Jaclyn’s Review: Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & the Six
written by Taylor Jenkins Reid
published by Ballantine Books, 2019

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Did I enjoy this book? Wow! This book was on all the book club lists and was recommended to me by a friend, so I had high hopes for this one. I opened the book and thought there is no way I’m going to like this format! This book is written as the transcript of an interview with different members of the band The Six as well as Daisy Jones. I was positive that there was no way I could enjoy a book that reads like a movie script. How do you understand the setting? How does the plot advance? As all of this skepticism is running through my mind, I realized I was halfway through the book! Somehow the author has artfully woven the narrative so that you feel like you are a member of the band, like you are an audience member at a concert. I’ve never read a book like this before, and I’m not sure I ever will again. This book was delightful!!

Would I recommend it? Absolutely! I have been singing the praises of this book (pun intended) to everyone I meet. This was such a great book! I’ve heard that it will become an Amazon limited series and even have the actual music written as well. I can’t wait!!!
 

 

About the book – from Goodreads: 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 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.

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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