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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
Nah this wasn’t really for me. I began reading it but after three chapters I switched over to audio, which was great. The narrator for Sloane is perfection.
The book however, not for me like I said. Maggie’s part was very interesting since it was a trial to follow and I like that in books, the outcome however was disappointing but we live in a patriarchal world so what else to expect?
I wish that Sloane had more confidence to stand up for herself and not wanting to please her husband so much or not wanting to “make him look bad” when he’s the one who’s made awful choices.
Lina. This storyline was the worst in my opinion. I HATE (can’t stress that enough) when people start sleeping with others because their partner is not feeling like having sex everyday or at all anymore. Like sex is not everything in a relationship and I just get so disappointed when that seems more important than being a team together.
Also I felt like there was too much emphasis on being thin and shaved and looking your best. I understand that that is the world we live in today but I personally would prefer following people who don’t feel like they need to fit into the mold.
The book however, not for me like I said. Maggie’s part was very interesting since it was a trial to follow and I like that in books, the outcome however was disappointing but we live in a patriarchal world so what else to expect?
I wish that Sloane had more confidence to stand up for herself and not wanting to please her husband so much or not wanting to “make him look bad” when he’s the one who’s made awful choices.
Lina. This storyline was the worst in my opinion. I HATE (can’t stress that enough) when people start sleeping with others because their partner is not feeling like having sex everyday or at all anymore. Like sex is not everything in a relationship and I just get so disappointed when that seems more important than being a team together.
Also I felt like there was too much emphasis on being thin and shaved and looking your best. I understand that that is the world we live in today but I personally would prefer following people who don’t feel like they need to fit into the mold.
I think the underlying message was nice but I found the execution very awkward. There was little dept and a lot of sexual descriptions, too much for my liking. There was also a lack, let’s so absolutely no, diversity in this book that talks about three white privileged women! All in all, this was not for me!
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
The publisher emphasizes that this is a feat of journalistic writing, an investigative accomplishment, and yet I felt the whole time like I was reading a series of very long People Magazine articles. Taddeo tells the stories of these three women with a respectable clear-eyed understanding, but couples it with a doomsday tone that undermines any independent analysis she could have applied. The book is crammed full of strange, intentionally opaque lines that are clearly meant to provide some kind of meaningful insight into the plight of women wrestling with their desire, but instead end up reading like a grab bag of sentences the author has always wanted to write and shoehorned into this book. I wanted to like this book; I wanted it to teach me something, or at least illuminate something about the condition of women and their wants and needs. But there is nothing new here. Taddeo draws no conclusions, makes no arguments, offers no solutions. While readable and mildly interesting, this book feels like a huge missed opportunity.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
reflective
fast-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Car accident
Moderate: Incest
I couldn’t get into the writing style.