Reviews tagging 'Chronic illness'

Malibu Renasce by Taylor Jenkins Reid

37 reviews

marieos's review against another edition

emotional hopeful sad slow-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Violence, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Police brutality, Car accident, and Pregnancy

Minor: Miscarriage, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Car accident, and Abortion

violetsonata93's review against another edition

emotional funny sad

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

A great book. Well worth a read. I enjoyed the characters and themes, the flashbacks and play by play of the night. It made me feel a lot. The ending kind of disappointed me though, which is mostly why I couldn't rate it as high as Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Death, Drug use, Sexism, Grief, Death of parent, Abandonment, and Alcohol

brashcandicoot's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment

Moderate: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Miscarriage, Physical abuse, Racism, Sexual content, Violence, Blood, Police brutality, Car accident, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Classism

sunny_not's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

As always Taylor Jenkins Reid's books are such fast, complex and interesting reads. This one was my favorite so far since I really enjoyed the different dynamics between family members and I really felt for June

her becoming addicted to alcohol and her death were just devastating after seeing how much she worked to give her kids a great life.

This book deals with how abandonment can ruin a whole family essentially and it's so sad and so real. Overall I really enjoyed this story and I'm excited about Cassie soto's story

I hated Brandon he was awful I hope she gets rid of him in her book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Death, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship and Pedophilia

Minor: Abortion

taleofabibliophile's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful reflective 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? It's complicated

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Pregnancy

Minor: Chronic illness, Miscarriage, Racism, Sexism, Car accident, Abortion, and Sexual harassment

danajoy's review against another edition

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness, Infidelity, Vomit, Car accident, Pregnancy, and Abandonment

ninahuynh's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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? No

4.75

Would have been 5/5 except for one part where the character names were written wrong and details got confused.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Chronic illness, Police brutality, and Pregnancy

cepbreed's review against another edition

emotional hopeful fast-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

4.0

I sooooo love books set within a day. There's so much compact action and drama it makes everything just a bit more ridiculous. I would love to see this turned into a movie one day (it reminds me of Project X to a degree). After catching a few references to her other books I'm kind of disappointed I chose to pick up Malibu Rising first, no one told me they were interconnected 🥲 Its wonderful that a book can be so fun, include so many characters and debaucherous behavior, and still hold lots of meaningful character development. When we were introduced to Nina Riva I felt a connection in my SOUL. I so badly wanted to rate this a five, but somehow my is heart just is not into it.

Song: 

• Heatwaves - Glass Animals 
• Dancing On Quicksand - Bad Suns 
• the  last great american dynasty - Taylor swift 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Gaslighting, Abandonment, and Alcohol

Moderate: Chronic illness and Cursing

Minor: Gun violence and Blood

himangi's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Infidelity, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Suicide, Police brutality, Grief, Car accident, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, and Abandonment

addie's review against another edition

emotional sad 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

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death of parent and Abandonment

Moderate: Drug use

Minor: Chronic illness