Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

268 reviews

daisyfont's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Sexism, Pregnancy, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Death, and Physical abuse

Minor: Eating disorder, Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

micaelamariem's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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

3.0

This book was okay. While I admire the creativity of writing the whole story like an interview, I don’t think I much liked the format as a reader. I’m also confused how they can be such a hit band with only, like, two albums. And honestly, there wasn’t really any twist like I was expecting—like there was in Evelyn Hugo. So I guess…I don’t know, this book wasn’t much my thing, and I don’t think going forward, books about rockstars are my thing either. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Drug abuse, Sexual content, Death, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug use, Cursing, Cancer, Classism, Pregnancy, and Sexism

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

karirae7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective 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: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Abortion, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Toxic 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

bookwormlily's review against another edition

adventurous challenging mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.75

Loved it. While reading it, this book made me feel very cool, like I could do all those things even though I never would. Very emotional and heart-wrenching at times.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity, Self harm, Emotional abuse, and Eating disorder

Minor: Stalking, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Blood, and Abortion

rochelleisreading's review against another edition

challenging emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual content, Emotional abuse, and Abortion

madelinequinne's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.0

an absolutely beautiful book. you really feel like you’re there with the band when you’re reading this, and the imagery and prose were gorgeous. I now wanna be a rockstar in the 70s

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Cursing, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Grief

bexi's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

I honestly had no interest in reading this, but I kept hearing how great the audiobook was and my curiosity won out. I'm glad I listened to it, though. I was pleasantly surprised!

The way the story was put together was such a cool concept. I did struggle to identify the audiobook cast; there were a lot of characters to keep track of, and half of the narrator's voices sounded the same to me. I could only identity the female characters and Grahm by voice. I think that's just a me thing, though 😅 But it did unfortunately take me out of the story sometimes. 

I also had a hard time believing that

Daisy and Billy loved each other. I understood the attraction, but felt like we were told more than we were shown. But maybe that was unavoidable since the bulk of the book was in interview format. While the interview format was cool and unique, it also made it harder for me to connect to the characters - they felt distant somehow.

Overall, it's a really good book. I think I'd enjoy it more on a reread.

This book kind of reminded me of the movie Almost Famous. So if you like that movie, you might like this.

I'd love to watch the adaptation of this, but I don't have Amazon Prime. Maybe one day I'll see it. 🤷‍♀️

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug use, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Abortion, Sexual content, Cursing, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Pregnancy

Minor: Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, and Cancer