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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

43 reviews

moiracampbell23's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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clephairy's review against another edition

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challenging dark medium-paced

2.5

i found the premise and motivation of the book really interesting and promising. sadly it fell short. i think that stories told were certainly insightful but i think they werent told with the intentional nuance of liberating desire. it was not at all seperated from men and patriarchal concepts of conforming to gendered ideals. however i think the story concerning aaron knodel was not at all told with the particular compassion nor understanding that it deserved, as a 17yr old when reading about a teacher student relationship with someone my age i am appalled by the inclusion of graphic depictions of the assault that took place. furthermore the internalised misogyny throughout the whole scene in court was not cool and fun or anything that should be celebrated.

im glad people felt carthasis and do not want to take that away from anyone. heal in the ways you can.

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julesadventurezone's review

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reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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asbat's review against another edition

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emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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janhasread's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.0

I did a full review of this on my Instagram (@janhasread, shameless plug). But the basics of this is that you have to go into this book without specific expectations because I’ve noticed that the description can be misleading for some people.

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.

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jamieleepilk's review

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challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

This book was nothing like what I thought it would be based on other peoples recommendations and reviews. Recommendations and reviews I might add that are covering the inside cover of the book, to the point where looking at them I felt like I was reading a totally different book.
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.

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