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Bright Young Women

  • Writer: Elizabeth Redhead
    Elizabeth Redhead
  • Jul 1, 2024
  • 2 min read

Updated: Aug 1, 2024

Author:


Jessica Knoll has published two New York Times bestsellers and adapted one into a Netflix movie starring Mika Kunis. Her books have been published in 40 different languages and she wrote the original script for what would become the show The Black List. She lives in LA with her husband and Bright Young Women is her third novel.




Three words to describe this read:


Natural- Knoll goes from one life changing, plot-altering event to another with such ease that the reader is forced to accept them as part of the story just as much as the characters are forced to accept them as a part of their lives.


Current- While the story centers around crimes from the 70s, there is an alternate storyline that takes place in the present, post-COVID. While I think this is only the second book that I’ve read that features life after the pandemic, it seems to be becoming more and more common.


Bingeable- I am not a quick reader and I usually can’t read more than one chapter or a handful of pages at a time, but I was able to read huge chunks of this book in one sitting. I really enjoyed the pace and the way that Knoll introduced new characters and plot lines. There are reviews of this book swirling around saying that the reader couldn’t finish the book or didn’t find it interesting but I have to wholeheartedly disagree.


Quote:


“I stood staring at the freshly made bed, thinking about how much of my life I’d spent feeling simultaneously like a child and the only adult in the room. Why couldn’t people just do their jobs? Why was it that I could rely only on myself?”


This quote sums up my experience as a young adult so far. When I was growing up, there may have been things that I thought I understood at the time, but I was always reminded, or later I would remind myself, that maybe I would feel different when I got older and learned a little more about life, so I was always sure to keep quiet and observe. I didn’t want to embarrass myself. Now as an adult, I go back and forth between keeping quiet and insisting that I do in fact understand at least as much as most people and that some things are simpler than anyone is willing to admit. At the end of the day, you can only depend on yourself because anyone else will disappoint you.

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