Cannot wait tonread the full story, absolutely brilliant sample, I am on a tour with love book tours on this so look forward to completing the full book and sharing a full review going forward

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Release date 19th June!

Absolutely hilarious—just like Sophie Gravia’s other books! As a Glasgow gal myself, I truly appreciated all the brilliant Scottish nods throughout—Wunderbar being a personal favourite. Just genius.

The story had me laughing out loud from start to finish, with characters you can’t help but root for and moments that perfectly capture the chaotic joy of female friendship. It’s smart, cheeky, and oh-so-relatable.

Run, don’t walk, to get your hands on this one!

Huge thanks to @sophiegraviaauthor, @zaffrebooks, and Bonnier Books for the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

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Initially, I loved the book and I got over halfway before finally calling it quits. I wish I hadn't bothered with the offensive, immature tripe, quite frankly.

The introduction was really strong and I found Ella's narration funny and easy to read.
The story follows three friends working in marketing - Ella, the single-by-choice main character, Zola, the tech genius who's happily engaged, and Katy, the friend who falls hard and fast, but keeps getting screwed over by fuckboys. Tired of seeing Katy messed around by dickheads on the Glasgow dating scene, they plan to launch the "Dicktionary Club", a website dedicated to rating men in and around Glasgow. It makes sense, given Katy's horrendous mid-sex dumping. I understood why they wanted to get their own back, and I felt awful for Katy because who the fuck breaks up with someone they're still inside?
Gravia describes it as "TripAdvisor for men."
I enjoy reading multiple point-of-views stories, so have triple narration was fine. It was odd to have one POV in first person while the others are in third, though. I think it would flew better if they were all the same.
As I said, it initially seemed lighthearted and easygoing.

I feel like the author wanted to write 2025's answer to Sex and The City. You know, women being wonderfully candid about sex without judgement or patriarchal input. That is not what she wrote.

I started to feel uncomfortable fairly quickly. Whilst trying to market an energy drink to a local gym, Ella and Katy engage some local women to write reviews for the club.

The way that Ella focuses on their appearance made me feel really uncomfortable. She mentions, for absolutely no reason, that they "all seemed to have had some work done, and I wasn't sure if it made them look older or younger."
There's absolutely no need for this random misogyny to be dropped into the narration and I'm honestly surprised that it made it in at all. It's jarring and out of place, and her follow-up thought that they're all beautiful in their own way felt really hollow to read.
Coupled with the fact that Ella regularly infantilises the women she's getting huge amounts of adult content from, I was feeling pretty uneasy.

I convinced myself that I was overreacting and I tried to push on with the read because I was still enjoying the premise, and I hate leaving a book unfinished.

Unfortunately, it continued to go downhill for me when Katy went on a date with someone with a bigger head than she'd imagined. Katy and Ella are both going on dates at the same cafe, albeit at different tables, and Zola goes along for moral support.
When Katy's date arrives, the first thing Ella says is his head is "fucking huge. Like, monumentally noticeable." The next sentence mentions again that it's massive and, shock horror, it's shiny.
"Poor Ali must have photoshopped his bonce smaller..."
"If you shrunk the noggin or put an extra-large hat on him"
"She most definitely got the temu version."
"Eyes still spanning over Ali's vast dome." Because his head is big. Did you know that Ali has a big head? I don't know if it was mentioned enough, but he's got a huuuuuge head.
Katy, Zola and Ella laugh hysterically and start texting each other to mock him for his appearance, at one point even comparing him to Skrek. They're vile about him, and Katy absolutely trashes him in her review, all because his head is big. Ok, yes, online dating can be a minefield and I've been on bad dates, but writing that a grown woman was crying with laughter over it was ridiculous and vapid.
I wish I'd listened to my gut and put the book down there, because it just kept going even further downhill.

It felt like Gravia thought body shaming was OK because it's male characters she's doing it to.

Katy obviously doesn't go on a second date with Ali, and there are more head puns to put up with over the next few pages, because there's clearly nothing funnier than body shaming.
Her next experience is with Harry, for whom she entirely changes herself. She pretends to enjoy football and Rod Stewart because he likes those things, and of course, the basis for any healthy relationship is to pretend you like everything they like instead of being your own person.

Katy and Harry develop and incredibly intense (but incredibly fake) bond over the space of a fortnight that culminates in him professing his love for her after two weeks. Two weeks. These are adults, and yet we're expected to believe this is normal behaviour? Honestly, I was so concerned that he was love-bombing her that his actual indiscretion makes Katy seem like a shallow arsehole when she finally reveals it.

After their first night in bed together, Katy storms into the office, absolutely furious. The horrible betrayal Harry has inflicted on her?
He's got a small penis.
Quick, let's slag him off on the website, ladies! Lets reveal an intensely personal detail about him because he "lied." Never mind that Katy lied first or anything. No, of course, Harry is in the wrong for not telling her about his small dick.
Cue yet more body shaming and hysterics from all three women.

Ella was just as frustrating to read. She's been single for three years and insists she's fine with it, even though she's not. She's extremely distrusting of anyone outside the three main characters, and she absolutely despises men. I get that the men she's seen Katy date are terrible and her ex was a dick, but her internal monologue is very two-dimensional. She's either super distrusting or she's horny. That's it.
She is pursued by the mysterious millionaire, Philip Khan. After a chance meeting, Khan decides he's interested in Ella and starts pushing for a date.
It's weird.
Ella's clearly disinterested in dating him, but he either ignores her signs, or he's too acclimatised to the Glaswegian climate to pick up on her frosty reception.
At one point, obviously thinking he's being charming and disarming, he shows up at her office after hours, totally unannounced. Ella, for good reason, finds this incredibly uncomfortable. I don't know what happens with the rest of their story because I stopped reading at about page 287.
However, Ella's constant stream of paranoia is very dull to read, and doesn't really add anything to the story apart from confusion. I'm supposed to believe that the same woman who gives out fake names lest she be stalked is also willing to get into Philip's car without location sharing with her friends? Nope.
I'm guessing they get together because he proves he's actually a Good GuyTM.

Zola doesn't get as much page time as the other two, but when she does, she goes from happily engaged, to resenting her fiancee, to outright cheating on him, to breaking up in about 4 interactions.
Look, I understand wanting more from your partner, and nobody likes coming home to a flat that stinks of farts, but the 180 her character does is really contrived. It's also incredibly predictable.
From the second Zola volunteers to answer Ella's Tinder messages for her, it's blatant that she's going to end up cheating. There's absolutely zero surprise there.

For some reason, despite all this I kept reading. Why? I don't actually know. So what made me want to throw my tablet across the room? What made me so fucking angry I never want to read Sophie Gravia's writing again?

It was the moment when Katy's latest date reveals that he's attracted to men and women and Katy is equal parts biphobic and fetishistic.
First she's totally turned on, and then she's taken aback and stutters out "Oh ... sorry. You're bi? You're bisexual?" As if it's a shock that he's not straight.
THEN she has the nerve to think to herself "I'd say you were a greedy bastard, Dominic!" Hardy fucking har.
It's just so clever of Gravia to resort to the age-old stereotype that bi+ people are greedy. Nobody's ever written that before!
So original!

If you're going to write offensive, dated rubbish like that, at least have the courtesy to not publish it during Pride month, hmm?
The greedy line made me so angry that it brought me to tears. It was disgusting, uncalled for and wildly bigoted and it came out of nowhere.

As a bisexual woman who has been subject to those exact kind of comments before, I am not about to let people write that way without at least trying to address it. She doesn't give Katy any sort of self-reflection on her twattitude. There's no condemnation of her ignorance and that's unacceptable.

I'll be perfectly happy never reading another word Gravia writes, thank you very much.

I’m a huge fan of Sophie Gravia and her previous books and the dicktionary 🍆 did not disappoint!

This book will make you laugh, cry and swoon all at once. The friendship between Ella, Zola and Katy is so relatable and there are so many similar conversations in my own girl group chats! Being a fellow Glasgow girl, I feel like this book has nailed what the dating scene is like in glasgow and I always enjoy reading about places that I have been to many times! You really get the full picture and almost feel part of the story.

The ending was perfect and I hope there will be another book in this series in the future! The subtle nods to Sophie Gravia’s other series, a Glasgow kiss, were brilliant and maybe a future cross over with Zara and the girls is on the cards!

Can someone please take inspiration from this book make the dicktionary come alive, it’s just what the Glasgow dating scene is missing!

Thanks to NetGalley, Bonnier books, Zaffre and Sophie Gravia for this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

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This book had me howling. The Dicktionary Club is hilarious, sharp, and surprisingly heartfelt, a perfectly chaotic (in the best way) blend of dating drama and female friendship. Think group chat energy meets vengeance with a vengeance. 🫶💕

Ella, Katy and Zola are the kind of ride-or-die besties we all need. From dating disasters to launching a website that publicly reviews Scotland’s worst men (yes really), their bond is fierce, funny, and SO relatable. I laughed out loud, swooned, and yes… launched my Kindle into a cushion at one point. IYKYK!! 😏

This isn’t just a romcom — it’s a celebration of friendship, boundaries, and refusing to settle for mediocre. The dialogue is whip-smart, the spice is flirty, and the pacing? Chef’s kiss, this book is slow burn done right. 🥵

Sophie Gravia just gets it. - Can we get a Netflix series please?

Absolutely recommend!! 💕🍆

What can I say? I just absolutely loved The Dicktionary Club!

The perfect feel good, relatable, laugh a minute, ecaspist read. I literally lol'd all the way through!

Three girlfriends working in marketing have had it with the Glasgow dating scene. They've cried in the work loos too often. They've consoled each other one time too many. And now they are taking matters into their own hands - enter The Dicktionary Club. They decide to start up their own website where women can review their dates and save others from heartache. A genius idea right? What can possibly go wrong? Well, as it turns out, quite a lot, and for some surprising reasons!

I adored Ella, Katy and Zolas friendship. The characters feel real and are well developed. Each one is so relatable from Ella who has her barriers up, Katy who just wants to be loved and Zola who is in a long term relationship that feels like its stagnating.

I was completely invested and ripped through this - it's fast paced and told through the pov of the three women, who each have their own distinct voice and character. I couldn't put it down as we lurch from one calamity to the next.

It's a little bit sweet but it's not cheesy, it's a little bit spicy but it's not cringey and it's very funny! The perfect summer read, with a punch of girl power - we are enough and we deserve more! There's hope for us yet!

The ending had me grinning from ear to ear and I hope it means there might be a follow up?!

I really recommend this one, honestly it's brilliant - the best fun I've had reading a book in a while.

I'm rushing to get my hands on Sophie's other books now - new steadfast fan here!!

This was a really quick read for me I done it in one day and I just couldn’t put it down. I have honestly never resonated with a book so much in my life. The dating scene now a days is just horrific and this book absolutely shows the real life struggles with modern dating apps etc. Ella Katy and Zola are girls I’d want to be friends with, the support they have for each other is unmatched. I loved each character and getting an insight to their life throughout. I could relate to Ella straight away she is me when it comes to dating hate all men 😂 hopefully I can find the happy ending that the girls did eh👀😂

Another amazing book by Sophie! Three very likeable female characters who are fed up being mistreated by men and decide to set up The Dicktionary Club, where men can be rated and reviewed for other women! It did remind me of a certain Facebook group (IYKYK) but definitely made me laugh. Multiple POVs (which I love!), excellent characters and a book that will have you laughing out loud! I knew the places described in the book as well which definitely helped in picturing the scenes. If you want a book that will have you giggling and not want to put down, this is the one for you!

So glad Sophie has taken us back to Glasgow to the familiar places with all the laughs we’ve come to love! The best first chapter and I cannot wait to see what Ella, Katy and Zola get up to!

Updated after reading the entire book;
These girls are people I need in my life! I want to be their friend too! I love that they’re all so very different yet bound by an incredible friendship bond, Ella who highlights the women who don’t fit the stereotypical norm of wanting to be a wife and a mother, she wants neither. Zola being in a lacklustre relationship and feeling a lack of excitement. And finally.. Katy falling in love with every man she sets her eyes on! Great character building although it would’ve been nice to get to know the girls on a deeper level, more history, and how they got to where they are!

Being back in Glasgow was a great plus side, being from the west coast of Scotland and reading about places you go to is great, also really helps to build that picture, feed the imagination and allow you to step inside the book, or Glasgow city centre! Short chapters with a multiple POV, the main POV being from Ella.

Alongside being hilarious and spicy, Sophie really delves into the existential dating crisis out there, relationship dramas and true friendships!

Another laugh a page from Sophie! Read it and read it as fast as you can! Smut, sarcasm and shite men…

Received chapter one via NetGalley and OMG I can't wait to read the rest! I can already tell this will be a fun read.

Loved the dedication!

I thought chapter 1 in the description of this book meant the whole book was part 1 of a series. The characters are fun and savvy and the theme is great, from this chapter id want to read on,

I thought I’d struck gold to get this book but I was only teased with the first chapter - which - I want more of, Ella, Zola and Katy seem like the kinda girls you need to support you. I love the glimpse of comedy and girl power and think thisll be such a fun and enjoyable read.

More please?

I got a little chill reading this, It really touches a little bit of home when I read the chapter.
Coming from an office background and working closely with my bestie we have both been in this position as many other women have crying in the bathroom unable to face work and as friends we are always there to pick up the pieces and give that push to one another to get out there an try again
I am excited for this book and where it takes these girls and the website. I can’t wait for the women to take dating public and exposing the men for doing what they do to us women.

This first chapter makes me really want to read the rest of the book! I love that there is already a strong friendship bond between the 3 main characters!

Ohh how I love Sophie’s books! Being Scottish I can so relate!! I need more!!!! Amazing!! Please write more and more I need to hear lots more Scottish girls love stories or humour and romance!

Good start to a story! Can't wait to see what's in store for Ella Katy and Zola. Have preordered a copy

In today's world of online dating this has the potential to be utterly relevant and totally relatable. Hooked by the end of the first chapter, I would love to know what Katy, Zola and Ella get up to next!

The writing is flawless and characters are intriguing. The book is really compelling and has such a promising beginning. Do you like badass characters, if you do, read this book. Other than the title, the book will be great. So many things are happening and characters are up to something. Their plan sounds both fun and dangerous. Author has created such a unique characters with unique backstories. You will find yourself immersed in their world. Well, pick this book if you are in mood to read something different from usual reads. Thanks to Netgalley and Publisher.

What a great start to a book! I just know I’m going to love this one. I have, and will always be a Sophie Gravia fangirl. I’m not sure if I can wait for June to read the whole book. Fingers crossed it will get released on NetGalley before hand 🤞

This was a great intro to the book and has definitely made me want to pick up the full book when it’s released