Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is a very highly recommended account of sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll via the history and breakup of a legendary fictional 70's rock band. This one is a winner.Daisy Jones, the daughter of a famous artist and a French model, grew up in LA in the late 1960's. At fourteen she started hanging out at the famous clubs on the Sunset Strip and drinking and doing drugs followed. Her friend, disco singer Simone, is the only one trying to look out for her. Daisy is a free spirited "it" girl who is first noticed for her looks, but soon has her voice capturing the attention of those with influence and she is signed with Runner Records.Billy Dunne and his brother Graham started the band that eventually grew and took off to become The Six. Billy is the song writer and charismatic front man for the band and has artistic control over the group. On their first tour, Billy went wild and nearly ruined his marriage to Camila, who was pregnant with their first child. After the tour he went to rehab and his overwhelming goal beyond making it big with The Six, is to stay sober and faithful to Camila and their family.After they have one hit where Daisy sings with Billy on one of his songs, Runner Records decides that Billy and Daisy need to work together. While they are both dynamic on their own, when they sing together they are extraordinary, electric, and transcendent. Billy doesn't want Daisy as part of his band, but they end up working together writing the songs on the album that produced some of the biggest hits in the seventies. No one knew the story behind the band and the split that ended it all - until now.Daisy Jones & The Six is written like a documentary novel, an oral history, with quotes from the band members, Billy, Daisy, Camila, and Simone. All the characters are written with unique voices in their comments so you can tell who is talking even if you didn't note their name. While reading you can't help but envision the video in your mind, flipping between comments from the different people involved in Daisy Jones & The Six. This is part of what makes the book so amazing. You will easily believe this was a real band and real members are being interviewed. You will be surprised once you learn who is conducting the interviews and asking the questions.The plot unfolds through the oral history interviews, starting with their beginnings up to their rise to fame. Reid definitely sets her story in the time and place of the late sixties to the late seventies. The clashes, struggles, and power of Billy and Daisy working together, writing the music, is captured perfectly. This really is a riveting and unforgettable novel; my attention was captured right at the start and held fast to the end. Remarkably, at the end of the book Reid has written all the lyrics for the songs. Need I mention that the writing is amazing? Well, it is an incredibly well-written book and captured my attention from beginning to end. I simple could not read it fast enough as I was desperate to learn what happened next.(When I first read the synopsis for Taylor Jenkins Reid's Daisy Jones & The Six, I immediately tried to get a review copy as I knew it would be a novel I would love. I never did get the advanced reading copy, but I was right to try as this is an amazing novel. Now I need to find time to read Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.)

Book condition: Book was new and without any misprints or physical blemishes.Book Review: I don’t know how TJR does it but both books I’ve read by her had me fully invested and I just couldn’t put it down! There’s just something about her writing style that just instantly draws you in and immerses you within the story she’s telling. This genre isn’t one I’d usually pick but so far she has yet to disappoint! I know some people weren’t a fan of the fact that the book reads like an interview transcript, but I think it was a nice change of pace. Most books are told solely from the POV of one main character and we see the other characters and the plot through their eyes. In this case, I kind of liked how with the transcripts we hear from everybody at once and you can see the differences of how someone told themselves it happened and how others saw it happen. Did we get to dig deep into the characters the way we did in her Evelyn Hugo book? No, but considering how many characters there were in this one I don’t see how it would have worked without making the book longer than it needed to be. Was the book as emotional as some made it out to be? Once again, no, not in my opinion. Yes the ending was sad, but not so much that I was ready to shed a tear. Also the interviewer plot twist kind of reminded me of the set up for her Evelyn Hugo book too and in a way felt unnecessary. I enjoyed the fact that she included the full lyrics to the songs she wrote for the book at the end so you can read them fully to connect with and understand those parts of the story better. I don’t quite know how I feel about the ending yet. It almost feels like both the band and the story came to an abrupt end, but that may be the point. That just, like in real life, not all stories have a happy fairy tale ending. At least not in the way you may think or hope it would end. Although with that, I do kind of like that everyone individually seemed to find their own version of happiness in the end. Now that I have finished the book, I’d like to watch the show and see if it did the book justice. I wasn’t as obsessed with this book as I was with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, but it was still a great book! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Love this book. It is set up interview style which is so fun. It takes a little bit to adjust to that narrative but once you do it is a nice twist. Love the correlations between the characters and Fleetwood Mac but also love the creative twists like the ending.

Having adored "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo," I couldn't resist diving into another masterpiece by Taylor Jenkins Reid— "Daisy Jones and the Six."I have never read a book in this format before. It is written like an interview transcript, with multiple POVs. I opted for the audiobook, narrated by a stellar cast, which turned out, in my opinion, to be the best way to immerse yourself in this unique narrative.TJR skillfully captured the electric atmosphere of music writing, live performances, and the good and the ugly of rising to fame. It is a wonderfully written love letter to 70's rock and roll.I found myself deeply moved by the intricacies of each character. There is so much depth and beauty in how Daisy, Billy, and Camilla's characters were written, and how their lives are intertwined.The Amazon Prime adaptation did a great job with the casting choice and song renditions, but I personally did not appreciate the deviations from the original story.𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐈𝐅 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐋𝐈𝐊𝐄🎸 Unconventional storytelling🎸 Flawed characters🎸 Will They, Won't They?🎸 70's Rock🎸 Multiple POVs

Nao tem orelha. De resto, eu adorei a grafia, super gostosa de ler e escritora fácil. Amei!

Llegó en perfectas condiciones, un día antes de lo dicho!!Respecto a la lectura, no estaba muy convencida del tipo de narración, pero una vez comenzado no he podido dejarlo. Me encanta Taylor Jenkins, sus libros no han decepcionado y me fascina el mundo diferente que crea en cada uno de sus libros👏🏻👏🏻

Not the kind of book I usually read, but I really enjoyed it! The plot is interesting enough, but I really enjoyed the writing style more than anything! Loved the format and storytelling!

Really enjoyed the book and promptly after watched the tv series! Both definitely worth it