Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Daisy Jones and the Six audiobook by Taylor Jenkins Reid

242 reviews

linneak's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abortion, Sexual content, Alcohol, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, and Grief

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, Adult/minor relationship, and Injury/Injury detail

jamiejanae_6's review against another edition

adventurous reflective sad tense fast-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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Drug use, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship

fkshg8465's review against another edition

emotional 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

3.0

I would’ve rated this higher, but I was bored for 3/4 of the book. The last 1/4 was great, but before then, I kept wondering why this book was so popular and acclaimed and made into a TV series.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Grief, Abortion, Drug abuse, and Cancer

lucinerico's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad 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

5.0

the best book ive ever read

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Grief, Death, and Abortion

Minor: Abandonment, Racism, and Cancer

taylormargaret's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

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

2.5

My first Taylor Jenkins Reid book. TJR writes this one as a script for a documentary of the band, so it’s only interview tapes. This makes it feel like the outline of a book, without the narrative and settings to back it up. TJR is clearly great at writing dialogue and just thought, “what if I don’t do anything else?” Why isn’t she writing plays? This can hardly be called a novel. I mean, I didn’t hate reading this, but it was hardly fleshed out and emotionally inviting. Besides, TJR has a problem which is that she thinks she can do the work of referencing the craziness of the 70s rock’n’roll scene with all the booze, sex and drugs without actually describing it for us. This makes it seem pretty boring and has you, as a reader, relying on what you might’ve seen in “Almost Famous” to give the work any kind of setting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Addiction

Moderate: Abortion, Eating disorder, and Death

Minor: War, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Grief

crunchycrystals's review against another edition

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Infidelity, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Grief, and Death

koplomps's review against another edition

reflective sad slow-paced

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

2.0

I was so dissapointed with this book and don't really understand the hype that seemed to surround this book when it came out. Maybe it just wasn't meant for me.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Toxic relationship, Drug use, and Sexism

Moderate: Body shaming, Violence, Abandonment, Grief, Pregnancy, Abortion, and Infidelity

Minor: Eating disorder and Sexual content

ginniereads's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing sad tense medium-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: Addiction, Alcohol, Drug use, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Infidelity

Moderate: Abandonment and Toxic relationship

Minor: Grief, Death, Chronic illness, Death of parent, and Abortion

ilaronicly's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Infidelity, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Abortion, Cursing, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death, Sexual content, and Grief

riley2399's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad medium-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: Pregnancy, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Adult/minor relationship, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Death, Cursing, Abortion, Alcohol, Grief, and Drug use