THIS BOOK IS THE BEST! It made me snort with laughter as I listened. It is funny, bright, relevant and absolutely brilliant. Bravo.

The Revenge Club, Kathy Lette
Audiobook
1/5⭐️

Thank you to NetGalley for letting me have this arc for a honest review.
I picked this because I really liked the cover art and thought it sounded like it could be quite fun. But oh wow I really did not like this.

‘WHEN THE ODDS ARE AGAINST YOU, IT'S TIME TO GET EVEN.
Matilda, Jo, Penny and Cressy are all women at the top of their game; so imagine their surprise when they start to be personally overlooked and professionally pushed aside by less-qualified men.
Only they’re not going down without a fight.
Society might think the women have passed their amuse-by dates but the Revenge Club have other plans.
After all, why go to bed angry when you could stay up and plot diabolical retribution? Let the games begin...’

I found this book to be very slow and to be honest I was quite bored. It took a very long time to get anywhere with it and when the women started to seeking revenge I had lost interest and was underwhelmed. Some parts felt a little preachy and the continuous puns overdone.

The idea of the story was fun and had potential, this just sadly wasn’t for me. I didn’t overly enjoy the narration and all the different accents flying around, so maybe I would have enjoyed it more if I had read the ebook instead?

This book is about sticking it to the patriarchy and addressing the issues faced by middle aged women - whether it be in love, work, or friendships. Tales of being overlooked, mocked, discarded, and cheated on. It tells us of the power of women, and of female friendships, and it takes a very comical approach to lighten what is a serious and relevant topic. I did find this book a bit too over the top for me, laying the drama on thick and definitely jumping straight into the ridiculous. The characters were also hard to keep track of, with four main female characters and then their wrongdoers, I was struggling to remember who’s who. And, which friendship won out in the end, there’s a point near the end of the book where you realise they’re all self obsessed and pretty bad friends. It took a very unexpected and painful turn, which I found really jarring with the general tone of the rest of the book. Lette did a good job of narrating the audiobook, except for the character accents which were a little odd and inauthentic, and the voices of the characters without accents all seemed to blur into one. So overall, mixed feelings about this one. It was an easy read with great messages but the whole thing was wacky.

I received a free copy of this book. All views are my own.

Kathy Lette's familiar humour and characteristic trademark manic wit can be found in this novel which I listened to on audio. It is approximately about 11 hours and 50 minutes long, narrated by the author herself. I have to admit that given how Lette comes across so strong in her interviews and other work, I chose the audio because I thought she would shine, but for some reason whilst she was okay, she was not great. This might not have been helped by the fact that for me it turned out to be a mixed bag of a read, sometimes her storytelling was too predictable and over the top and her humour missed its mark, leaving me wanting the book to be over as soon as possible.

The Revenge Club's 4 women, Penny, Jo, Matilda, and Cressida are at that time of life when it is common that women become invisible and suffer the slings and arrows of misfortune and misogyny that are likely to come their way, being pushed aside relationship and careerwise, and it is Jo that guides them into coming together with plans to address the injustices and exact revenge. Given the nature of the book, it perhaps should not be expected that it would have fully rounded and realistic characters. Whilst thee were certainly aspects I enjoyed, there were the parts that grated, but for some readers and listeners it might be that more of it hits the mark, we are all different.

Please read other reviews to decide if this is a read or audio for you. Many thanks for the publisher for an ALC.

Having read books by Kathy Lette previously, I was expecting great things from this. I was disappointed. The characters are dull and the storyline is depressingly just bitter. The narration was fine but wasn't able to inject the much needed spark.

Thank you to NetGalley for approving me to listen to this book, all opinions are my own.

This audiobook was hilarious! It features a group of women who are in well established careers and approaching a milestone age.

This book goes through problems that women go through in all stages of life when they put their career first, and how they can be treated by men within their respective careers.

It was funny, some of the quotes made me laugh out loud, it was easy to listen to and I loved the female empowerment that shone through this book.

The only downside I would say it the author isn’t the best at doing Irish and Scottish accents but that is it.

Would highly recommend.

I listened to the audiobook version of this, I appreciated it was narrated by the author.
I really just couldn't gel or get into this book, but I appreciate it is a personal thing and will appeal to particular groups.
Thanks for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I had really mixed feeling about this book.
I found it absolutely hilarious and found myself laughing loads. I appreciated some of the insights into sexism and how much of a woman’s life it really affects. But I found the need for revenge a bit much at times. I thought that by trying to be strong women, they actually lowered themselves too much, and set a really bad precedent by involving their children. Especially when their reassurance to her son was we like some things about men. They can fix things.

Absolutely adored this book. Menopausal women getting their own back on men and the patriarchy. What's not to like? This is a hilarious yet incisive ride of a book, expertly narrated by Kathy Lette who is brilliant - have always loved her- I listened to the audiobook at night - on headphones in bed, but my husband complained as I kept waking him up with my giggles. If i could give it a hundred stars I would.

🎧Audio Book Review🎧

The Revenge Club
Kathy Lette

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First things first ....I am not a feminist!
Now, don't get me wrong ....
I'm a woman with a mind of my own who went out to get what I wanted out of life which happened to be becoming a successful wife and mother.
I'm traditional - but....and I stress the but! I completely understand how the world is and that certain things need to change.....and how would that happen without women taking a stand.

I do however, struggle with narratives that become more preachy (of any kind, not just about feminism), so was really pleased that this only touched on that side of things occasionally.
In the main, this was a brilliant, fun story in which a group of friends plot revenge against the men in their lives who have done them wrong.
Now this I can get behind!!

I loved the dynamic between the four friends, Matilda, Cressida, Penny and Jo. All successful women in their own right, but as the years have passed, the men around them have written them off.
Their thoughts, feelings, plans, decision making, doubts and everything in-between are laid out in the open for our delight and given the abhorrent behaviour of the men in their lives - I have to say that I was tight behind them every step!

There are more than a few twists within the story and I really liked that there were a couple of good examples of men thrown in for good measure too! (I needed that as a Mum of 2 boys)

This was well written. Focussing on a very relevent theme, this keeps things light-hearted whilst also getting the message across.
Being a woman of (almost) this age, I found it easy to relate to lots of the elements....as well as finding it hilarious.
A great boost to remind us all to start each day as a fresh page and do what makes us happy!


*I listened to this on audio book and it was such a treat to have this read brilliantly by the author themself.
I admire all narrators, but find that you can't beat a great self-narrated book - a real joy to listen to!!



💕Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for my ARC copy - this is my honest review 💕

I found myself laughing, cringing, cheering as I listened to this audiobook story of four older women, let down and left behind in the misogynist world fighting back to take their revenge. To find themselves, maybe not as perfect as they thought, but with the energy and gumption to do something about the males who have trampled all over their spirit. I especially liked the pizzazz of the narrator - the author herself, and the epilogue. Thank you to Head of Zeus Audiobooks and NetGalley for the audio ARC. The views expressed are all mine, freely given.

4 women of a certain age are left seeking revenge on the men in their lives. Partners, employers and agents are in for the chop.

I really struggled getting into this book. I liked the premise but not the delivery or content.

2 stars for me. Didn’t hate it but wouldn’t recommend to my friends.


With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the audiobook ARC copy in exchange for an honest review.

DNF at 50%

The Revenge Club follows a quartet of middle aged friends who meet for a catch up, except one of them has been masquerading as a man. She's not trans, she just wants to benefit from a patriarchal society where men succeed, earn more, and are taken seriously for half the effort after being rejected for a job. After this revelation, the rest of the group subsequently experiences some misogyny (ones husband is having an affair, another's book is rejected, and the other is offered a job she deems demeaning) and thus plot revenge on the men that wronged them.

This was awful. I wanted to DNF at less than 10% but I carried on to give a fair review, but I couldn't take it anymore. I wanted a fun, easy read but instead received cringey basic white feminism that's trying too hard to be funny.

We start with a woman who has essentially transitioned - name change, prosthetics, clothing, etc - and is living as a man 24/7, but doesn’t identify as one, which just feels vaguely transphobic hiding behind the guise of feminism. Not to mention the audiobook narration for Jo(e) was annoying as hell. We're then greeted with a slurry of insulting 'feminism' that is particularly offensive in a political climate that is removing reproductive rights, overturning Harvey Weinstein's conviction, and puts the blame on women when raped because we couldn't possibly ruin a man's career, eg "There's never been a better time to be female... the hashtag me to movement propelled equality to global prominence, high profile men now get called out for sexual harassment, assault, and discrimination. The only way feminism could go more mainstream is if it was liquidised and turned into a Frappuccino" before insulting young women for the crime of lip syncing pop music. Following this delight, once the group is personally effected, they’re quick to plan revenge and leap to murder for having "suffered acts of the most atrocious A grade scumbaggery", when in fact they've been grievanced by pretty basic events. Interspersed between the cringe, puns, and outdated attempts at humour was inappropriate hyperbole and multiple jokes about Russia invading Ukraine. This is all in the first 10% or so. As the group is devastated to be "suffering from facial prejudice", they easily trick the devilish men with shenanigans otherwise found in a 00's teen movie. I soon gave up. I can only assume this is someone's idea of revenge on me, and I must have really really hurt them because this was one of the worst things I've ever read. The narration wasn't great and I've heard better accents playing drinking games. It would be an easy read if it wasn't so painful, but the prose is simplistic. I had to check the author was a woman with how bad this was, but her author bio seems to have the same cringey humour - it's so cool to joke about having an affair! Hehe! It's safe to say we'll never be friends and I won't touch another of her books with a barge pole. Thank you to netgalley for the arc.

A fun, light-hearted and laugh-out-loud audiobook, full of Kathy Lette's characteristic puns and wit.

This book cover and the description sets the stage of a chic lit, humourous even empowering type of novel and personal pov this set this novel up for me to have real high potential of fun embroiled with seeking solace in closure of some sort for the wrongs that had come to these four women at the hands of all different men, that unfortunately didn't quite seem to meet the mark. This was between 2-3 stars for me based on humour and the message of the novel taking it to 3 however unfortunately the sense of it being just a little too much and losing the sense of the story at times along with narration issues brought it to the 2 stars I felt I had to give it respectfully.

Four women who have all been scorned in various ways through life come back together later in life after being on theor own lives journeys to set the world to rights in means of revenge of the male species. Jo who dresses as a man so she can live as the males do to take men down, Matilda (Tilly) a novelist, Penny a TV presenter & Cressy an actress and mum.

The story seemed to not quite get to the crescendo of the purpose and seemed muddled with lots of puns and one liners of humour which of course is enjoyable in itself. There were definitely some areas of this book I enjoyed but on the flip side other parts I found more challenging for example the narration. The accents were just so off for me had it not been pointed out and stated that the character was Scottish I would have had no idea at all this was supposed to be a Scottish accent, and the irish sounded well not really very Irish either unfortunately, the various different accents made this a little off putting as an audio loosing the story at times because honestly at times i was unsure what area of the world the character waa supposed to be from which when absorbing a story it can be very off putting with so many different types of accents thrown in.

In part 3 particularly chapter 18 ~ It gets more interesting highlighting points that are true in our reality this is where I found the book gained some momentum. I enjoyed the underlying tones of bringing to light the way in which many women are objectified particularly in areas of work in all walks of life from being a mum to politicians, writing a novel, TV presenter or simply walking in to a supermarket or bar. The way in which women are spoken to looked upon still does happen albeit this book doesn't necessarily express this as well as it could the underlying meaning is there which I appreciate & respect the message. Not all men of the world are like this as we all know but unfortunately some are and its all about balance. I don't agree with speaking poorly of either sex male or female but to highlight where there are any injustices taking place takes courage, endurance, self-empowerment and quite simply self knowing so from this perspective I believe this needs to be acknowledged from all angles.

So to sum it all up for me The Revenge Club was funny it did make me laugh a little, I believe I did understand the underlying message the author is trying to portray and I definitely enjoyed the book from part 3 onwards the most. However sadly i felt the narration let it down a little and also simply that part 2 didn't really need to be in the book as I lost interest a little during this section and felt it was alot of repetition of similar puns, sayings and humour from the beginning of the book. Part 1 was like a good introduction with humour then part 3 brings the book back to its theme and purpose leading to the conclusion in part 4 even if it was a litle drawn out in getting to the conclusion.

Thank you to Head of Zeus Audiobooks via Netgalley for the opportunity to listen to this book in return for an honest open review.

I recently listened to "The Revenge Club" by Kathy Lette, narrated by Kathy Lette herself. I found it to be an intriguing and humorous tale of four women taking matters into their own hands. Matilda, Jo, Penny, and Cressy, all successful women in their own right, find themselves sidelined and underestimated in a world dominated by less-qualified men. Fuelled by frustration and a desire for justice, they unite to form the Revenge Club, where they plot diabolical retribution against those who have wronged them.
The premise of the book drew me in from the start, and the initial humour and light-hearted tone were quite enjoyable. However, as the story progressed, I found myself wishing for a more concise narrative, as there was a lot of unnecessary padding that detracted from the overall impact of the plot. While there were moments of genuine laughter and wit, the constant barrage of puns and jokes started to feel repetitive and tiresome, causing me to lose interest at times.
Despite the pacing issues, I did appreciate the character development in the latter part of the story, where each woman is forced to confront their shortcomings and insecurities. This added depth to the narrative and provided a more introspective look at the characters' motivations and actions. I found myself more engaged in the story during this section and wished that this introspection had been woven throughout the entire book.
As for the narration by Kathy Lette, I found it to be enjoyable, with Lette bringing a lively and energetic tone to the characters and their interactions.

This was just an ok read for me in all honesty. I was looking forward to a bit of lighthearted slightly older chick lit, and it just missed the mark for me.

Four old friends come together in their middle age just as life is taking its toll and they’ve become invisible, and as the title suggests they set up a revenge club, they’re seeking vengeance on all of the men who have put them down, cast them aside and lost them work. I enjoyed the premise, and initially it was fairly light hearted and funny, I’d have really liked the story to be a little bit more condensed, there was a lot of fluffing out. I had lost a great deal of interest by the halfway mark. There’s a lot of humour throughout and I definitely laughed a few times, but half of the book felt like the author was throwing in every pun she’d ever heard, and it became tiresome. I did enjoy the last 3rd of the story where the characters are each forced to have a good look at themselves. I just wish it’d tied together a bit sooner.

I enjoyed the narration for the most part, but I sincerely wish that some of the accents had either been left out of the text completely or the narrator had actually been able to do then (sorry, that feels so mean, but Scottish/irish accents definitely aren’t up there)

2.5 stars, rounded up.

I notice that a lot of the high reviews listed on here are for an extract of the book from the publisher?! I genuinely don’t mean to offend anyone but what’s the point in reviewing an extract other than to decide if you fancy reading the book or not? I don’t get it.

I appreciate the opportunity to leave an honest review for this title provided by Head of Zeus Audiobooks via NetGalley in return for an honest review.