Reviews tagging 'Blood'

Three Women - Drei Frauen by Lisa Taddeo

10 reviews

ashlinvrf's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

2.5

I'm disappointed because the description left me wanting more than what I'd read. Actual representation of the diversity of women's desire. Much more of a focus on trauma, not much analysis or commentary? No sense of closure or reflection on the parts of the main women?

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Incest, Infidelity, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, and Gaslighting

haileyeh's review against another edition

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, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual content, Suicide, and Death of parent

Moderate: Car accident, Gaslighting, and Sexual harassment

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

mscalls's review against another edition

dark emotional informative reflective tense fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Child abuse, Death, Drug use, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, and Alcohol

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: Adult/minor relationship, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, and Sexual content

Moderate: Death, Rape, Sexual assault, Suicide, Vomit, Car accident, and Death of parent

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Blood, and Alcohol

orlagal's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Cancer, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Incest, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Car accident, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

alisonfaith426's review against another edition

challenging emotional sad medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Adult/minor relationship, Bullying, Cursing, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, and Car accident

Moderate: Addiction, Body shaming, Fatphobia, Terminal illness, Blood, Death of parent, and Alcohol

julesadventurezone's review against another edition

reflective sad medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

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, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death of parent

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

nicolaparty's review against another edition

emotional sad slow-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Alcoholism, Rape, and Death of parent

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