Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

18 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

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

clephairy's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Car accident, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Bullying and Incest

fifofi's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder

Minor: Alcohol

julesadventurezone's review

reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Car accident, Cursing, Death of parent, Toxic relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexism, Misogyny, Mental illness, Infidelity, Grief, Fatphobia, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Blood, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Incest