Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

125 reviews

melissaslibraryy's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny inspiring reflective sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

tania_mybookishsecret's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, and Addiction

Moderate: Infidelity and Eating disorder

Minor: Abortion, Death, Chronic illness, and Adult/minor relationship

chaoticnostalgia's review

fast-paced

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

3.5

Definitely entertaining as an audiobook, but the story was pretty predictable and left me with the "Oh, that was it?" feeling. Nonetheless, I'm excited to watch the television show!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Sexual content, Abandonment, and Abortion

Minor: Death, Pregnancy, and Death of parent

chrstnpet2's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Addiction, Alcohol, and Drug use

Moderate: Death of parent, Adult/minor relationship, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Toxic friendship, Eating disorder, Vomit, and Emotional abuse

phoebebird's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

3.0

I enjoyed the creativity of the format, and thought it was both well executed and well written. The twist was random and unnecessary. I also hated almost all of the female characters in this book. Daisy is an insufferably conceited manic pixie dream girl who treats others horribly but is hailed as a princess nonetheless because she’s “broken” and “beautiful.” I dreaded returning to her narration. I also did not love Camila’s

Spoiler

decision to go back to Billy after he cheated on her. While she was one of the strongest, most enjoyable characters, I felt like she deserved so much better than to be stuck serving as Billy’s own personal saint, and her whole arc sent the wrong message about staying in a relationship out of love, no matter how toxic or abusive it is.

I guess my overall conclusion would be that for a book written by a woman, its representation of its female characters felt like it was created by a man. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Cursing

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Abortion, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

mishasbooks's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Abortion, Eating disorder, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Chronic illness, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, and Suicidal thoughts

chrilovyl's review against another edition

emotional medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, Drug abuse, Alcoholism, Infidelity, and Addiction

Moderate: Misogyny, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Grief, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Pregnancy, and Abortion

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

Daisy Jones & the Six is another great book by Taylor Jenkins Reid. If I were going to nitpick, I would say her style of an 11th hour child-related plot twist only really works the first time (and I read Evelyn Hugo before I got StoryGraph), but that is a minor thing. The ending also feels a little abrupt. But I love the level of detail, and the inclusion of the lyrics from the album in the back. I love the messy tension between Billy and Daisy. I love fictionalized versions of things we tend to use to share the truth, like a documentary or like an academic paper (House of Leaves ftw), and this obviously delivered in that realm. I wish I had listened to it as audiobook, but by the time I realized that was the best format, I wanted to read the book too much to wait for that version.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Addiction, Drug use, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Cursing, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion, Death, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Violence, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Self harm, and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

lizgriffinwords's review

emotional reflective sad medium-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

4.25

Very different from what I usually read, but definitely lived up to the hype. Highly recommend the full-cast audiobook.

Content warning: themes/temptation of cheating and infidelity, frequent drug and alcohol abuse, alcoholism, abusive/abandoning parents

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Drug use, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

notsolocaltheatrekid's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Toxic friendship

Minor: Abortion