Lilibet Bombshell's Reviews > There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish

You know when you’re watching a scary movie and you find yourself saying, “Don’t go up the stairs,” because you know what’s waiting for the final girl up there? Repeat that sentiment and innumerable amount of times and add a great deal of indignant revulsion for what happened to the women who were the victims of “Ethan Schuman” and that’s a large part of what it felt like to read this book.

The rest of it? It doesn’t feel like justice, but real life never quite does when it comes to injustices committed against women.

Reading the first half of this book had me nauseated as I immersed myself in how three women walked right into this trap almost any woman could have walked into and were, at first, psychologically manipulated and then emotionally abused by a sociopath who seemed to not want anything from but their attention and didn’t seem to care how much they were hurting. “Ethan Schuman” managed to break these women down even though they’d never even met.

The rest of the book is an angry and vulnerable look into how these three women tried (and ultimately failed) to bring the real human behind the “Ethan Schuman” persona to account for what had been done to them and many other women and how that person kept trying to keep and/or bring these women back into orbit.

When all else failed, one of them wrote a book. It’s really good.

Thanks go to Grand Central Publishing for providing me with a finished copy of this title via their influencer program. All thoughts, opinions, views, and ideas expressed herein are mine and mine alone. Thank you!

File Under: 5 Star Review/Memoir/Nonfiction/True Crime