Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

87 reviews

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

Moderate: Infidelity

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

emmysforeverbooked's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense slow-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

4.0

This book. Oh my gosh, this book.

I laughed, I cried, I screamed, I wanted to throw it in the garbage. This book just had everything I've ever wanted. This book was so intense, it was just... magical. I loved this book. It is genuinely my only personality trait right now.

Click the spoiler to see why I only rated it 4 stars!

The reason I didn't give this book 5 stars was solely because the two main characters knew how to piss me off in a way that would bring my rating down. Mostly Billy's cheating and the emotional stress he put on his wife, and overall just a lot of Daisy's decisions in general. I loved every other character in this cat though. Warren and Graham will forever have my heart. But those two MCs...

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Grief, and Abortion

Minor: Chronic illness, Sexual content, and Injury/Injury detail

kelsiejankowski's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful mysterious 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? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abandonment and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Blood

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

samantha_06x's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny sad 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

3.75

I had high expectations going into this book as I have read The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and that book was a perfect 5 star read for me. I love the authors' style of writing it really hooks you in immediately and everyone raved about this book so I wanted read it and see what all the fuss was about. 
I will start with what I loved about the book so that I can make it clear that I did enjoy reading it and I don't think this was a bad book. I really enjoyed the interview format and how we were easily able to get into the character's heads while hearing them tell their own stories. This allowed me to get connected with the characters and added a sense of realism to the book as you just know that this is how actual interviews would be executed. The book also played with the idea of unreliable narrators as they are retelling the story years after the events, most of them were on something during the events and they may not even want to share everything with the audience and be so exposed. This allowed for a different style of comedy with the characters contradicting each other during their interviews and showing that often people remember what pleases themselves. Obviously the author did not invent the interview style of writing but it is definitely not done enough and contributed to my enjoyment of this book. 
As well as this I liked the introduction of the characters (specifically the first 2 chapters). I read on a kindle and before buying a book I like to read a sample so that I can decide if I want to continue reading. When I read the sample of the book I immediately bought the book to continue reading and it is not often that samples make me instantly buy a book. 

What I didn't like about the book was the repetition at least for me I felt towards the middle of the book it was a lot of the same things. Billy and Daisy arguing, writing music and everyone is high and drunk, I don' t think the intention was to glamorise substance abuse as the book highlights the issues that stem from it and Billy's struggle with staying sober. However I have seen this argued in other reviews. Potentially the repetition came from the fact that I read this in 2 days, maybe if I read it over a week it would be more tolerable so that will be something to consider when rereading. 

Overall the book was a solid 3.75 it wasn't a 4 because I felt that books in the past I have rated 4 stars were books that I enjoyed a lot more than this one. But it was a good read that I mostly enjoyed and would reread again. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Abortion, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Grief

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

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

anielabooks's review against another edition

hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing 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 enjoyed this book very much. The audiobook format really sold it for me. The plot was entertaining, and the dialogue was engaging. It felt like watching the documentary of a famous band after they’ve broken up. I’m motivated to watch the Amazon prime series after finishing. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Sexism, Terminal illness, Blood, Vomit, Grief, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail