If you're like me, and interested in understanding the context behind the common pop culture term, you can breeze through this slim novel quickly. It's clever, entertaining, and well-paced, and definitely worth a read.

When Joanna Eberhart and her family move to Stepford, she can't help but notice that all the Stepford Wives are weirdly really, really excited about housework. As the other free-thinking women in the town begin to morph into dusting, waxing, and washing fiends (always with the eerily similar line about how they suddenly realized they were being "selfish"), Joanna begins to wonder what could be causing the change. She strongly suspects it has something to do with the Men's Association, which her husband joined right after they moved in (much to her feminist dismay).

The plot is simple but well-paced. The reader finds themselves piecing things together right along with the protagonist. Unlike some others, I didn't really find the book that scary, but I did enjoy the sinister undertones. I guess I'm the kind of person to get more angry than scared when presented with rotten characters with sinister motives. Just throw me into the book and we'll see how long this whole thing carries on!

There's honestly not much to say about this book- it's short and to the point, but once you untangle the mystery of what is happening to the Stepford wives, what they used to be like, and who is behind it...it leaves you lots of meat to mentally chew on when you're done with it.