Murder Bimbo by Rebecca Novack
Published: February 10, 2026 by Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
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Synopsis:
A 32-year-old sex worker has just killed extremist political hopeful Meat Neck. Holed up in an off-the-grid cabin in the woods, she now has only two days, her wits and a high-speed internet connection to save her own life.
Her best bet is to reach out to the wildly popular feminist investigative podcast Justice for Bimbos. In a hastily-typed series of emails, the newly-minted "Murder Bimbo" explains how she was recruited and then trained by a cabal of code-named US agents to take out Meat Neck.
But, when she starts a new set of emails, this time addressed to her ex-girlfriend, we begin to realize that Murder Bimbo might not be the unsuspecting cog she claims to be.
In a time where 'truth' is more flexible than ever before - who really is Murder Bimbo? And what will she do next?
Rating:
Review:
Maybe I would have liked this book more if I hadn’t already read and LOVED Trad Wife. Instead, this book felt like a less well executed story about a similar topic. It tried to harness the same female rage, but it wasn’t as well done.
This book is split into three parts. Each part tells the same story but from different perspectives. In theory this is a really good idea. In practice, it made the story feel repetitive. Essentially the book was telling me the exact same story multiple times with only slight differences. This caused my attention to wander and it was difficult to stay engaged.
The protagonist was well written and I enjoyed her narrative. She is sharp and witty. Blunt and chaotic. You get the sense over and over again that she will only tell you the truth if it suits her ends. A non-binary sex worker who because a political assassin is unique and it was enjoyable to hear her story. Often times unreliable narrators are overdone, but this book struck the right balance in my opinion.
The layover to the currently political climate was too on the nose. It is painfully obvious what the political figure we’re going for is and I would have preferred for the story to be less targeted. I was hoping to be able to imagine numerous political figures in that space but because it is such an accurate layover, there is only one. It felt limiting and doesn’t allow the reader to interpret the political message. Trying to couch the obvious was annoying.
In the end this was an entertaining book with an entertaining protagonist, but it just isn’t interesting enough to tell it three times.