Joyce E. Salisbury

36 Great Women Before 1400

Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals

Lacy W

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I am going to apologize for the lack of trigger warnings. I’m going to be honest, I totally forgot to take notes on this audiobook. It was 17 hours long and I listened to it while I played Overwatch so I didn’t exactly have time to write down every trigger warning that I heard. So, for the sake of this review, imagine every single awful thing that could possibly happen to a woman and I’m pretty sure it happened in this book. 

Anyway, this is going to be brief because while I was tidying up my goodreads, I came across the realization that I never wrote a review on this audiobook. So that’s what I am doing now. Writing this review for an audiobook I don’t quite remember. 

Okay, so this is about 36 different women throughout history that changed history. While I appreciated that this book was about women, if I’m being honest, it really wasn’t. Sure the women mentioned did great things but their accomplishments felt overshadowed by the men in their lives. The lecturer had to spend about 10 minutes of the chapter explaining the men in these women’s lives and what they did so the women could do greater things. 

Overall, I did learn a lot. I wish it wasn’t so religious though. A lot of the women did great things in the name of religion and I honestly just don’t vibe with that. Kudos to them though. They changed history and it sucks we don’t learn more about them. However, I just don’t think this audiobook was right for me.

Warriors, Queens, and Intellectuals 36 Great Women Before 1400

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