3.5 stars

I've spent a long time considering what to say about this book. Maybe it was all the hype and 5-star reviews or the fact that I've loved all of TJR's other books, but this one didn't quite work for me. I enjoyed the interview format because it felt like a music documentary, but I think it left me feeling disconnected from some of the minor characters. TJR did an amazing job making the lead characters come to life and I constantly wanted to look them up to see pictures before I remembered they weren't real after all. Maybe this book wasn't for me or it was a case of the right book at the wrong time, but I'm still glad I read it.

Belated #finishedbookfriday DAISY JONES & THE SIX. It was one of those books that makes you wish you wrote it. It’s done completely in the style of a documentary with each character remembering and looking back on their wild ride to stardom in a 70s rock band. I listened to a lot of Fleetwood Mac while reading, the rock n’ roll drama made me wish this was a real band. I hear it’s going to be made into an @amazonprimevideo mini-series (which it is perfect for!) thanks for a great read @tjenkinsreid and @randomhouse

I couldn't put Daisy Jones and the Six down! OMG !!! It's so good. I had to slow myself down from reading it because I wanted to savor it so much.

I wish that Daisy Jones and the Six were real. I want to go to one of their concerts, listen to their albums and just become a fangirl of Daisy. I did though become a fangirl of Taylor Jenkins Reid. :)

Well I really did become a fangirl of Daisy.

I loved how Taylor Jenkins Reid made it feel real. She takes you through a journey of people who knew Daisy Jones and the Six and made them up. Wow! I love the oral history transcript of the whole book. It kept my attention and I wanted more. Oh my goodness I wanted more. It's like going back to the VH1 Behind the Music and learning about Daisy Jones and the Six.

You get the love, sex and drugs. The triumphs, the heartbreaks and oh the drama. It well represents the 70s!

Let me preface this review with the fact that I am not a huge music fan. I listen to books, not songs. Yet this tale of a 1970's rock band is an obsessive page-turner. Reid pulls us in through her unique plot design - documentary style as she 'interviews' the band, family members, and managers to tell the tale of how this rock band hit it big. Her characters are shockingly well-developed, considering we only get to know them through their conversations with the documentarian asking the questions: the handsome hunk of a lead singer, his addictions and drive steering the wheel at all times; the young singer, wealthy, off-the-rails, driven; the sidekick brother who never gets the girl; the disgruntled bass player; the sassy drummer; the independent, knows-what-she wants key boardist; the supportive wife; the stressed-out manager. This cast of characters is unique and utterly fascinating. One can see the train wreck coming and it just does not matter. This book is a winner:)

DNF @ 44%

I wanted to love this one. The format takes some getting used to. It's told as if they pieced together everyone's interviews for this tell all about the band The Six. There was no dialogue between characters and it felt choppy at times. It didn't pull me in and I had to force myself to get as far as I did. The cover, though, is gorgeous.

Very unusual format in that it was only interviews! I figured out the slight “twist” pretty early on and honestly I don’t think was needed. It was a great look into being in a band, being a family and the ‘70s and ‘80s music scene. Highly recommend.

After reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo I was ecstatic to read Daisy Jones & The Six. It spoke to my rock-and-roll loving heart and made me feel like I was on the road with one of the top 70’s rock bands. The interview style dialogue was fun and playful, it reminded me of watching a VH1 behind the music special. The characters were so well established, I felt very invested in them and their outcomes. There was a fun Easter egg from The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo that any TJR fan will appreciate.

The one area of the book I found disappointing was the ending. I felt like it happened so fast and left me with so many questions. The rest of the story had such in-depth timelines and complexity, the ending was less than I expected for this beautiful depiction of 70s rock. There was however a clever twist that added a fun and unexpected dynamic to the story recovering a bit of redemption.

A big shout out to @booksparks and @randomhouse for the free advanced digital copy of DAISY JONES & THE SIX. This book drops March 5th!

Friends, I told you that I didn’t think that I was cool enough to LOVE this book but I’ve been proven wrong (shocking I know wink wink). Don’t get me wrong I adore music, listen to it every day, but I’m that person that NEVER remembers the name of an artist or the name of a song. All I know is that I liked it and how it made me feel when I listened to it. “It is what I have always loved about music. Not the sounds or the crowds or the good times as much as the words—the emotions, and the stories, the truth—that you can let flow right out of your mouth.”

TJR transports us to a world of sex, drugs and rock and roll in the 70’s and you become so emerged in it all that everything else disappears. The interview format was quite unique and very easy to follow along. It provides an intimacy to the story and is done quite seamlessly. Just like Evelyn, the author blurs the line between what is real life and what is fictional. You better believe I was googling Daisy Jones and the band after I finished. I sat scratching my head, wondering why I couldn’t find out anything about them other than the book details. What?!! These people aren’t real? I’ve been duped!! Lol.

The characters are complex and I couldn’t help but love them all. My favorite was definitely Camila. I just adored her. If a person like this exists, I must know her and become immediate BFF’s. She had so much faith in Billy and I really grew to admire her strength and faith. “I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it’s not faith, right?”

Even as I write this review a week later, I’m in awe of TJR’s ability to craft a story. I adored The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and One True Loves, but this book knocked my socks off!! I hope I’ve convinced you to pick this one up, whether you’re a music fan or not. This book is entertaining, intimate and pretty darn ROCK N’ ROLL.
5 brilliant stars!

Daisy Jones and The Six is amazing!! I wasn't sure how the story would unfold told in interview style but the story flowed magically. I am a child of the 70's and loved all the rock icons. I felt as if I was being granted access to the intimate parts of the band's lives. I fell in love with all the characters especially Daisy, who in my head is a cross between Stevie Nicks and Janis Joplin. I have been listening to the Daisy Jones Spotify playlist while reading and wish I could hear the songs from the book!

First off, I want to say that I desperately need Aurora produced into a real album. Reese Witherspoon, if you’re reading this – seriously – for the show that you are producing, you have to do this. Oh wait, hold on. Upon pulling up some articles to check out for reference as I write this, I see you are indeed doing this. I would like you to know I fully support this decision. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Ok, on to my review. I adored this book. Adored it. I loved the characters and all of their very many faults. I loved the format. I loved the ending.

I honestly don’t know what else to say. The book kept my attention from the very first lines of the first chapter. That attention never wavered. There is a reason this was picked up for a series so quickly. The writing is phenomenal. You can see, truly see, this story playing out in your mind. These characters were so very real to me and even with their questionable morals and life decisions, you cared about them. Daisy Jones and the Six could’ve been the story for many a band back then. Reid brought these characters to life.

I received this book in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are mine.

Taylor Jenkins Reid has chosen an interesting way to tell a story. But does it work?

Daisy Jones is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties. By the time she’s twenty, her voice and beauty are getting noticed. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by Billy Dunne. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity.

The format of this book takes some getting used to and is one of the reasons I’ve given it a 3.5-star rating instead of a 4-star. But once I got used to the rhythm, (Ha! I made a music joke in the review of a musical book) I thought the formatting worked really well. The band and other cast of characters felt real. So much so, that I Googled the band to make they weren’t real! 

Another reason for the 3.5-star rating was the ending. This is all on me, but I wanted more. While I feel the author closed all the story doors, she left a pretty big door open too, in my opinion. I would like to see how that door would have closed. Or if it would have been opened at all?! Other readers will be perfectly happy with the ending and that’s fine, but I’ve always been the reader who wanted it all spelled out for me.

There was a bit of surprise when I realized who the author of the book within this book was. It brought a little smile to my face. I won’t say more because that would be spoiling it for you!

If sex, drugs and rock and roll are not your thing, then this book isn’t for you. But if music and bands are your thing, give this book a try. I dare you not to Google the band!

Taylor Jenkins Reid's newest novel follows the rise to fame and subsequent demise of a rock band in the 70's. It kind of feels like Almost Famous in a documentary format - and I loved it. If you're a format person, this is a little different than the tranditional format. It's narrated in interviews from all the band members. I thought it was very well done and loved each member's POV and thought it added to the overall feel of the book. One of my favorites by TJR yet.

Reid’s previous novel, “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo,” belied its fluffy title with an emotional wallop of a story, with a twist towards the end that was genuinely surprising and powerful. And though I think Reid was going for something similar with Daisy Jones, it just didn’t come together for me.

The novel centers around Daisy Jones, a wealthy white Angeleno and aspiring songwriter, and The Six, a rock band, as they converge, make pop history, and fall apart again. It’s a fairly standard 70s-music tale — the band battles commercialization, drug addiction, family obligations, and more than anything, each other as they grapple with fame, money, and responsibility.

What most differentiates this book from others on the same topic is its oral history-format. Band members, girlfriends, managers, journalists, and friends share the story-telling duties, and it’s interesting — if occasionally overly pointed — when one character’s version of an event contradicts another’s.
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Most of each quote are only a paragraph or so long, which keeps the novel moving at a breakneck pace. But it also undercuts the emotional resonance that I think Reid is probably attempting, because you never really spend enough time with each character to really develop an attachment.

I also have an issue with the book’s depiction of drug addiction. Two of the characters here are drug addicts, and both of them quickly, and for the most part successfully, decide one day they no longer want to be addicts. But drug addiction doesn’t work that way—I know from personal experience that drug addicts often struggle their entire lives, occasionally plagued by relapses of varying degrees. It’s not an on/off switch for most people.

So, this book is fun, it’s music-industry fantasy, and I think it’ll make a great TV show. But it’s not a perfect book. 3/ 5 stars.

Have you ever read a book that left you wrecked, gut-punched....a weepy mess? that’s how I feel right now, I have so many thoughts swirling in my head that I can’t figure out if I’m sad or happy. Last year when I read The Seven Wives of Evelyn Hugo, I was so deeply moved by the book, and going into this book I didn’t know if it would have the same effect on me...I think this book even surpassed that. The book is so raw and honest and gritty. There are no easy parts to this book, no peace amid the turmoil, as I was on edge the whole time. This book has such an interesting format, written as if it were an interview, a piece being written about the history of a rock band in the 70’s, which i think added an edge to the story, coming straight from the members of the band.

DNF @ 30%

As much as I love Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones and the Six simply did not work for me. The pacing felt off-- we had barely met Daisy, the title character, by the time I decided to abandon ship. The interview format felt a bit dry, and the distance between the characters and the reader also made me struggle to continue. I think the concept was fascinating, but the execution just did not deliver.

Right from the beginning Taylor Jenkins Reid draws you into the story about a fictional rock band from the 70s. If I didn't know better I would have told you Daisy Jones and The Six were a real band. You feel the tension and wanting throughout the whole book. Taylor distributes bits and pieces to the reader slowly to draw you in and have you savoring each interview.

Taylor's characterization is so good that she will have you believing the band is real. If you are anything like me you will try to pull up stories about the band on the internet. I loved how she makes Daisy a mix of sweet, worldly, flawed, confident, and slightly broken. You forget that Daisy is so young because she seems to have been there and done that.

Not only does Taylor draw you into Daisy's story but she also draws you into the band dynamic. You are given insights into each of the band's brains. She paints a very vivid picture of the ticking time bomb that is The Six.

I love that this story was told through a series of interviews. The style just seemed to work for this book and it made for a very fast read.

I think Daisy Jones and The Six will be hard to knock out of my top spot for 2019. I couldn't put this book down!

Thank you Taylor Jenkins Reid and Ballentine Books for my copy of Daisy Jones and The Six in exchange for an honest review.

In all honesty this one was a little slow in the start, but stick with it and you won't regret it. It's everything you would expect it to be in the sixties. Sex, drugs, rock and roll and aspiration to become the next big star. Daisy is set on becoming the next big thing when she meets Billy and it becomes apparent that they can do so much together. The development of relationships, love and the fame.

Such a great story from one of my favorite authors! I really loved this book and the story of Daisy! Could not put it down. You dont want to miss this!

This story was really fun to read. It follows a group of musicians through the rise of their band and adding an additional member Daisy Jones to the band.
The story has love, romance, chemistry, jealousy, and is heartwarming if not also heartbreaking.
I had a good time with this story and will definitely read more from Taylor Jenkins Reid. Also thank you to Netgalley for this arc and to the publisher and author as well.

Wow!! It feels like I have known this band my entire life! Never I have wanted a soundtrack to go along with a book ..... But with Daisy Jones and The Six , I feel like I know every song by heart already and just want to listen to their music over and over! If I didn't know it was a work of fiction I would swear I know them!!!

So good as a book ....I can't wait to try it as an audio too! Best book of the year so far!