Reviews tagging 'Alcohol'

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

1373 reviews

tah_014's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Alcohol, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Addiction, Sexual content, and Drug use

Moderate: Grief, Pregnancy, Violence, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Death

dahliacove's review against another edition

medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Addiction, Drug use, and Alcoholism

Minor: Drug abuse, Infidelity, Death, and Abortion

chacha12's review against another edition

emotional hopeful inspiring sad slow-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

4.5

Loved the way it was written, as an interview ! The characters were flawed but so realistic and driven, I loved them so much ! The ending was very sad and yet hopeful, kinda sweet and sour... I was getting tearful by the end. It was a bit slow at first but It was so well written that it didn't bother me. Overall, it was a really good book and I enjoyed spending all that time with the characters. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Abortion

joanna_banana's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

4.5

I listened to this while in COVID quarantine and loved the characters and style of “documentary” narrative that felt so real even if it was all fiction. Camila was the real hero of the story. All the different actors who read each voice were great. Big theme of the story is love, addiction, family, and finding your passion on a back drop of sex, drugs, and rock n roll. Would highly recommend!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abortion, Addiction, Alcoholism, Grief, Drug use, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Sexual content

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Death

madeline_p4's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

2.5

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy and Abortion

erinwolf1997's review against another edition

emotional sad tense 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Abortion, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Pregnancy, Death of parent, and Terminal illness

annagerman's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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? Yes

4.0

This was just a fun time. 
I really liked the characters, there was a strong cast of likable supporting characters, some of them were more superficial but still enjoyable.
I loved the setting - I'm a sucker for the 70s.

I'm really glad I listened to the book on audio, the full cast was amazing and gave a really distinct voice to each character, with great emotional preformances. I'm not even sure I would have made it though the book otherwise, cause the interview format in written form seems a bit boring. But the audio made it believable and engaging.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Addiction

neliasbookshelf's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad tense 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Addiction, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, Grief, Emotional abuse, Death, Cursing, Alcohol, Pregnancy, Medical trauma, Violence, Toxic friendship, Suicidal thoughts, Drug use, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

escsmith's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

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

4.0

I really enjoyed this. It did take a while for me to get into, I don't think it was as easy for me to get into as TJR's other work. The narrative style was very unique and I enjoyed that change, particularly the element of very biased and unreliable narrators. 
I felt that the female voices in this were given a platform. Three completely different women finding their place in the world and happiness, that so clearly not being the same for each of them and all of the pain and struggles they went through to get there. 
Some of the characters were not very likeable and their attitudes really played into the dynamic of the band, I appreciated this aspect because I feel like this was much more realistic than them all being happy and friendly all the time. 
While reading it, I felt like it could genuinely have been a memoir, the line between fiction and real life felt very blurred. 
While I really enjoyed this, there are other TJR books that I enjoyed more. 

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Death

lilybarna's review against another edition

dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved the different narrators, helped me keep each voice separate! This book was a 3.75 read for me until the very end. That got me, I felt reflective after it and hoping for more of what happens next.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Abortion and Alcohol