Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo

35 reviews

greatexpectations77's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

The writing style(s) of this book are so interesting, and I was really hooked on everyone's stories. And goddammit was I full of rage at the North Dakota one. I think what works really well in this book is that you may start it thinking that you wouldn't have anything in common with the three women, but as you dig deeper, you feel like they're speaking part of you. We all desire and usually, we're blocked and hurt. I'll be thinking for a long time about the advice that Ms. Taddeo's mother gave her in the last portion of the book. I think she's right, and that sucks.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Body shaming, Infidelity, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Grief, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Abandonment, Car accident, Death, and Death of parent

Moderate: Injury/injury detail, Sexual assault, Classism, Mental illness, and Rape

eemadeeberry's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Infidelity, Cursing, Car accident, Suicidal thoughts, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Alcoholism, Fatphobia, Grief, Mental illness, Death of parent, Misogyny, and Suicide

Minor: Abandonment, Incest, Medical content, and Racism

alexisbashta's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Rape, Grief, Sexual assault, and Pedophilia

mia_merrill's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Death of parent, Vomit, Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Addiction, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Alcohol

Moderate: Grief, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, and Body shaming

Minor: Terminal illness, Cancer, and Panic attacks/disorders

einortnamensheimat's review against another edition

dark sad tense slow-paced

1.5

Ich fand die Geschichte einfach nur obszön und hatte zu viele beschriebene Sexszene. 
Die Beschreibungen hinterlassen einen faden Nachgeschmack und ein sehr schlechtes Gefühl. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Vomit, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Child abuse, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Gaslighting, Rape, Mental illness, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Sexual content, and Suicide

Moderate: Grief, Body shaming, and Vomit

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

ktbug711's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Car accident, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Grief, Sexual harassment, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Rape

saracatalyst's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Suicide, Eating disorder, and Sexual content

Moderate: Mental illness, Car accident, Toxic relationship, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Grief, and Alcohol

Minor: Cancer, Dementia, Death of parent, and Incest

sydapel's review against another edition

dark informative reflective slow-paced

2.0

While I understand the intention behind this book and what it's trying to convey, it does so through so narrow of a lens it's downright disrespectful. With a minor exception, these women identify as white, cisgender and heterosexual, with descriptions of sexual desires that only differ in their minutae, and always come back to whatever man they are "in love" with. There's very little attempt to unpack the abuse (mainly emotional, but borderline physical) done to them or the systems of patriarchy that led to this, in favor of in depth descriptions of intimate encounters with, again, one, maybe two guys. It made me both angry and not a good enough woman, which is a new low. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Infidelity, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexual assault, Self harm, Sexism, Rape, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, and Grief

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Car accident, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Bullying, and Eating disorder

Minor: Racism

mirandacactusreads's review against another edition

reflective sad

4.0

Very weird that this book was marketed as a book about women’s sexual desire! It’s more about surviving rape, and being coerced into sexual situations these women actually didn’t enjoy, being manipulated and controlled, and the way women’s sexuality is turned against them. I liked the book itself but it’s pretty messed up that it’s framed as about desire, like what was the goal with that? And just by nature of it being only about three women, it can’t even come close to encapsulating women’s sexualities and desires so idk!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Grief, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual assault, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Rape, Suicide, and Death of parent

Minor: Incest