Reviews tagging 'Death'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

28 reviews

maddie7217's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, Rape, Suicide attempt, Car accident, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, Death, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Grief, Pedophilia, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Body shaming, Vomit, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Drug use, and Alcoholism

mscalls's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Body shaming, Sexual assault, Grief, Adult/minor relationship, Suicide, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Alcohol, Car accident, Death, Child abuse, Death of parent, Rape, and Misogyny

Moderate: Blood

Minor: Cancer

idasophieluise's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense medium-paced

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Eating disorder, Rape, Sexual violence, Sexual content, Sexual assault, Infidelity, and Death

abisnail564's review against another edition

challenging reflective medium-paced

4.0

Loved this. Challenging and thought-provoking.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Rape, Death, Alcoholism, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Infidelity, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Addiction, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Sexism, Eating disorder, and Toxic relationship

libraryloverlea's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Child abuse, Misogyny, Sexual assault, and Adult/minor relationship

Minor: Death, Suicide, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Death of parent, Car accident, and Sexual harassment

sorcha's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Vomit, Rape, Sexual assault, Death of parent, Suicide, Car accident, and Death

Minor: Alcohol, Blood, Addiction, and Alcoholism

1moodreader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

Lisa Taddeo follows three women's lives in an effort to unmask women's desires. 

The audiobook has a full cast of narration and the author reads the author's note and closing. The other three narrators are perfect and really elevate the audiobook. 

The book follows Maggie, Sloane, and Lena. All three women are very different, but we see that they each deal with the oppressive nature of living in patriarchal society. The implications of their shared reality manifest differently in each woman's life (check trigger warnings!). 

The book can be summed up with the following quote from one of Lena's opening chapters

 Women shouldn't judge each others lives, if we haven't been through one another's fires. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Death of parent, Suicide, Death, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Sexual assault, Incest, Misogyny, Sexual harassment, and Rape

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

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

oliviapearn's review

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Car accident, Death of parent, Death, Addiction, Suicide, Sexual violence, Rape, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, and Bullying