Reviews tagging 'Terminal illness'

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

103 reviews

theotheleo's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.75

I really liked this book. I love Reid's writing, but it felt a little disjointed. I was invested but not excited

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Mental illness, Alcoholism, Death, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Sexism

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Pregnancy, Terminal illness, Chronic illness, Death, Child abuse, Medical content, Blood, Fatphobia, Abortion, and Pedophilia

lilyemmaaa's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Abortion, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Alcoholism, Alcohol, and Death

Minor: Terminal illness, Car accident, Domestic abuse, and Eating disorder

leyendoentremontanias's review against another edition

emotional inspiring 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? Yes

5.0

This audiobook deserves multiple awards. Beautifully handcrafted.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Drug use, Addiction, Alcoholism, Eating disorder, Infidelity, and Self harm

Moderate: Terminal illness, Sexism, Death, Misogyny, and Abortion

Minor: Vomit

prettybaddieb's review against another edition

adventurous funny inspiring tense 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

5.0

This was an incredible read! Devoured this book! As a musician/singer/songwriter myself I really enjoyed this. Loved the journey TJR always takes me through in her book/, im just so in love with her writing style. You really feel like you’re there and start to believe they’re a real band. It’s just incredible! 5 stars deserved.

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Toxic relationship, Abortion, Terminal illness, and Emotional abuse

Minor: Death of parent and Death

creativelifeofliz's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

In many ways, I'm not sure why I like this book so much. It was so intensely readable (I listened to it, which might be part of it) and I think I'll look back on the story in the future. 

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Grief, Pregnancy, Abortion, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent, Mental illness, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Terminal illness, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, and Rape

calisbooklog's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Pregnancy, Abortion, and Misogyny

Minor: Terminal illness

cheyneflynn's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.0

For the record, this was SO much better than The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I feel like the concept held strong throughout the book and I actually like the first hand accounts of the story. It wasn’t just massive slabs of: then I felt like, then I said, and I did this. 
However I still don’t get the point of

doing a surprise like, “oh and the author of this book is Billy’s daughter OMG”

 
Like what is the obsession, it really displaces my focus from the book. It added nothing emotional for me personally. 
I also think some of the other band members could’ve been described more. Or even focused on their own things more throughout the story, but that’s me. Overall it was good and I enjoyed it 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Eating disorder, Addiction, Drug use, Alcohol, Drug abuse, and Alcoholism

Minor: Death, Grief, Abortion, Toxic relationship, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Sexism, and Terminal illness

blinkatie's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

I loved the way this was written. The interview style was really interesting. I think it was cool to get a peak inside the music scene of the 70s. Obviously fiction, but it was definitely inspired by real bands at the time. I thought it was overall a good story of finding yourself and how to love people well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Drug abuse, Drug use, Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, and Violence

Moderate: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Domestic abuse, Terminal illness, and Mental illness

amndaj'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? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

First, I highly recommend audiobook. The voice actors are phenomenal and really sell all the characters. I could see this being harder to read than it was listen to, but it was like watching a movie when using audiobook.

I appreciated the storytelling method of using multiple characters and how they saw the events. I loved that they contradicted eachother at times too. I love that I shifted my opinion of characters over time and that she wrote about love as it is in reality sometimes -- messy, but good.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

Moderate: Terminal illness

danziellia's review against another edition

dark inspiring reflective 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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Moderate: Terminal illness, Infidelity, Domestic abuse, Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Eating disorder, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Adult/minor relationship