Three Women Book by Lisa Taddeo

Three Women isn't exactly riveting or life changing. It's just another mediocre book about sex. It follows three women from difference facets of life. The read was rather disappointing with the exception of the Maggie. The writing was decent but I was incredibly disappointed with the outcome of the book.

I think that has more to do with the way the book was marketed and not the book itself.I was expecting a very different read. I was anticipating a read that was based off the data  of many women and not just 3 women. The book was marketed as a book about sexual desires and it just covers three women. The book synopsis also states that the women are from different regions and backgrounds but the are all white American women who want to be loved. American and women are made up of so much more than that. What about other ethnic groups? Do they not count? 

The book tackles sexuality and womanly desires but it really lacks a clear thesis leaving me perplexed as to exactly what Taddeo was trying to tell her readers. I feel frustrated and the book feels unresolved. It feels like a book about men more than women and the way men control women's sexuality. This book isn't all that it's been made out to be. 

Beneath the Attic by V.C. Andrews

Publication Date 08/27/2019 

I thought it was time to revisit an old "friend" and  when given the opportunity to read an advanced readers copy of Beneath the Attic - I jumped at it. Yes, I know it's a ghost writer and I also know I probably shouldn't have been reading these books when I was 10 and 12. I reread them as an adult and nostalgia pulled me back into the world of V.C. Andrews. 

Beneath the Attic takes place decades before Dollanganger's existed.  It is the 1890's and Corrine is our main character. I need to explain that is about Garland's wife Corrine and not Chris and Catherine mother, Corrine. I need to point this out because while the book takes place in the late 1890's is reads more modern as the character(s) do things that the never would have done during that time period. I had to keep reminding myself this is Garland's wife! 

There is quite a bit of historical inaccuracies but I was able to brush them aside and keep on reading despite me expecting Corrine to pull out a cell phone and start texting. Corrine is absolutely nothing like I imagined but it does relate to and add to the actions of later generations and the way they use their beauty, which is then in turn used against them to bring them harm.

I am neither disappointed or thrilled about this book. It's a fast read and didn't take up too much of my time. If your curious pick it up because why not?

* I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware

Rowan takes a nanny job in a remote area of Scotland. The salary is great but the house has a history of short term nannies. Is is the house or the children? Rowan is about to find out what hides beneath  Heatherbrae, a home that is a strange mix of Modernism, Victorian and equipped with the latest tech gadgets.

The Turn of the Key is told by Rowan in a series of letters to a solicitor in which she unfolds what went on during her stay at  Heatherbrae and how she is not guilty of committing murder.

Rowan herself is a particularly odd character and the book focus on the child care but not on the actual children.  Readers don't get to really know the children and as a result of this there is a discord between the reader and the characters. Perhaps that was the purpose but it didn't allow for me to connect, which meant I didn't really care much for what happened to them.

This doesn't meant that the book isn't good because it is and the thrill of what is going on is an exciting road of twists and turns. Some you see coming and some you don't The build up is a bit slow but the read is most definitely worth it.



* I received a copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.