Weekly Book Recs 30-2025: Female Rage
- Apollo Imperium
- Jul 25
- 4 min read
WEEKLY BOOK RECS: 6 book reviews and suggestions every week
Not every story has to be soft. Sometimes you want the kind of book where the girl’s not asking for permission. Sometimes she’s tired, done, or just absolutely fed up. That’s what this week is about: six books that let women be angry in ways that are loud, quiet, ugly, or sharp. Some of them burn everything down. Some of them just walk away. All of them show what it looks like when a woman stops holding it in. These aren’t comfort reads. But they’re honest, and sometimes that’s better.
1. “Bunny” by Mona Awad
⭐ 4.2/5
Tropes/Genre: Horror, satire, toxic female friendship
Description:
Samantha’s stuck in a tight-knit MFA program with a group of girls who call each other “Bunny”. Then they invite her into their world, and things get real weird, real fast.
Review:
It’s satirical, creepy, and completely off the rails. This book feels like it got lost between a cult movie and a nightmare journal. Female rage in this one is sugary, sick, and sharp as hell. Definitely one of those you either love or hate.
2. “Yellowface” by R.F. Kuang
⭐ 4.6/5
Tropes/Genre: Literary satire, commentary, unreliable narrator
Description:
June steals the manuscript of her more successful (and recently dead) Asian friend and publishes it as her own. What follows is a descent into viral success, paranoia, and self-justified lies. All told through June’s increasingly twisted POV.
Review:
It’s not violent rage, but it’s still loud. The book’s full of fury about publishing, racism, tokenism, and the way white women weaponize victimhood. June is awful. You’ll want to throw the book sometimes. That’s kind of the point.
3. “Iron Widow” by Xiran Jay Zhao
⭐ 4.7/5
Genre: Sci-fi /action
Description:
Zetian joins elite mech pilots to avenge her sister. She’ll learn to command the system, or burn it down first.
Review:
A queer rage-filled, futuristic take on desire and revenge. She’s not just angry—she’s rewriting a corrupt world. Reddit readers call it “anger times a thousand”
4. “The Female of the Species” by Mindy McGinnis
⭐ 4.4/5
Tropes/Genre: YA thriller, justice, vigilante
Description:
Alex’s sister was murdered, and no one did anything about it. Now she walks the line between quiet high school girl and someone who knows how to make people hurt. And she doesn’t always choose mercy.
Review:
This book goes dark. Alex is terrifying in the best way. There’s a lot here about violence, rape culture, and what it means to carry your rage instead of waiting for someone else to act. A YA book that pulls zero punches.
5. “A Dowry of Blood” by S.T. Gibson
⭐ 4.5/5
Tropes/Genre: Gothic horror, sapphic, polyamorous, vampire tale
Description:
Constanta is turned into a vampire bride and spends centuries trapped in a toxic, controlling relationship with a man who calls himself Dracula. This is her letter to him, written long after she’s decided she’s done being afraid.
Review:
This one is lyrical and deadly. It’s about reclaiming power, identity, and love after abuse. Female rage in a quiet, intimate form. If you want your stories poetic and bloody, this one is it.
6. “Carrie” by Stephen King
⭐ 4.3/5
Tropes/Genre: Classic horror, religious trauma, revenge
Description:
Carrie is a quiet high school girl with a terrifying mother and terrifying powers. After years of bullying and being pushed too far, she finally breaks. And when she does, no one is safe.
Review:
The original teen girl rage book. It still hits. Carrie is a tragedy, but it’s also a reckoning. If you’ve never read it and you want to see where a lot of this genre starts, give it a shot.
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