Ruthless Women by Melanie Blake

  

 Book Review: Ruthless Women by Melanie Blake

When power, drama, and revenge collide, these women don't play by the rules.

Let me start by saying that Ruthless Women is exactly what it sounds like and then some. If you love stories filled with ambition, secrets, power plays, and unapologetically fierce female characters… this book will be your new guilty pleasure.

I picked this up thinking it’d be a casual drama read, but oh wow, I wasn’t ready for the level of chaos and confidence packed into these pages. Set in the glamorous yet cutthroat world of a TV soap opera, Falcon Bay, the story follows a group of women who are done being overlooked, underestimated, or controlled by men, bosses, or even each other.

 

My Thoughts

Reading Ruthless Women made me think a lot about how women are so often expected to be soft, forgiving, or polite even when they’ve been wronged. But in this book, every woman owns her darkness, her ambition, her sexuality, and she doesn't apologise for it.

It's messy, dramatic, sometimes savage, and I loved every second of it.

This book reminded me that being ruthless doesn’t always mean being cruel. Sometimes it just means refusing to stay silent. Refusing to be stepped on. Refusing to shrink.

 

 What I Loved

• The women are fierce, flawed, and completely unforgettable.
  They aren’t “likeable” in the usual soft way. They’re bold, demanding, powerful and yes, sometimes vicious. But that’s what made them feel real and magnetic to me.
• It felt like watching a wild, high-drama series.
  Every chapter felt like an episode. Affairs, secrets, lies, betrayals, this book had me gasping and whispering “omg” under my breath way too often.
• Revenge tasted deliciously sweet.
  There’s something incredibly satisfying about watching women take back their power. These characters didn’t just survive; they fought back, and they did it with style.

 

 

 Final Thoughts

If you’re into bold characters, drama that never stops, and women who burn the rulebook, Ruthless Women is the perfect escape. It’s over-the-top in all the best ways, and it’ll make you cheer, cringe, and maybe even question how far you’d go for power or justice.

Highly recommend for fans of Revenge, Dynasty, or Big Little Lies.