Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

3 reviews

oywiththepoodles's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Rape, Sexual assault, Car accident, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Grief, Chronic illness, Alcoholism, and Suicidal thoughts

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Car accident, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Fatphobia, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide attempt, Vomit, Addiction, Alcohol, Blood, Death, Death of parent, Pedophilia, Pregnancy, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Body shaming, Cancer, Medical content, Medical trauma, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic friendship, Violence, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexual content, and Sexual assault

leslee's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

This was not an easy read. I would not go as far as to say that this book triggered me but it was difficult to get through and yet I could not put it down. This is a book that made me think about womanhood as not a prison but as a liminal space. “Three Women” has a limited scope - it primarily focuses on white women and their relationships with men. There are fragments about their relationships (or lack thereof) with other women woven into the narratives of the book, but as a reader I wanted so much more of that. I found myself wanting to know less about the men that they loved and more about the women that the titular three women had been betrayed by. I think that could have spoken volumes about female desires.

Overall - I enjoyed the book. It made me think. It made me want to ask questions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Death of parent, Death, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Rape

Minor: Chronic illness