given to me for an honest review.