Reviews tagging 'Sexual content'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

180 reviews

2hermione4's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, and Vomit

kaylaannsreads's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad tense medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Sexual content

Moderate: Suicide, Alcoholism, Car accident, and Toxic relationship

idasophieluise's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Infidelity, and Death

geraldineleyendo's review against another edition

tense fast-paced

2.75

I've changed the rating of this book a few times - I appreciate its role exploring *true stories* of desire; but as a novel-like book falls flat for me, with some of the explicit sexual scenes going for too long and some other important/interesting aspects of the stories being ignored or brushed off way too quickly. The creative writing is great but all those years of immersive research leading to just this compilation feel a bit disappointing. 
 
It's certainly thought-inducing and although I enjoy the mixed order of the stories, I feel the whole structure lacks intention. Why were the stories told in that order? Is there something truly connecting them? (other than the very obvious "sex stories told by women"). I feel the author fails in giving strong answers to that which overall made the book less enjoyable for me. Some themes will stay with me for a long time but only because of their importance, not because the author threaded them particularly well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual content

Moderate: Infidelity and Sexual assault

Minor: Eating disorder and Incest

abisnail564's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

Loved this. Challenging and thought-provoking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Death, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Addiction, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Sexism, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

emma_ekb's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad fast-paced

4.5

beautiful, haunting and raw, if at times a bit convoluted. went on a little too long. i loved the narrative format, made nonfiction so readable 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Sexual content and Sexism

Minor: Rape and Sexual assault

esther_richards's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault and Sexual content

Minor: Addiction

kim_ng's review against another edition

emotional medium-paced

2.5

This book was recommended to me and I did not know what it was about when I picked it up and started reading it. However I did not expect reading about three women being sexually controlled by the men in their lives.

Maggie's story

about the relationship with her teacher and going to trial against him

pulled me in the most, but it was also the most difficult to read because - as with Sloane and Lina - the sexual acts are described very explicitly. 

Interesting to read and I don't regret reading it, but not a book I would normally pick up to read.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent, Suicide, Stalking, Alcoholism, and Car accident

golelifsu's review against another edition

dark emotional funny informative reflective sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicide and Death of parent

Minor: Alcoholism and Incest

gstefanko's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective tense medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Infidelity, Suicide, and Eating disorder