April 25, 2019 | No Comments
Daisy Jones and the Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Date Published: March 5, 2019
Published By: Ballantine Books
Page Count: 355
Publisher’s Description:
A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.
Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they 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 and 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.
Another band getting noticed is The Six, 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 the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
My Star Rating:
My Review:
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Full cast audio made this a highly interesting and immersive audio read. Well done.
There’s a lot to say for this book. It was a lot like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in the way it was organized like a sort of interview, media tell-all, sort of fictional autobiography. You got the history of this 70s rock star group, how they came to be, how they lived with fame and success, and how they fell apart, with all the sordid details along the way. Drugs, sex, rock and roll. Choices and consequences.
I liked how real this story seemed. How real the emotions were, like between Billy Dunn and Camilla and even Billy Dunn and Daisy Jones. And I think Karen Karen, the keyboard player, was maybe my favorite character. Every character had such vivid personality that stayed consistent throughout, it was all very realistic and believable.
Also, the level of detail the author put into the lives and the music scene. The jargon for that particular field, and even the tiny details like how 22 minutes of song could go on one side of a record album and they had to time things just right. The way we got to delve into how they wrote their songs, what was happening in their lives at the time the songs were written, and how they evolved into this larger than life piece of success and fame.
This was a book that had me interested from start to finish. The writing was just really well-done. I think if you enjoyed Evelyn Hugo, you’re bound to love Daisy Jones. It’s drama, gossip, such flawed, dynamic, and interesting characters. Definitely a hit.