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A review by tobyyy
Unmentionable: The Victorian Lady's Guide to Sex, Marriage, and Manners by Therese Oneill
3.0
Unmentionable is a fascinating premise.
But... I got bored about a quarter of the way through with the humor that Oneill uses. She talks directly to the reader, as though she had directly transported the reader to Victorian times and was walking the reader through all of the differences compared to present-day.
And the humor just... gets tiresome.
It's not a bad sense of humor. Not disgusting really (well, given the content of the book - not any more disgusting than I'd naturally expect). There's just too much of it even in a few pages.
And honestly, my tolerance for topics such as these is rather low. I forgot that, too.
Would recommend to those who are interested in the topics covered in the book... but wouldn't recommend as a pleasurable read just for humor's sake.
One thing I did love was that the very last "chapter" (2 pages) was a very female empowering one. That was awesome. I also liked the pictures and excerpts that were everywhere in this book (the only things that made reading it worthwhile, IMO).
But man. It dragged on for me just too long.
But... I got bored about a quarter of the way through with the humor that Oneill uses. She talks directly to the reader, as though she had directly transported the reader to Victorian times and was walking the reader through all of the differences compared to present-day.
And the humor just... gets tiresome.
It's not a bad sense of humor. Not disgusting really (well, given the content of the book - not any more disgusting than I'd naturally expect). There's just too much of it even in a few pages.
And honestly, my tolerance for topics such as these is rather low. I forgot that, too.
Would recommend to those who are interested in the topics covered in the book... but wouldn't recommend as a pleasurable read just for humor's sake.
One thing I did love was that the very last "chapter" (2 pages) was a very female empowering one. That was awesome. I also liked the pictures and excerpts that were everywhere in this book (the only things that made reading it worthwhile, IMO).
But man. It dragged on for me just too long.