Reviews tagging 'Incest'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

34 reviews

okfrog's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

Had a long convo with Zohra after I finished this and also watched clips of the trial on YouTube. I am feeling like this is hopeless and women truly are treated as second class citizens. and we need to protect the children!! :( Cannot believe he is still teaching and coaching girl's golf

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Rape, Child abuse, and Suicide

Minor: Incest

jas_kv's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Car accident, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual violence

Minor: Dysphoria and Incest

leedom's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Eating disorder, Rape, and Pedophilia

Moderate: Body shaming, Addiction, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Drug use, Grief, Incest, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, and Suicide

clephairy's review against another edition

challenging dark medium-paced

2.5

i found the premise and motivation of the book really interesting and promising. sadly it fell short. i think that stories told were certainly insightful but i think they werent told with the intentional nuance of liberating desire. it was not at all seperated from men and patriarchal concepts of conforming to gendered ideals. however i think the story concerning aaron knodel was not at all told with the particular compassion nor understanding that it deserved, as a 17yr old when reading about a teacher student relationship with someone my age i am appalled by the inclusion of graphic depictions of the assault that took place. furthermore the internalised misogyny throughout the whole scene in court was not cool and fun or anything that should be celebrated. 

im glad people felt carthasis and do not want to take that away from anyone. heal in the ways you can. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Sexual harassment

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Car accident, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying and Incest

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexism, Misogyny, Mental illness, Infidelity, Grief, Fatphobia, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Incest

luelle_'s review against another edition

challenging medium-paced

4.0

This was a really tough read. I thought I'd fly through it but I just couldn't... It's the truth of the thing. It's important, but read with care. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Death of parent

Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Self harm, Rape, Infidelity, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Incest and Pedophilia

groovywitch's review against another edition

dark sad medium-paced

2.0

Taddeo claims to be writing about women’s desires, but actually ends up focusing upon those of men. Considering this, she unsurprisingly comes to zero conclusions regarding women and their desires. She also states how unfortunate it is that we only hear the stories of privileged white women, but makes no effort to counteract that, as she writes only of middle class white women in hetero relationships. I also feel she inappropriately handles the subject of sexual violence, somewhat sensationalising Maggie’s storyline. The book seems to be considered by many as ~uncomfortable~ but in an ~edgy and cool~ way, but I just found it plain uncomfortable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Rape, and Incest

twilightscone's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

i really loved this book. it was raw and emotional, and the writing was (in my opinion) beautiful without being pretentious. i didn’t give it five stars because some of the sexual moments felt a bit… almost too graphic (specifically regarding Maggie.) though they were truthful and beautiful in their realness, i think some of those moments could’ve been left alluded to rather than flat out described. that’s the authors choice, though. it was also incredibly white, though the author did acknowledge that over the course of the book. overall, a beautiful read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, and Sexual content

Moderate: Eating disorder

Minor: Incest

lexicon929's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

Moderate: Death of parent and Incest

milliebrierley's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Drug use, Incest, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship