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Ghost Lover: Stories by Lisa Taddeo

5 reviews

alliereads_'s review

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emotional reflective sad

3.5

Lisa Taddeo gives a voice to the unfeminine feelings and urges women are taught to keep to ourselves - negativity, jealousy, cruelty; to be exploitative, feel disconnected to motherhood, question your mortality. While I enjoyed each of these stories individually, as a collection they did feel repetitive, and reading them all at once left me feeling overall sad and drab. 
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lilabachere's review against another edition

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3.75

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crimsonreadlips's review

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challenging dark sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

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suhmown's review

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medium-paced

1.0

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travelseatsreads's review against another edition

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dark emotional slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I absolutely head over heels loved Animal so I jumped at the chance to read Ghost Lover. Unfortunately, while I still adored Lisa Taddeo's prose and writing style I just couldn't connect with any of these short stories and it just didn't do anything for me. Without a doubt she is an outstanding artist who has the innate ability of weaving some gritty and raw narratives, I just wish for Ghost Lover she moved away from the rich privileged white female.

9 individual stories told in Taddeo's sharp, unrelenting and gritty style, evocative but just not gripping.
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