Three Women
All Lina wanted was to be desired. How did she end up in a marriage with two children and a husband who wouldn't touch her?
All Maggie wanted was to be understood. How did she end up in a relationship with her teacher and then in court, a hated pariah in her small town?
All Sloane wanted was to be admired. How did she end up a sexual object of men, including her husband, who liked to watch her have sex with other men and women?
I did wonder if I was reading a different book to everyone else. All those glowing reviews, but it didn't do it for me.
This was the true stories of three women, one of whom was “groomed” by her teacher, another was in a sexless marriage and the third in a form of open marriage.
The link to all these was that they were coerced.
I found that skipping between the three stories difficult. It would have been much easier to have told each one in full. You would start to get into the story when it changed and you had to remember them all as you were going along. It broke the rhythm for me.
The build up to each story took a long time and made for quite harrowing and distressing reading.
It was all very well written, but made for a truly depressing read.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my ARC in exchange of an honest review.