Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid

93 reviews

msameliee's review against another edition

dark emotional 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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Addiction

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Fire/Fire injury, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Gun violence, Eating disorder, Car accident, and Miscarriage

m_parker9612's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Infidelity, Alcoholism, Grief, Death of parent, and Abandonment

Moderate: Fire/Fire injury, Sexual content, Emotional abuse, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Fatphobia, and Cursing

Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Car accident, Gun violence, and Infidelity

redefiningrachel's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Death, Death of parent, Infidelity, and Grief

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Pregnancy, Violence, Fire/Fire injury, and Medical content

Minor: Body shaming, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, and Blood

evan_all's review against another edition

inspiring lighthearted sad fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death of parent, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Fire/Fire injury, and Grief

Minor: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Blood, Pregnancy, Miscarriage, Sexual harassment, and Sexual content

lovealwaysadi's review against another edition

emotional reflective tense 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

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Misogyny, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Cursing, Grief, Death of parent, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child abuse, Classism, Pregnancy, Violence, and Car accident

Minor: Gun violence, Miscarriage, Abortion, Racism, Blood, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, and Medical content

chqrmspoken's review against another edition

lighthearted reflective fast-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

3.5

I really enjoyed the first part of the book where the reader found out mostly about the back stories of the characters in several flashbacks. When it came to the party, a lot of new characters were introduced in a short amount of time, which I suppose was done to mimick the way parties are - quick-paced, messy, overwhelming. If that was the goal, it was done phenomenally well, because I could not keep track of all these people for the life of me. I wanted to flip back a few pages to check if we'd been introduced to this person before, or not, but quite frankly, I did not care about any of them enough. 
I did care a lot about Nina, maybe I saw myself in her a little bit (too much?) and I understand that this is a realistic ending, as a reader it felt slightly anti-climatic. 
All in all: This was an okay book that I really enjoyed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Drug use, and Death of parent

Moderate: Violence and Sexual content

Minor: Gun violence

emi12's review

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

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Alcoholism, and Grief

Moderate: Cursing, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, and Panic attacks/disorders

clairew97's review against another edition

dark emotional funny sad 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

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Sexual harassment, Sexual assault, Alcohol, Car accident, Fatphobia, Alcoholism, Child abuse, Addiction, Death of parent, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Death, Infidelity, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Mental illness, Pregnancy, and Sexual content

bluedilly's review

lighthearted medium-paced

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

2.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Death of parent, and Infidelity

Moderate: Cursing, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual harassment, Police brutality, Death, Drug use, Pregnancy, Sexual content, and Chronic illness

Minor: Fire/Fire injury, Classism, Gun violence, Miscarriage, Sexism, Violence, Abortion, Blood, Car accident, Misogyny, and Racism

clarissa22's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted reflective sad fast-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Gun violence