Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

130 reviews

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Grief, and Self harm

maride's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

at  the beggining i was like "wowwww lets go  rock and roll" but then i was like "this   pretentious  people can never shut up" like yes i know this is a interview but still ... i was so annoyed with everyone...

Camila, Daisy and Karen deserve waaaayyyyy better.......


Hoping that the series is better tho 

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Death, Grief, Abortion, Addiction, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Alcohol, Cursing, Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Terminal illness, and Toxic friendship

paigevictoria2001's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Toxic friendship, Cursing, Drug abuse, and Drug use

maggiemaryamos's review against another edition

dark lighthearted relaxing medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Drug abuse, Drug use, Grief, Self harm, Mental illness, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Abortion, Alcohol, Death, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

quinn24's review against another edition

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

4.0

formatted like a documentary, Daisy Jones & The Six follows this band through their rise to stardom and subsequent break up. The characters are incredibly realistic and their emotions and behaviours are very real, all of them are unreliable narrators so it’s funny when you read something from one person and then it’s told differently from another. I don’t have any personals experience with addiction but i think that topic was handled with tact. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Cursing, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Vomit

Minor: Death, Blood, and Chronic illness

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 against another edition

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