The Female Brain - The Book That Probably Isn't For You

If you're a woman who's looking for affirmation that your hormones are going crazy and that your mood swings are not intentional, then this is the book for you. If you're a man who's trying to justify his girlfriend/fiancé/wife's erratic behavior, then this book is also for you. However, if you're a teenager looking for an interesting read or any other type of person, this book might not be for you.

Brizendine's purpose in writing this book was to educate readers about the biology of a female's brain as well as prepare (mostly) women for their futures through the different hormonal changes in their lives. She achieves this through exhausting repetition of ideas and a lot of scientific words. These made it difficult to become invested in the book since I had heard several similar things at the beginning, which made the book become repetitive and redundant quickly. Her anecdotes that she included at the beginning of chapters and throughout seemed so extreme that it made me almost skeptical of what she was saying because only a small population of females have such extreme effects to changes in hormone levels. I found these distracted from the overall message and detracted from the readability of the book.

If you haven't already noticed, I'm not too thrilled about this book. Unless you fit the criteria from the beginning of this post or are just really bored, then you will enjoy this book. But for anyone else I would not recommend it.