Reviews tagging 'Abandonment'

Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

87 reviews

maca_vr's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, and Emotional abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Grief, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Cursing, and Death of parent

Minor: Injury/injury detail, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Pregnancy, Abortion, and Chronic illness

storieswithbee's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective sad 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

4.0

Genre: Adult Contemporary Fiction

Age range: 15+

Trope: Celebrity

Overall: 4/5

Content warning: *Abortion, Depictions of Mental Illness (Addiction, Anxiety, Depression), Cheating, Substance Abuse (Alcohol/Drugs), Eating Disorder, Unplanned Pregnancy, Pregnancy, Profanity, Sexual Themes, Self-harm, Parental Neglect*

I listened to this book in an audio format, and I highly recommend that everyone does this. 

Taylor Jenkins Reid's 'Daisy Jones & The Six' and 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' are extremely reminiscent of one another. If you liked one, then I can almost guarantee you'll like the other. 

Reading this book for the first time - not having read the blurb - and heading into this story blind, I was thrown off guard that we were delving into the life and the backstory of a singer and a rock and roll band from the seventies. We were introduced to so many characters very early on that played so many integral parts. And that came across as a little confronting, but that evoked confusion is deliberate. 

This book is written in a documentary-style format that takes you across the span of years with Daisy Jones and the band known as The Six. It features their rise to fame, their challenges across that time, and their eventual split. 

The characters were so well fleshed out already, and that was all the more satisfying with how well this book was narrated. Listening to how each character talked, the emotions in their voices, the pauses, the breathiness, and the laughter, gave the reader/listener this whole new depth in how they could submerge themselves into the story. I genuinely felt as if I was watching a proper interview with the characters, just without viewing it in front of me. I found it so incredibly fascinating. 

The main themes behind the book were thought-provoking, but also really genuine in their mundaneness. All the characters' struggles were real-life struggles. All the conflicts were valid to the main storyline, but they were also complimentary to the time, and to the characters themselves. Nothing felt out of place or too extreme, or too far-fetched. 

All in all, I think this book was a phenomenal read. However, for me, I found that I was comparing this book back to Evelyn Hugo a lot more than I wanted to. I loved that damn book, and because I loved that book, this one paled slightly in comparison. I think it will depend on what you read first. Should that turn you off this book? Absolutely not. Daisy Jones and The Six will be characters that I never let go of. 

I voluntarily read and reviewed this book, and all thoughts and opinions are my own.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Self harm, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Misogyny, Addiction, Drug use, and Infidelity

Moderate: Child abuse, Toxic relationship, Self harm, Vomit, Injury/injury detail, Grief, Abandonment, Misogyny, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Sexism, and Death of parent

whoreforaaronwarner's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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: Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Cursing, Blood, Death, Alcohol, Drug abuse, Drug use, Injury/injury detail, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Abandonment, Abortion, Addiction, Death of parent, Alcoholism, and Domestic abuse

irembik's review

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.25

really liked it! i really loved the interview style it was written in, it was so easy to read and understand, especially if you are in a reading slump like i was. this book is perfect for getting out of one. i loved the characters and seeing how they tell each story differently was so fun and such an interesting approach. the only thing i have to say i was kinda disappointed in the ending.

Spoiler

i knew things weren’t gonna go well for the band considering eddie’s strong opinions about billy and the clues about it in the interviews but i thought it was gonna happen later in their career so i was kinda upset to find out. i also was expecting things to go different for graham and karen but i also liked how realistic their whole storyline was, it was nice to get out of that happy ending bubble for a bit.

and that brings me to my fav thing about the book. it was so real, every character had their rights and wrongs, but u could relate to all of them at different parts of the story.

Spoiler

i also didnt like julia being the author that much.. it got a little excitement out of me but after that i was so confused about the entirety of the book because i kept thinking why would all of them tell about all these stuff to billy’s daughter? i guess it makes sense they would talk to her instead of a stranger but i dont know, we really didnt have to learn who was the interviewer.

but overall it was a fun, interesting book that im probably gonna reread all over again. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment

highmarshal_azure's review against another edition

4.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Abortion, Abandonment, and Pregnancy

erikalv97's review

emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

This was an incredibly well written book. I felt the characters were so realistically human, I was really frustrated by their decisions and reasoning at times. 

I didn’t particularly like Daisy and Billy, but I loved Camila, Karen, Simone and Warren.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, and Abandonment

nehanaomi's review

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.25

definitely grew on me the more I read, very excited to hear the songs in the tv series! 

Spoiler

the reveal of the author had me gagged! the rest of the book suddenly made so much sense

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Injury/injury detail, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Abandonment, Death of parent, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Mental illness, Vomit, Alcoholism, Drug use, Infidelity, Chronic illness, Death, Sexism, and Toxic relationship

tai123's review against another edition

emotional funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Grief, and Addiction

Minor: Abortion, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Gaslighting, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

christinewonder's review against another edition

emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• 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 abuse, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Abortion, Child abuse, and Abandonment

Minor: Cursing

minzzi's review against another edition

dark hopeful 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

 This is a well written quick read filled with interesting and morally gray characters that I really liked reading about (Daisy and Billy specially). And, although this story is nothing revolutionary, being that same old tale about rock stars fucking up their lives, it was mostly enjoyable and very realistic when presenting the problems that come with drug/alcohol abuse.
  However, the ending completely disappointed me. The whole book is this build up to the night the band slit up. The tension between the characters keeps getting bigger and bigger and right when you are in the edgy of your seat, waiting for the big BUM, the tension deflates into nothing like an old balloon. And that is bad, considering that the mystery of why the band ended is de central piece and selling point of this book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Abortion, and Drug abuse

Minor: Pregnancy, Misogyny, Abandonment, and Eating disorder