Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Die geheime Geschichte, by Donna Tartt

470 reviews

wormgirl's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Toxic friendship, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Incest, Alcoholism, Sexism, Mental illness, Homophobia, and Grief

Minor: Antisemitism, Animal death, Toxic relationship, Classism, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

fiolud's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Violence, and Murder

Moderate: Grief, Incest, Homophobia, Gun violence, Suicide attempt, and Suicidal thoughts

annablume's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Suicide, Incest, Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, and Murder

hopespicey's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

what would you do? 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Murder, Violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexism, Religious bigotry, Self harm, Incest, Homophobia, Blood, Classism, and Gun violence

Minor: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, and Medical content

joppiereading's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Nailed the dark academia atmosphere, with great nods to casual Greek or Latin but also to the mythological heritage of the classics, the epic and divine, a study on arrogance and feeling superior, and of course, a murder. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Panic attacks/disorders, Incest, Homophobia, Murder, Alcohol, Antisemitism, Blood, Mental illness, Suicide, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Classism, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, and Suicide attempt

madelinequinne's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

although this took me almost a month to read (damn you terrible attention span!), i absolutely loved this book! I spent so much of the story not knowing which character to trust and trying to work out if Bunny was truly the ‘bad guy’ or maybe just someone who was scared of his friends and what they were capable of? The descriptions and writing in this book is absolutely beautiful and i highly recommend it!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Classism, Cursing, Grief, Homophobia, Incest, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, and Sexism

rainerasnic's review against another edition

challenging dark mysterious tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Animal death, Death, Suicide attempt, Incest, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Drug use, Suicide, Blood, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Physical abuse, and Panic attacks/disorders

karadactyl's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Addiction, Drug abuse, Murder, Xenophobia, Transphobia, Death, Toxic friendship, and Drug use

Moderate: Homophobia, Suicide, and Biphobia

Minor: Suicide attempt

wordsandcoffeemugs's review against another edition

dark slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Murder, Alcoholism, Grief, Gun violence, Homophobia, Racism, Suicide, and Toxic friendship

cmkrasman's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Incest, Alcoholism, Murder, Addiction, Toxic friendship, and Drug use