Reviews tagging 'Mental illness'

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

223 reviews

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

Moderate: Abortion and Death of parent

haley_reads_books's review against another edition

emotional hopeful 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

3.5

The narrators’ performance was fantastic, but this book felt like it went on forever and the ending climax wasn't dramatic enough to really keep me interested. It took me so long to finish because I had to force myself to pay attention to it because I really didn’t want to. I don’t really get the hype behind it 🤷🏼‍♀️.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Death and Death of parent

stepnic's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Terminal illness, Violence, Blood, Gaslighting, and Abandonment

natalee18132's review against another edition

sad medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Grief, Medical trauma, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and Injury/Injury detail

alliesmusings's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Mental illness, Grief, Abortion, Death of parent, and Alcohol

sararead's review against another edition

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

3.75

I thought this book was interesting but it's a like not a love for me. The format of the book, written like an oral history, was interesting but got disjointed at times. It also made it impossible to switch between audiobook and ebook like I prefer.

I liked the fact that the characters who had

passed away didn't have interviews and I'll be honest I didn't even realize Teddy hadn't had one until it was revealed that he passed away. I think that was clever and also a mark of how realized his character felt even through the voice of others.

 

I think the part that fell flat for me was the ending being so much about

Camila.

Like I guess that makes sense looking back but for me that was the least interesting part of the whole story. And the fact that

Julia is the author was cute I guess but I think it means that more stuff probably happened between Billy/Daisy that we never actually get told because why would anyone tell this kid writing a book after her mom died that.

Not sure I'll watch the show, I like the lyrics and the scenes of them writing the album a lot and heard that is toned down more in the book which lessens my interest for now

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

jasmineslibraryy's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

this book has truly changed my life.

these characters all feel so real to me. i can’t believe they don’t really exist. i wish i could hug daisy :( 

i can’t wait to watch the show :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Medical content, Grief, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Mental illness, Sexual content, Blood, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Eating disorder and War

a huge part of the book, especially daisy and billie’s characters, deals with drug use & addiction so be cautious

marissasa's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

I listened to this on audiobook while reading along and it definitely raised my ranking, since the audio has a full cast with different narrators for each character's dialogue. I liked the novelty of the story being told through an interview format, but ultimately I do think this story would work better for a screen adaptation because you'd get to see the drama play out and see them actually perform the rock songs that are described so well. I will have to watch the tv series for this that just came out and see! But it was a fun drama-filled read all around.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Abortion, Pregnancy, Toxic friendship, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

daringreader13's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative reflective sad tense fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Abandonment, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion

grunbean's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-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

This is the kind of book that will keep you turning pages. Every page I read, I wanted to know what would happen next.

I haven’t read a book like it before, so it is hard to describe. I think what makes it so good to read is the characters and the tightly written narrative. No character is uninteresting, and the way Reid is able to make a story in this interview format is so interesting. 

It will make you laugh, and it will make you sad. I would really recommend it 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, Eating disorder, Infidelity, Mental illness, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Vomit, Abortion, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail