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moiracampbell23's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Bullying, Car accident, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, and Suicide
Moderate: Misogyny, Self harm, and Suicidal thoughts
Minor: Cancer and Cursing
clephairy's review against another edition
2.5
im glad people felt carthasis and do not want to take that away from anyone. heal in the ways you can.
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
3.0
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
asbat's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Rape, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, and Adult/minor relationship
Moderate: Death of parent and Grief
Minor: Panic attacks/disorders and Suicide
janhasread's review against another edition
4.0
This was really well written, sometimes you have to remind yourself that it is actually a nonfiction books. This makes it an easy intro to nonfiction as I’ve rarely read any in the past. And I thoroughly enjoyed it so I can’t wait for the next.
The main theme I took from this book, which focuses on the sex lives of three women, is that the men in our life are a big part of our lives. In this women we saw how women deal with the men in their lives. How they fall in love, how they come to be with these men, and how they eventually see the worst parts of these men at times. We also how they deal with seeing the worst in the men they know.
My only gripe was the sample size being obviously so low. It cannot possibly reflect “American Women” as the description says. And there was no diversity in these three women. They were all white. So this may be the experience of these three white women in American, but it definitely cannot be applied to more than them.
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Grief, Sexual content, and Infidelity
jamieleepilk's review against another edition
2.0
Going in I thought this would be a straight forward non-fiction look at female desire, focusing on the lives of three women. What I got was a book that is three women's stories regurgitated in a way that makes them read like fiction, the writing itself was emotive, raw and extremely well crafted but it just fell a little flat? I was unsure as the point of the book as I didn't seem to actually be about female desire at all. It was hard to read a lot of this book seen as it contains a lot of trauma, assault and abuse.
I feel like the goal for this book was brilliant but the execution less so. I would have probably much preferred it to be more like the Prologue and the Epilogue, reading the Prologue I thought that this was what I was in for and I was excited but sadly for me it did go downhill from there.
I will say that I can see Taddeo's writing talent and I will most likely be picking up her fictional novel that is out later this year to see if that is better suited to what I was after. I'm gutted that this fell flat for me after all the sparkling reviews and recommendations.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Blood
devikapha's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Toxic relationship
holliejoy's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship
kcreedon's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Grief, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Car accident
nicolaparty's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Grief, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Rape
Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Incest, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts