Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

119 reviews

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 against another edition

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

brie_without_the_e's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, Self harm, Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Infidelity, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Grief, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Cursing, Abortion, and Death

wifeslife's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring relaxing 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

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abortion, Alcoholism, Alcohol, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Toxic friendship

strawberry_shortcake98's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? 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

Moderate: Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Drug use, Toxic friendship, and Alcohol

mermaidsherbet's review against another edition

emotional sad tense 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

3.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Blood, Car accident, Chronic illness, Violence, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Cursing, Suicidal thoughts, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Medical content, Dementia, Vomit, Fire/Fire injury, and Eating disorder

kylasmv15's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Cursing, Infidelity, Toxic friendship, Emotional abuse, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Abandonment, Blood, Pregnancy, Death, Death of parent, Grief, and Domestic abuse

nadia_luq's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Eating disorder, Drug use, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Mental illness, and Infidelity

Moderate: Death of parent and Abortion

bookishhl8275's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense 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

4.5

This is the first time I’ve read a book in this style writing - oral history in an interview recounting the actual story - with each member of the band having their own version of the story.
This was also my first Taylor Jenkins Reid book, and with all the hype that surrounds her books I can now understand why.

Spoiler

This book was riveting, I was enthralled with each characters story - the tension and will they won’t they of the romance between Daisy and Billy was almost hard to read at some moments it felt so real.
This didn’t give me that five star feeling I get when a book blows me away but that doesn’t mean this book wasn’t phenomenal in its own way.
Will definitely be picking up more TJR books and can’t wait to do so.
Still highly recommend this book!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Drug abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Alcohol, Terminal illness, Infidelity, and Abortion