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Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

68 reviews

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Bullying, Car accident, Misogyny, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Rape

Moderate: Addiction, Fatphobia, Alcohol, Blood, Body shaming, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

berightbec's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Misogyny, Sexual content, Suicide, Addiction, Car accident, Eating disorder, and Emotional abuse

betttyy8's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

2.5

I'm just not entirely sure what the point of this was in the end. I liked the women's stories and thought they were nuanced and some complicated parts of my own experience were articulated by them. However, I feel like making this a nonfiction book and suggesting there's something in here about female desire and sexuality and patriarchy meant I was kind of expecting more reflection/engagement/analysis from the author. I appreciate presenting these women without judgement, that's fundamental and important, but it almost feels like this ends up extending to any meaningful thought about the wider implications that the book wants to be engaging with. I don't know. I liked the women's stories I was just not sure what the author wanted me to know about them and ultimately I feel let down by it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Fatphobia, Suicide, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Self harm, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Rape

Minor: Incest

carlytenille's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Car accident and Death of parent

garibae's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Infidelity, Rape, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Adult/minor relationship, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual harassment, Incest, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, and Alcoholism

kassy182's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

all i have to say is that men are awful and time and again they prove how awful they can be and often innately are. women that support awful men with the knowledge of the extent of their awfulness are just as bad if not worse. 
women deserve more. women have never been given what they deserve and they deserve so much more than a man can even conceive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Misogyny, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Eating disorder, Car accident, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Adult/minor relationship, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Sexism, Rape, and Pedophilia

giulia_bis's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Sexual violence, Vomit, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexism

Minor: Alcoholism, Cancer, Misogyny, and Religious bigotry

storiedtherapy's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

3.0

This book tells the true stories of three women and how sexual desire played into their lives. What it is that gave them their particular desires, from the families to their ages to their history with trauma, and how they reacted to others finding out about their sex lives, and how others reacted to them.

Maggie has the strongest narrative. Her teacher groomed her and "corrupted" her at 17 years old, and six years later she reports the crime. It is the narrative the book starts and ends with, and definitely has the most haunting result of all of them. This story breaks down what we may logically think a grooming situation would be like isn't the way we think it would be. How her abuser, Aaron Knodel (and that is his real name), was able to get away with it. How he took a vulnerable young woman's craving for love and belonging to sate himself and break her down.

Lina is a 30-something year old woman whose husband no longer even touches her. She separates from her husband and has an affair with her a high school ex-boyfriend. In my opinion, this was the weakest of the three women's stories. Perhaps because Taddeo did not see the conclusion of their relationship. Her chapters are mostly descriptive sex scenes and while there is definitely the complicated dynamic she has with this ex-boyfriend, it wasn't anything revealing or particularly important, imo. The one interesting insight came at the very end, in the epilogue, and only lasted a paragraph.

Sloane is a woman who is married and desired greatly by her husband, and part of their sex life is letting other men and women into their bed. Sloane grew up wealthy and beautiful, and married a chef. In the beginning, it was the same type of story you'd expect--societal pressure of a pretty, privileged white woman. Her part was also the smallest, which made me wonder why she was included in the first place. But at the end, other details pull together that link Sloane's early family life with her life with her husband now, and how their preferences impact others around them.

The descriptive writing in this book in probably its strongest point. Even in Lina's chapters, which were generally the least interesting to me, the details are enough to savor and really understand and see the point of view of each of these three women's stories.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death of parent, Sexual assault, and Suicide

Minor: Car accident

elise_allberry's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexism, Sexual content, Misogyny, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, Infidelity, Gaslighting, and Grief

Minor: Alcohol, Car accident, Death of parent, Drug use, and Suicide

sammantha's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Animal death