Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Three Women, by Lisa Taddeo

13 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

linseypenland's review against another edition

challenging informative

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual assault, Alcohol, Adult/minor relationship, and Rape

Minor: Death and Suicide

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

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

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

dylaningersoll's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

amkclaes's review against another edition

emotional informative reflective fast-paced

3.5

honestly, i really enjoyed the first half of this book and ripped through it. i was really interested in hearing about the emotional development of these women, and how they got to where they were, i feel like Taddeo is really good at drawing a quick portrait of someone by picking out a few evocative details and i found it an enjoyable way to learn about the characters.

then it started to lag. by the end i was hardly interested in any of the stories, to be honest, there was a lot of repetition and it got a bit lazy..

add to that that it was a totally white, just barely almost totally heterosexual account of desire and love.. it's interesting because I'm also reading Sister Outsider, and in Lorde's "Open letter to Mary Daly," she is totally uncompromising on one point: if you accept that women other than cis straight white women are part of womanhood, any account that excludes the others cannot be considered an account of women's anything. so to sell this as an account of women's desire, and then include such limited perspective, is disappointing. Taddeo has a pretty good grip on class dynamics which adds to the analysis, but otherwise it's pretty bland.

finally, there are parts that are literally softcore porn.. which doesn't offend me, but i guess i have trouble taking it seriously.. and for me it didn't really add to a "female gaze" or whatever most of the time. Sloane to me had the most dominance over the gaze during her sex scenes, the rest you could be getting from anyone's perspective really.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, and Death of parent

nialiversuch's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content, Sexual assault, Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cancer, Death of parent, Dysphoria, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Car accident, Child abuse, Cursing, Rape, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Vomit, Toxic friendship, Terminal illness, and Suicidal thoughts

stuffinmybrainhole's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.75

She’s a lot. TW’s out the wazoo. But damn. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Pedophilia, Alcohol, Misogyny, Self harm, Child abuse, Death of parent, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Grief, Suicide, and Vomit