Stop crying this is what I say myself, this book is everything!I loved it so much!It's captivating,addictive,unforgettable and original.Taylor Jenkins Reid doesn’t stop to amaze me every time I start a new book by her!

Daisy Jones is a perplexed , unique and interesting heroine.The way the story was told was brilliant and refreshing! I felt a part of this story and I loved this world !

“We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones.”

This is definitely a must read!

I feel 1000 times cooler by extension just from reading this book. I was immediately transported into the 70’s music scene- sex, drugs, and rock n roll at its finest! These characters were so realistic, and the interview format made it all feel so real, that I had to keep reminding myself while I was reading that it was fiction. Loved everything about this book- TJR does it again!

I grew up listening to 70’s rock and roll with my dad, and while reading this book I kept wanting to look up everything I possibly could on Daisy Jones and the Six. I had to keep taking a step back and remember, this isn’t a real band, but oh how I wish they were. This book was exquisite, the writing was magnificent and I adored everything about Daisy and Billy. Don’t ever stop writing Taylor, I beg you.

I read a lot. More than your average person for sure. I love reading. I love getting lost in stories. I love finding books that change me and my views on life. It doesn’t happen often. When it does it’s an amazing feeling. Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid did just that. WHAT A BOOK! It’s RIVETING, it’s ADDICTIVE, it’s ORIGINAL and EXCEPTIONAL! Ms. Reid delivered another book that blew me away completely.

“Songs are about how it felt, not the facts. Self-expression is about what it feels to live, not whether you had the right to claim any emotion at any time.”

Daisy Jones & The Six is a rockumentary—a tell all of a fictional seventies rock band, their rise to success, their journey of becoming one of the biggest bands in the world, and their consequential break-up. Told by multiple characters, you will get lost in one of the most fascinating, intriguing, and honest stories you’ll ever read. Once you start it, you can’t look away. It’s a book about rock and roll, drugs, sex, and the 70s—but it’s so much more. Its a story about family, success, and the downside of fame. It’s a love story, an epic one. I’m gonna use the words of Don Henley here, “I thought I knew what love was… What did I know?” Love is such a complicated emotion. It evolves, it changes, it slips through your fingers at times, and saves you from yourself at other times.

“Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch. That’s why it’s a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else’s. It’s sacred.”

This story took me to a time and place before my time. It felt real, I found myself wishing to be at their concerts, watching Billy and Daisy sing live. Experiencing it front row and getting lost as they sang their souls and hearts out, giving their world a piece of themselves with every single performance. The characters are so multi dimensional and authentic that I actually googled them, wondering if they exist. I wanted them to be real, so I could put their album on and get lost in the lyrics. Can you be a groupie for a fictional band? Is that even possible? #AskingForAFriend #SignMyTitsBilly 😍 This story kept me on the edge, it broke my heart, mended it, broke it again. Just when I thought I had it all figured out, it delivers another twist that put everything in a whole new perspective. I cried, I smiled, rubbed that achy spot on my chest multiple times. I officially became a fan of a fictional band!!! This story left me with an epic #BookHangover and I’m not ready to let go of the phenomenal imaginary world created by this uber talented author.

“I fell in love with the wrong guy who was exactly the right guy. And I had made decisions time and time again that made it worse and never made it better. And I’d finally pushed myself right over the edge.”

Every time TJR announces a new book. I get excited but I’m also a bit wary. Will I like this? This sounds different, I’m not sure… I really should just trust this woman by now. Her books are exceptional, different, complex and powerful. Her characters are flawed, genuine and beautiful. Her books are authentic, smart, devastating, and unforgettable. I can’t even imagine the amount of research she puts into every single book, her knowledge and attention to details is stunning.

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I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six, and I fell in love with the band and this story. I became a groupie. Went to all their concerts. I was consumed with every single character and their parts of this intricately woven story of rock and roll, fame, music, and love! Don’t miss this book!

Taylor Jenkins Reid employs a one-of-a-kind point-of-view that couldn't be more masterful. The novel is the working copy of the band's memoir in its heyday told by everyone--a masterful storytelling device. It is also an homage to classic rock 'n roll--any fan of the 70s will devour this novel.

"Music can dig, you know? It can take a shovel to your chest and just start digging until it hits something."

In perfect song-writing fashion, Reid finds a way to create the most perfect metaphors, and the lyrics to the songs are a treat to every poetry and song lover.

"Which is what we all want from art, isn't it? When someone pins down something that feels like it lives inside us."

The stories behind the lyrics make us all think about just how much of a musician's soul is poured into the lyrics that become mundane when sang over and over. They also reveal the potential very real struggles that the glittery outside can hide. The novel reminds us that what we see on the outside may be masking what's really there. It also helps to un-glamorize the sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll mantra that can so easily be longed for. The mirage of happiness is easy shattered when the true identities of the rich and famous are exposed. This is DEFINITELY worth the read, and Taylor Jenkins Reid has become a MASTER at historical fiction. Turn on some classic rock and enjoy this wonderful debut!

"But the only reason people thought I had everything is because I had all the things you could see." -Daisy Jones.

*Thank you to NetGalley for the ARC. #netgalley #daisyjonesandthesix

I will never be able to say enough about this book. I had high expectations going into this after the beauty that was Evelyn Hugo. Big shoes were left, and I'll admit I was concerned that TJR had set her bar too high. Enter DJ&TS to totally make me eat my thoughts. I fell in love with these characters. I felt their pain when they were hurt and I felt their joy when they succeeded.

I loved that this book reads like a Behind The Music from VH1. I was nervous to see that whole book was written as an interview, but it made the book move very quickly. One piece of dialogue fed into the next piece, as if they were all in conversation and feeding off of each other. I'm curious to know if TJR had a specific icon in mind when writing this, or if Daisy is just a wild imagination of what life was like in the 70s. Either way, this is one of my favorite books I've read so far this year!

This is NOT to be missed. Pick up your copy ASAP! Thank you to Random House from my advance copy. All thoughts are my own.

I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This was an interesting read for me. A different format than I'm used to, for sure. It is written entirely in an interview format...almost a documentary style which allows you several points of view simultaneously, however, for me, it lead a bit to a disconnect as it didn't allow for a real in depth exploration of feelings with any one character. I mean, I felt for the characters...Ms. Reid does an excellent job of making you feel for the characters and their plights, but it might have packed a bigger punch if it were a solid narrative.

Be that as it may, it was still an enjoyable read. And a throwback playlist to jam to as well, lol! 4 stars.

Daisy Jones & The Six was such a fun and enjoyable read. The format of the book is really interesting as the story is like a documentary tell all by the band members. It was easy to get into the style and you just feel like this is a real band you are reading about. The character Daisy herself is so troubled but so talented you just fall in love with her. I love anything to do with the 70's and often think I would have enjoyed being a teenager during this time so this book really transported me to that time. Taylor Jenkins Reid is such a wonderful storyteller and I love all the details she puts into her books and characters. Another winner with this book.

Totally devoured this awesome book! I want a movie or TV series ASAP! The author takes us to the 70's perfectly and I am a child of the 70's! The world-famous rock band and it's beautiful lead singer take us for a fun ride from cover to THE END! This book will work for a wide audience of readers and genres. A great read!

I was truly captivated by this story, the characters & the writting style that had me devour this book over the weekend.

The reader is sucked right into a rock documentary where you find yourself transported right into the 1970’s rock music scene. The writing is done so well I found myself wanting to buy the album’s.

Reid really adds layers to the characters making you invested in each of them. The sex, drugs, & rock n roll lifestyle is all there in addition to some words of wisdom that stick with you & plot twist that keep you turning the pages.

Don’t miss out on getting to know the fictional rock stars everyone will be talking about!

I kept having to tell myself this book was fiction because it FELT real! The characters felt real, the times of late 60's early 70's were depicted accurately, and the interview style of writing made everything seem true. I seriously was wondering if I had somehow missed knowing about this band!! I really, really wanted to hear their music, go to their concerts, know of them when they were on top.

I think the interview-style of writing is the main thing that contributed to the book's authentic feeling. I loved that we saw the epilogue of how all the band members ended up.

I'll be surprised if this book isn't a best seller. I loved it!

"The truth often lies, unclaimed, in the middle."

I WILL NEVER GET OVER THIS BOOK!!! All the stars to Taylor Jenkins Reid! Everything about this book was a pure delight. I absolutely loved the format! The book is told as a series of interviews with Daisy Jones, a singer and songwriter, as well as with the members of The Six, a seventies rock band. Also included are interviews with their closed friends, managers, wives, journalists and significant others. I was riveted!

Daisy was a lost soul when she met up with the members of The Six but yet she was always a brilliant songwriter and singer in her own right. There is a huge clash of egos when she is asked to join the band and this inside look at this fictional band is how I always imagined real-life bands behaving. Daisy is both strong and fragile, and brilliant but terribly insecure.

"I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story."

I was transported back to my teen years listening to seventies rock & roll while reading this book. The story evoked feelings of longing, loss and the rush of hearing a really great song for the first time. The book focuses on the meteoric rise of The Six and what it took in the seventies to make it big. The importance of magazines like 'Rolling Stone' and radio airplay seems irrelevant now but that is what made rock musicians superstars years ago. And the non-stop partying is not shied away from here. It's a wonder anyone ever made it out alive.

“I can’t think of any two things that make you quite as self-absorbed as addiction and heartbreak. I had a selfish heart. I didn’t care about anyone or anything but my own pain. My own need. My own aching. I’d have made anyone hurt if it could have taken some of mine away. It’s just how sick I was.”

I also was enthralled by the book's three very strong female protagonists. Daisy, Karen and Camila each had their own way of coping with fame, addiction, love and heartbreak. They all felt VERY real to me and I felt like I was reading a non-fiction biography of a favorite rock band. But the main focus of the book was the relationship between Daisy and Billy, the lead singer and songwriter for of The Six. Their chemistry was volatile and they both brought out the best and the worst in each other. Yet the music they made together was pure magic.

"You know how sometimes people will describe other people and say they make you feel like you’re the only one in the room? Billy and Daisy could both do that. But they somehow did it with each other. They each seemed like they thought the other one was the only person in the room. Like we were watching two people who didn’t realize thousands of people were watching them."

This book is creative, surprising, heartbreaking and uplifting. I can't recommend it highly enough! Of course there was a stunning twist that I never saw coming. I still have a book hangover a week after finishing and I can't stop thinking and Daisy, Bill and The Six. This is also the rare book that I have read and also plan to listen to on audio. Don't miss this book! 5+++++ stars.

“Oh, honey, I can wait/
To call that home/
I can wait for the blooms and the honeycomb.”

For better or worse Daisy Jones & The Six is a big departure from Taylor Jenkins Reid’s 2017 bestseller The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and though I’m sure this one will do equally well commercially, I’m not convinced that it will win the hearts of quite as many readers. The format takes some getting used to – it’s a series of interviews woven together from members of a Fleetwood Mac-inspired fictional band, and as such the entire novel is essentially told in dialogue. I’m not sure every reader will be able to get over that hurdle and settle into the novel’s rhythm, but I ended up really enjoying this.

I do have a few qualms, so let’s get those out of the way. While I thought the interview format was ultimately the right choice for this story, it led to a few awkward passages, as the only descriptions of setting we got were from the characters themselves, and there were some moments that felt wildly inauthentic to me – someone remembering exactly what a character was wearing 30 years ago, or describing a perfectly ordinary occurrence with a kind of poetic language that didn’t ring true for the circumstances in which the interview was being conducted. I know that Taylor Jenkins Reid probably had to take some poetic license here lest her dialogue come across as flat and stilted, but it didn’t always work for me.

I also wasn’t terribly impressed with the construction of the supporting characters; all of the male characters were essentially interchangeable, and I found myself frustrated with Camila’s portrayal as this utter paragon of goodness (I’m glad Taylor Jenkins Reid didn’t want to pigeonhole her into the ‘jealous wife’ role, but I think she overcompensated too much in the other direction – she was just unrealistically stolid).

Sorry, that was a lot of negativity for a book I ultimately enjoyed. Let’s get to the good stuff. This is a glorious portrayal of the 70s rock scene in LA; not to fall back on a cliche and say that this book is all about sex, drugs, and rock and roll, but it kind of is, in a way that felt both nuanced and convincing. No one does atmosphere quite like Taylor Jenkins Reid – in both of her novels that I’ve read I’ve just been so immersed into a period of twentieth century history that I didn’t think I cared all that much about, only to be riveted by her ability to evoke time and place, and use the setting to explore such brilliant character dynamics.

Which brings us to the other wonderful thing about this book. The chemistry between the band’s two leads, Daisy and Billy, leaps off the page – if you aren’t forcibly drawn into their thorny dynamic I don’t even know what to tell you. And one last note: Karen! I cannot even explain how delighted I was to see a female character who knows she does not want children and knows her own mind enough that she’s never questioned it. I feel like narratives about women not wanting children are often fraught with self-doubt, and it’s not that I think these narratives are unrealistic, but they don’t speak for every woman who decides to remain childless, and I just have never been happier with a portrayal of this than in this book.

So all in all, a mixed bag, but the good really did outweigh the bad for me, and I ultimately thought this was fun and quietly tragic all at once.

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.

I received this ARC from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Daisy Jones & the Six is a departure from Taylor Jenkins Reid's previous books, most notably The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and is unlike any book I have read before. It is the story of a rock band's rise to fame in the 70s and all of sex and drugs that accompany the stardom, song writing, and touring. It examines the push and pull of stability as the characters grow together as a band while continuing to struggle with their personal vices, which leads to the abrupt break up of the band. It is a story of love, faithfulness (and lack thereof), life as a spouse of the leader of the band, sobriety, tension -- and it all felt real.

I love that this is written as if it is a real story of a real rock band, recounted through an oral history of interviews, with conflicting memories from the characters of how things played out and what was said. The characters were extremely well developed -- all complex and flawed, but captivating, each in their own way.

As a 90s baby, I was not very familiar with life in the 70s and the rock and roll era. Daisy Jones & The Six made me feel much more connected to that culture and time period, and the life of a rock band.

I give Daisy Jones & The Six 4 stars because I kept putting the book down through the first half. It felt slow and I had a hard time connecting to the drug use that is a very central part of the story. Daisy's trip to Thailand and the character introduced from that adventure felt forced and far fetched as a means to add another level of complexity to her story.

This book was not at all what I expected, which I loved, and I recommend that everyone read it, regardless of your interest in the 70s and rock bands.

Thank you Net Galley and Ballentine for an e-ARC of this title in exchange for my honest review. I also had the opportunity recently to hear the author speak about the book. It was then I realized she'd also written "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo," which I'd also loved. What happened to the 70s group, Daisy Jones and The Six back at the height of their fame? They say the truth always has 3 sides: Yours, mine and the truth. This book has a journalist talking with the former band and crew members about that time in their lives. It's a very unique writing style and Jenkins Reid makes it work. This was so well done in making me believe the characters and the story that I honestly had to Google to find out if they were real. Then, I just thought I was missing it, and I Googled it AGAIN. This is going be THE book talked about this season, and I highly recommend you jump on this nostalgic, unique tour.

Daisy Jones & The Six is my most anticipated read of 2019 and I was lucky enough to receive an ARC from NetGalley. I have been a long-time fan of Taylor Jenkins Reid's writing style and she is an auto-buy author for me. Daisy is written in the style of a tell-all interview several years after the Rock & Roll band has found and lost or given up their success. This book is Valley of the Dolls meets Janis Joplin meets Fleetwood Mac. I highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a good time in the era of Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll.

My personal favorite character was Karen, who just seemed the most fleshed out and real to me of all the characters. I also really enjoyed the complete and total woman power and vibe of support the whole book had.

As always TJR delivers a subtle yet moving plot twist that will leave you in your feelings for days after you finish. Not to mention the included song lyrics for the band's album Aurora that have me hoping they are taking auditions for an actual Daisy Jones and the Six right now. I would stream that album on Spotify or play it on Vinyl while I curl up in my library and reread Daisy just to see what I might have missed the first time through.

I received a copy of Daisy Jones & The Six from Book Sparks and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Daisy Jones is about the rise and eventual breakup of a fictional rock band fronted by Daisy Jones and Billy Dunne in the 1970s. While there is plenty about the rock and roll lifestyle, it is ultimately a love story. It is told like an interview between the band mates, producers, friends and supporters in 2012, 33 years after the band's breakup.

There were lots of references to The Six's songs and I had a difficult time imagining what they might sound like in real life. I also found the interview style of writing a little hard to follow. I was able to keep up with all the band mates and other major characters, but there were lots of ancillary characters that I just could not keep straight.

I wanted to love this book! I wanted to give it five stars, but unfortunately, I have read so many other books in the band biography/autobiography genre that this one fell short a star for me.

The way this book is written didn't really work for me. Interview-like writing style made it choppy for me to read and after half of the book I still had no clear picture who Daisy was, except for a rich spoiled girl.

The writing style made it impossible to really connect with Daisy or any of the other characters and I didn't feel much for any of them. It pains me to say that I didn't like this story at all. It may work well on-screen or even as audiobook. It just didn't work in written words for me.

I struggled with this one soooo bad. It took me EONS to read this book (10 days when I can read a book in 2-3). Maybe it was because of the format and how it was written in interview format. Maybe it was because I wasn't vested in the characters. None of them were completely likable... I think I felt the most bad for Graham and Karen's situation. And Camilla because she was such a great mom to her children and an amazing wife and support system to Billy. Sadly I just felt nothing about the story overall.

This book was just okay. The book only started to get interesting to me around the 70-75% point, but overall the story fell flat for me. I have seen so many great reviews so it could be the instance of this is me and not the book. But truthfully it saddens me after loving some of Taylor Jenkins Reid's books.

I think TJR is an amazing writer and has definitely written different stories to show readers her storytelling genius. This one just didn't work for me. I finished it because at the point where it finally turned around for me, I wanted to see how it would end for everyone.

I'm interested to see how this works out for tv... I think I would enjoy that format more than I did this unfortunately. :(