Have you heard all the hype about Daisy Jones and the Six and come to find out if it’s worth it? I share my thoughts in this Daisy Jones and the Six review so you can decide whether this book is for you!
Daisy Jones and the Six Summary
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.
Source: Penguin Random House.
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Daisy Jones and the Six Review
Daisy Jones & The Six was one of the most hyped contemporary books of 2019 and continues to be one of the most talked-about books on bookstagram.
It tells the story of a fictional rock and roll band through interview snippets with members of the band and people close to it. However, if you didn’t know it was fiction, you would almost certainly think this was based on true events.
In fact, I ended up looking up “Daisy Jones and the Six” on YouTube, hoping to find their songs, only to realise the band and its songs never actually existed.
That said, this fictional band is based on the real-life band Fleetwood Mac, so fans of that band are going to love this.
I was taken in by the unique style of storytelling from the very beginning. I didn’t like the characters much but I just couldn’t believe that Taylor Jenkins Reid had managed to make fiction seem like non-fiction and also make this form of writing so readable.
Most of the characters are quite self-absorbed, trying to tell the story in a way that paints them in a good light, which is what makes this all the more fascinating.
Each interview snippet is given by an unreliable narrator and you as the reader are left to piece the story together from the in-between pieces that are left unsaid.
It allows the reader to construct the story they want in their head based on the facts given by each character. This is a brilliant example that every coin has two sides and every story has multiple perspectives.
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To be honest, my interest waned a little in the middle when the story got comfortable and nothing much happened. But I kept reading and am glad I did because it went from strength to strength in the ending passages.
Whilst at first I simply appreciated the book for its unique style, I ended up loving it for its story, its characters and storytelling. That’s not to say I came around to *liking* the characters but I did feel I had got to know them all very well by the end and I found each of them pretty compelling.
Although Daisy and Billy are the key characters, or at least they were to the outside world in this fictional universe, the subplots and inner workings of the band as a whole were some of the most interesting parts to read.
All in all, I’d highly recommend Daisy Jones and the Six to anyone looking for a refreshing read that’s unlike anything they’ve read before. And I don’t say that lightly.
It’s certainly not for everyone as the style and story appear to be like marmite amongst reviewers but I sit firmly in the camp of those who have given this book high praise.
I can’t wait to dive into more of Taylor Reid Jenkins’ novels to see what else she can do!
p.s. I would have loved to have listened to this on audiobook as apparently it’s *even* better in that format.
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About Taylor Jenkins Reid
Taylor Jenkins Reid is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including Daisy Jones & The Six, Malibu Rising and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter.
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