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janhasread's review against another edition
4.0
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.
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Grief, Sexual content, and Infidelity
slintangel's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Death of parent, Suicide, Sexual assault, Rape, Pedophilia, Infidelity, Fatphobia, and Eating disorder
sarhslbr's review
2.25
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Suicide
Moderate: Bullying, Death of parent, Fatphobia, and Gaslighting
emelymarie's review
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Car accident, Cursing, Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Self harm, and Sexual violence
laurahedd's review against another edition
3.75
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Infidelity, Sexual assault, and Sexual content
holreads's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Infidelity, and Adult/minor relationship
jamieleepilk's review against another edition
2.0
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.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Blood
tabitha_isabelle's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
hazalpaca's review against another edition
4.25
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Misogyny, and Sexual content
devikapha's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death of parent, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Grief, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Self harm, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Stalking, and Toxic relationship