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julesadventurezone's review against another edition
3.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Incest, Blood, Gaslighting, and Alcohol
gaiadances's review against another edition
2.75
Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Toxic relationship
luelle_'s review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Suicide, and Death of parent
Moderate: Body shaming, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Incest and Pedophilia
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, Infidelity, Sexual content, and Grief
hunterlovesneilperry's review against another edition
2.5
the way sloane would in deatil talk about her internalised fatphobia, and that she needed to be skinny, made me as a plus size person, feel disgusted with myself.
lina starts off her part by talking about getting raped, and then you’re left with this feeling of «oh my god» because reading about rape is in no way fun or interesting. but she leaves it at that. she never brings it up again, and i was so obvious that her need for sexual attention comes from unhealed wounds.
maggie was just very complicated not gonna lie. i dont even know how to get into that.
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Rape, Toxic relationship, and Abandonment
Moderate: Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Religious bigotry, Car accident, Death of parent, and Sexual harassment
adrianafetzer's review against another edition
3.25
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Vomit, and Sexual harassment
Moderate: Addiction and Alcoholism
emelymarie's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Body shaming, Cursing, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Car accident, and Gaslighting
bluebellwoods's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Death, Eating disorder, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Vomit, Car accident, and Death of parent
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, Medical content, and Medical trauma
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, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Bullying
Minor: Blood
tabitha_isabelle's review against another edition
2.5
Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, and Death of parent