The Real Shark's Tank: The Truth About Online Dating for Women

Eaten Alive: The Truth About Online Dating for Women breezily exposes the shortcomings of online dating for women. (The men can write their own book.) The author got so fed up with online dating she was ready to get a tattoo on her face, like Mike Tyson, and be done with it. Instead, she decided to try to figure out what it was about online dating that made it such a perfect storm of bad dates and disappointment for her and her friends.

The author delves into fascinating research about what makes players tick, how to avoid them, and why the online dating websites are their own personal safari kingdoms.

L.V. Krause uncovers a myriad of fascinating tidbits, like the weight online dating men prefer, the lopsided percentages of women versus men on the dating websites, and what scientists think of all those magical matching formulas.

Krause mixes in plenty of her own comic online dating life—including showing up for jury duty to find that the prosecutor was a past online date. She decided she needed her own Sex and the City group of girlfriends and emailed other women on the same dating website to form a supportive group in their beachside Florida city. As one of her dates complained, "You're unionizing!"

Eaten Alive was written for every woman who's ever online dated, except for the two women in the United States who found love on their first online date.