Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Three Women by Lisa Taddeo

9 reviews

haileyeh's review

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

3.75

Justice for Maggie!

Too much sexual detail for my taste, but otherwise an extremely well-written book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Suicide, Death of parent, Infidelity, Rape, and Sexual content

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Car accident, and Gaslighting

Minor: Terminal illness, Alcohol, Cursing, Alcoholism, Incest, and Blood

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

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

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

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

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

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

jamieleepilk's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad slow-paced

2.0

This book was nothing like what I thought it would be based on other peoples recommendations and reviews. Recommendations and reviews I might add that are covering the inside cover of the book, to the point where looking at them I felt like I was reading a totally different book.
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.

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Content Warnings

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

holliejoy's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Blood, Bullying, Car accident, Child abuse, Death of parent, Grief, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, and Toxic relationship

nicolaparty's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Car accident, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Grief, Sexual content, Suicide, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Rape

Minor: Blood, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Incest, Misogyny, and Suicidal thoughts