TBR (To Be Read): Light reads powered by female rage explain why women are angry
(From left) Deanna Raybourn's Kills Well With Others, Katy Brent's How To Kill Men And Get Away With It, and The Retirement Plan by Sue Hincenbergs. PHOTO: BERKLEY, HQ DIGITAL, SPHERE
SINGAPORE – Women are angry. Furious enough to kill. In books, at least.
In the past couple of years, there has been a distinct strand in mainstream light fiction which I have been categorising as 'madsploitation' reads.
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