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“An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy.”—Elin Hilderbrand
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Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.
Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.
Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.
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When I first heard about this book, and I was hearing great things, I thought it would be your normal novel about a 70’s rock band. I didn’t bother reading the synopsis or any reviews of this book. I just thought it would be one I’d want to read as I’m a big music lover and being in my teens in the 70’s, I especially loved rock music and many bands from that era, as well as from the 60’s. So, I was very excited when I received a review copy from NetGalley. Well, this is not your normal novel. I didn’t realize until I started reading it that it was an ORAL HISTORY of a fictional rock band. I actually loved this format. It made me think of the many rock documentaries of my favorite bands that I’ve watched on Netflix or Amazon. I felt like I really got to know each of the characters really well, and this format made it seem like I was reading about an actual band. This was unique and very well done. I was happy to hear that this will be made into a mini-series on Amazon. Cannot wait!
Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the review copy. All opinions are my own.
I’ve yet to read a book by Taylor Jenkins Reid that doesn’t completely capture and hold my attention so when I had a chance to sit down and read Daisy Jones & The Six I was hoping for the same reading experience. SPOILER ALERT: This reading experience was awesome. I sat down with this novel at the beginning of my weekend and let it steal hours away from my non-reading life so that I could read it.
I’m going to be honest with you, as always dear reader, and tell you that this isn’t your typical contemporary romance or even general fiction work–though if you’ve read any of TJR’s other works, you know that she doesn’t write the typical. This particular novel is written like an interview so you get to know the characters and their stories through a question and answer format. You won’t find exposition and the usual story arc but instead what you’ll find is that you’re picturing these characters and trying to match them up with a band that you’re familiar with. I won’t tell you which famous band I pictured but I’ll tell you that the image I had was strong and it enhanced the way I visualized all of this going down.
So while this isn’t really a traditional read, it was completely fascinating. I found myself really loving and rooting for some characters, exasperated with others, and completely amused by all of them at one time or another. I enjoyed feeling like I was a fly on the wall as these characters lived out their hugest dreams and struggled through their worst nightmares. And I definitely loved all the musician references and imagining what it would’ve been like to be a young musician living the lives they were living.
I enjoyed was the raw truths, the poetic lyrics, and the sometimes shallow and sometimes profound insights that these characters revealed. Strangely, or not, many of these things resonated with me and lingered in my head and I especially loved the lingering nostalgia and bittersweetness that seemed to hang around long after I was finished reading. I recently saw that Amazon picked this novel up to be a short series and I’m thrilled to see what they do with it.
Have you ever read a book that left you wrecked, gut-punched….a weepy mess? that’s how I feel right now, I have so many thoughts swirling in my head that I can’t figure out if I’m sad or happy. Last year when I read The Seven Wives of Evelyn Hugo, I was so deeply moved by the book, and going into this book I didn’t know if it would have the same effect on me…I think this book even surpassed that. The book is so raw and honest and gritty. There are no easy parts to this book, no peace amid the turmoil, as I was on edge the whole time. This book has such an interesting format, written as if it were an interview, a piece being written about the history of a rock band in the 70’s, which i think added an edge to the story, coming straight from the members of the band.
This book. Holy wow! How can one person top herself over and over again?!? I am blown away by Reid’s ability to write such engaging, real-life, entertaining, phenomenal stories, one after the other! I loved her last one, and the one before it… And I am in love with this one too!
Let me start with how realistic this book felt. You will probably think I am dumb, but I honestly forgot this book is a fictional book about a fictional band. It is told so vividly and accurately that I went and googled Daisy & the Six. I kid you not. I am not ashamed to admit it. I totally did!
The format of this book is completely different that any other book. It did take me a minute or five to get used to it, but once I did, there was no stopping those pages from turning. I can’t see this book told any other way. It was perfect for this story. And the why it was told this way does reveal itself towards the end, which made the story even more profound.
These characters. I was worried because of the way Reid was telling the story that I wouldn’t be able to connect to any of them. I was wrong. I connected to these characters so deeply. I didn’t want their story to end. I wanted everyone to have unicorns and rainbows by the end. I was totally invested in them throughout the entire book.
I want to address something about this book and early reviews I have seen. I don’t do this often, hardly ever, but I feel the need to point some things out. I have seen some mark this book with triggers. Let me be clear, there aren’t actual incidences where any form of a trigger warning would be necessary. This book is about a band in the 70s and 80s. If you know anything about that time, especially about bands in that era, it was sex, drugs, and rock n roll. This book depicts those things vividly, but not in detail. Does the book mention they do drugs? Yes. Does it mention promiscuous sex? Yes. Does it mention sex and females of questionable age? Yes. Notice I used the word mention. There aren’t details. There is a depiction of what was going on in that time era. So, if you see reviews that make you leary, I would take them lightly.
I think this book will be a top book of the year for me. I know, it’s early, but this book is THAT good. I can’t give it enough praise. I truthfully cannot think of a negative thing to say about it.
I really loved the premise of this story and how Taylor Jenkins Reid showed the everlasting, steadfast promise music makes to the world through her characters. I saw somewhere one reviewer called this book Reid’s “love letter to music” and I couldn’t agree more with that sentiment. This author digs to the hearts of her characters and through them and her beautiful words I was gifted a unique experience in reading with this newest release.
Unfortunately, the format slowed me down and tripped me up some. I really wish the story was written as prose in a more storytelling format rather than an interviewing/ documentary type format where we’re reading responses rather than dialogue. I think it would have been more well rounded and shown more depth and intimacy with the characters.
The themes of rising above, friendship, fame, hardships, losses and gains are ever present. Taylor Jenkins Reid doesn’t hold back on her characters and in turn gives the reader a gambit of emotions while we become acquainted. But while reading I never felt an overwhelming part of the story which is what I really strive for when sitting down with a book. Daisy Jones & The Six provides a great read though. I was interested the whole time and adored the characters and Reid’s specific development of them, particularly Billy. I definitely recommend this book for the fans of the author and fans of stories that illuminate the large role music plays in so many of our lives.
Told in an interview style about an iconic late seventies band, this book is impossible to put down. Lots of fun.
I can not say enough good things about this book. I absolutely loved this book, everything about it: the innovative structure and approach (brilliant!), the characters, the character development, the storyline, the music scene. And I especially loved the experience of reading it. A book hasn’t taken me “there” in a while and I love Taylor Jenkins Reid for writing this book. For going so out of the box and giving her readers something extraordinary. I can’t wait to see what Reese Witherspoon does with this story – can’t wait to see who is cast as Daisy, can’t wait to hear those songs performed. I’m 100% blown away.
I’m not even sure where to begin with this book. It’s just absolutely magical. Authentic. Real. Imaginative. Unique. So well written that you believe these characters are real and you find yourself wanting to search anything and everything out about them. That’s the kind of writing that takes an author from good to great and TJR hit it out of the park with this one.
Reid makes you fall in love with every single character in this book. The way she decided to tell this story was beyond brilliant. Having every story told by different views brought this story together in a way that almost seems impossible. It could not have been done another way though or it just wouldn’t pack the punch it does. The characters, the story, just all of it.
But this story isn’t just about a band. It’s about love, loss, heartbreak, addiction, and so much more. How someone could put so much into a story and make it flow so seamlessly is nothing short of wizardry and TRJ has the most powerful wand at her fingertips.
This is a story that will stick with you forever. You’ll be asking your friends if they read it. You’ll be shouting from the rooftops about how everyone needs to read this one because I know that’s what I am going to be doing for the next few months.