Reviews tagging 'Toxic relationship'

Tout ce que je sais sur l'amour by Dolly Alderton

40 reviews

clara01's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

4.0

I highly recommend reading this book, it's definitely worth it if you're a woman in your 20s still figuring life out. I laughed, gasped and cried.

I found the first half to be a bit confusing especially with all the time jumps. At one point she's 20 and then rewind to when Dolly is 15 and the fast forward to the next boyfriend, I got quite lost. 
The 2nd half of the book I loved. It's written so intimately I felt like I was really seeing inside Dolly's 20-something head and holding onto every bit of advice she gave.

I'm 22 now but maybe I'll reread this book in a year or 2 and see if there's more I can take from it. At the moment all I can think is I wish I had the love of a friendship group like Dolly's.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Grief, Death, Drug use, Cancer, Eating disorder, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Self harm

Minor: Toxic relationship

valeriedittrich's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful reflective medium-paced

3.5

i feel like if i read this at like 21 and not 25, some of it would hit a little harder for me. love dolly though and some parts really resonated with me! will for sure read more of her work

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcohol, Toxic relationship, and Mental illness

mangofraiche's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Drug use, Grief, Alcoholism, and Cancer

joensign's review against another edition

funny hopeful reflective slow-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

Moderate: Cancer, Death, and Toxic relationship

grace33's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Alcohol, and Cancer

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Alcoholism

aleilvandrea's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring relaxing sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Addiction, Alcohol, Eating disorder, Death, Child death, Body shaming, and Cancer

Moderate: Toxic relationship, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Grief, Mental illness, and Fatphobia

ceedy's review against another edition

funny reflective sad medium-paced

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism

Moderate: Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, and Eating disorder

yilliun's review against another edition

funny reflective medium-paced

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcoholism, Mental illness, and Eating disorder

Moderate: Cancer, Toxic relationship, and Fatphobia

kyrstin_p1989's review against another edition

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

3.0

Funny and endearing yet somewhat unrelatable. Having never been the party girl, Dolly’s life full of antics didn’t resonate with me. Even still, her viewpoints on love were consistently spot on. Dolly also uses a lot of English pop culture references and refers to places in England that I’m unfamiliar with, so, it was hard to determine what she was talking about in several places. The bond that she has with her girlfriends is admirable and makes me pine for those types of female friendships myself. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Cursing, Sexual content, Misogyny, Infidelity, Alcohol, Death, Toxic relationship, Sexism, Bullying, Cancer, Body shaming, Drug use, Vomit, and Eating disorder

dana_21857's review against another edition

adventurous funny lighthearted reflective fast-paced

2.5

Entertaining, but no red string

No real concept

All over the place

Random skips ahead and back in time

Im at the stage with love she is at 30 now, so it's wildy unrelatable to me, but that's just personal

I wanted to love this book, that's why I didn't dnf but it did disappoint a little bit

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Cancer and Drug use

Minor: Eating disorder and Panic attacks/disorders