Reviews tagging 'Adult/minor relationship'

Three Women - Drei Frauen by Lisa Taddeo

219 reviews

mayaspasta's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

craftyanty's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

3.75

I have mixed feelings on this one.  
The author shares the stories of three women and the details of their relationships with significant men in their lives.  All three stories were engaging and intriguing.  However, they seemed a bit imbalanced to me because Maggie's story (that of a teen who becomes involved with her teacher) could've been a book of its own.  While all the stories were emotional, that one just felt much heavier than the others.  

Most of the book is written in straightforward prose that allows for smooth reading, but every now and then, the author hits you with a simile  thrown in that feels forced and takes you out of the book.

I also would've appreciated it if the author had chosen a more diverse group of women.  Perhaps this book concept could be extended into a series that includes some women of color. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual content, Sexual violence, and Death of parent

Moderate: Eating disorder and Suicide

hayleyvarlow's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship

delicategoblin's review against another edition

medium-paced

3.0

An effective exploration of the impacts of the patriarchy on female relationships&desire. Very much depicted women’s sexualities being for other people, and the low standards women set for desire, love, and romance. The book felt extremely distant, which makes sense in a way (for the characters and how they related to themselves, the world, others), but personally detracted from my enjoyment of the book. The book was quite bleak in terms of the facets of female desire depicted, which is fine but not something I was particularly drawn to at that moment. Effective in the way that it depicted exploitation, but something about the book was off for me that I can’t quite place. Perhaps it was structural? Am unsure. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Sexual assault, and Sexual content

un_til's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship and Sexual assault

lhince's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective medium-paced

3.0

I picked this book due to its narrative format. I was looking for a non-fiction book that would be engaging. The book often read like a story and because of this was pretty easy to get through. What I was not expecting was the amount of descriptive erotic scenes. Do not recommend listening to this aloud with other people around. The story about Maggie was definitely the most engaging and the one I kept wanting to learn  more about. The last two women had some interesting perspectives but ultimately their stories did 
 not seem to come to a resolution and fell flat.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship

rachaelwho's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

3.5

Not what I expected from the forward. I'm very curious about the writing of this one and want to look up more info. Incredibly sad and frustrated for all the women. Violently angry for Maggie. All of them, really, but especially angry for Maggie.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual assault and Suicide

Minor: Alcoholism

queenonika's review against another edition

challenging dark reflective sad medium-paced

2.0

The three women who shared their experiences were very brave to do so, but I do not believe that the author did their stories justice. This book was just sad and it spoke more to the abuse women suffer under the power of men and less on women’s desires themselves. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, and Rape

laurenbisignano's review against another edition

challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Rape, Sexual assault, and Toxic relationship

alex_johnson_2021's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced

3.5

I found Lina and Maggie's stories compelling but there wasn't enough time for Sloane's story. Her story felt the weakest and the least fleshed out. There was also a twist that has to do with the relationship between her and her brother but it was completely sudden. There was no foreshadowing or leading to that particular conclusion. Lina didn't really get a proper ending compared to the other two stories, but the book was so easy to get into. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Grief, and Death of parent