** spoiler alert ** WOW!!!

I became a fan of Ms. Reid after reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and couldn't get enough of her work. I was super excited to receive an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Well Christmas came early. The book is structured like a documentary where the interviews provide multiple points of view and layers of context through the rise of the famous rock band, Daisy Jones and the Six.

The Six was formed by two brothers, Billy and Graham. Billy is the older brother, who has the talent to get them noticed. Graham is the faithful younger brother, who will stand by Billy. They recruit four more friends and call themselves The Six. Their band gets noticed which takes them to Los Angeles to record an album.

Daisy grew up in Los Angeles, privileged and unloved. She marches to the beat of her own drum and does not apologize for it. She too, has a gift, for songwriting and tries to get noticed.

The two work for the same record label and a decision is made to do a duet together, which ends up being a big hit. Their producers believe there is more magic with their pairing and convinces them to team up and create a new album. The process of creating what will be a timeless record will add a level fame that only a few can ever have. But fame comes at a cost, and the narration of the story told by many points of view details the challenges, battles, resentment and a whole lot of other emotions that you begin to see the fissures early on and you know something big is coming.

I don't want to give any more away. I loved how this author was able to make you feel for these characters, how Billy made a mistake and is so determined to correct that, or Daisy's need to feel love and acceptance but manages to get in her own way. I felt transported to the timeline of this book with the details. This story has the intensity of Evelyn Hugo, where you are wrung out with emotion by the end.

Another amazing book from Taylor Jenkins Reid! So worth the read. Daisy Jones is engaging to the point where you can’t put it down. At first I wasn’t sure how engaged I would be given the format but the story pulled me in and I couldn’t stop reading. Well worth it.

In Daisy Jones & the Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid uses an interview format to tell the story of a fictional rock band in the ‘70s. The Six is a band already on the rise when a well-received collaboration with young singer Daisy Jones makes it clear that greater fame and success await if she joins the band.

It’s a testament to Reid’s storytelling abilities that she can make you wonder if Daisy Jones & the Six were a real band. Each character has a distinct voice as they they look back on the past and help tell the band’s story. There’s a feeling of dreamy nostalgia sprinkled with the clarity of hindsight.

The strongest part of Daisy Jones & the Six are the women - Simone, Camila, Karen. Their personalities shine so brightly in the story as they seek to live their lives on their own terms. However, we only get a glimpse of their stories, as the book focuses on Daisy’s plummet into addiction and her complicated relationship with Billy. Their unsolvable relationship is interesting enough to keep the story moving, but ultimately I just didn’t find it compelling enough. Throughout the book, it felt like Daisy never breaks free of being an enigma. Overall, I enjoyed this novel but The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo remains my favorite novel by Reid.

This is a wonderful book. The sights and sounds of the music scene of the 1960's and 1970's California comes to life. I couldn't put the book down. Highly recommended. A new favorite. The book will be added to our staff favorite wall when released in March!!

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid is an upcoming novel told in interview format about the rise and fall of the fictional popular 1970's band Daisy Jones & The Six. I was lucky to score an advance copy through NetGalley thanks to BookSparks and Ballantine Books.

Daisy and all of the band members are introduced in interview tidbits and the story starts at the beginning of the formation of the band The Six. The Six was initially formed with lead Billy Dunne and was experiencing moderate success. They had started to develop a following and the drugs and girls were plentiful. Billy soon finds himself unable to handle all the temptations, constantly high, drunk and cheating on his wife. Daisy is coming of age in L.A., having grown up sleeping with rockstars and doing drugs on the Sunset Strip. She wants to be a song-writer but no one is interested in her original songs. She signs a record deal singing songs the label wants but finds herself increasingly high and bored. But there is something special about her...

In an attempt to launch both of them further, the label pairs Daisy with The Six for a duet. Billy and Daisy initially clash but then eventually produce a smash single experiencing even higher success. The interview continues to follow the bands progress further into the spotlight as one of the top rock n roll bands of the 1970s. The party keeps rolling, the drugs keep flowing and the band keeps exploding, but after the concert of their lives, the band dissolves.

I absolutely loved this book. The book details the inner workings and behind the scenes details of what really happened during the rise and fall of the band. Though the band is fictional, I felt like I had enough real life influences who could have been these characters. I fell in love with Daisy, Billy and the whole band. You could understand how their addictions came to fruition and who they were as artists. I loved getting insight into every member of the band and seeing the same event from seven different perspectives. Because the book is told as an interview you get to see how each member perceived certain events and how those different viewpoints possibly led to the complete collapse of the band in it's prime. If you love 1970's rock or Hollywood stories a la Stevie Nicks and Janis Joplin, you have to read this book when it hits shelves March 5, 2019.

As someone who loves a rockumentary, I can attest Reid nails the tone and format of this book. So unique, and so great!

I CANNOT wait for this book to come out, because I am going to buy a bunch of copies and give them to everyone I know. I have not been this obsessed with a book for a long time.

This book is set up as an interview with a the ultra famous members of the 60s/70s band Daisy Jones & the Six. It follows their rise, collaboration, and mysterious breakup. It felt so real, I wanted to find their album and listen to it! I felt like I could hear the music in my head and could see so clearly the energy between Daisy Jones and front man Billy Dunne.

Am I in love with every person in this fake band? I think it is quite possible.

I cannot wait for everyone to read this, I love it so much.

"Hello, Hollywood...I'd like to play Daisy Jones."

"No, I don't have any acting experience, but since I was named after one of the biggest hit singles from one of the highest-selling rock bands of all time I think I'm totally qualified."

"Hello...?"


I was OBSESSED with Taylor Jenkins Reid's "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo" last year and was anxiously awaiting her new release, Daisy Jones & the Six (releasing March 5, 2019 / Ballantine #partner) When I read the summary I was even more head over heels. A legendary rock band splits at the height of their popularity and no one knew why...until now. The book is styled as a series of interviews and the pacing is absolute perfection (longer sections of dialogue and descriptions from the main band members mixed with quick snippets from friends and acquaintances in the band's outer circle). I loved every page and knew this would be another book by Reid that I would be telling everyone about but I had no idea that I was going to get an ending like that--I've never had chills upon chills upon chills like I did reading the final pages of Daisy Jones & the Six.

Taylor Jenkins Reid’s eagerly anticipated novel, Daisy Jones & The Six is getting rave reviews from book bloggers and I KNOW you will love it too. The cover is absolute perfection. I know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but…this one is fabulous.

The story centers around a band in the 1970s, a great era for music. Though the band is not real, it sure feels like it is, reminding me a little of Fleetwood Mac. The author does a wonderful job of telling the story through a series of interviews.

Here’s the synopsis:

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.



I recently learned that this book is set to become a thirteen-part series from Reese Witherspoon’s production company. Read the book first!

Daisy Jones & The Six is due out on March 5, 2019.

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.

AAR staffers Shannon Dyer and Lisa Fernandes read Daisy Jones and the Six, and are here to share their thoughts on the novel.

Shannon: In the summer of 2017, I fell hopelessly in love with Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and I've been a devoted fan of this author's work ever since, so, of course, when I saw she was releasing something new, I knew I had to read it. What drew you to this novel? Had you read any of Ms. Reid's previous works?

Lisa: I’m completely unfamiliar with the author outside of this book!  I ended up picking it for a couple of reasons; I love rock music and the rock and roll scene, and I love messy stories such as this one.  And the oral tradition/interview style storytelling really grabbed my attention.

Shannon: I'm not always a fan of stories told in letters or interview snippets. Some authors can make this particular narrative style work well, but it often falls flat for me. Fortunately, Ms. Jenkins Reid drew me into the story from the very beginning, and I ended up really enjoying the way the novel was structured.

Lisa: I LOVED the way this story was told.  I’m familiar with the style (Live from New York, Slimed!, Please Kill Me and a lot of oral tradition-style nonfiction has been written that way recently) so it was fun to see it applied to a fictional novel.  Jenkins Reid is masterful in balancing every single point of view and giving them time to grow.

Shannon: Since we see events from various perspectives, it's not always easy to know what really happened and what can be chalked up to failing memories or different interpretations of the same situation. Did that make it difficult for you to piece events together in your mind, or did you find things to be pretty clear-cut?

Lisa: In a story like this – set in the twisty, topsy-turvy wonderland of life in the late 60s/70s rock scene in LA, when everyone is fueled by drugs, alcohol, ego, sex or all four, - I expected conflicting stories and differing opinions and memories to be put forth.  That’s part of what makes this story so good!

Shannon: I wholeheartedly agree! The story would not have been nearly as compelling if everyone's perceptions matched up perfectly.

Both Daisy and Billy have strong personalities. Did you find either or both of them to be sympathetic, or did they frustrate you?

Lisa: Daisy was a bit of a conundrum. There was a lot of ‘Daisy is a genius!  Daisy is an icon!’ going on in this novel – yeah, and Daisy is also a drug addict and a pretty big narcissist, very self-involved and reckless.  I feel like a lot of people made excuses for her genius, which is frankly hard to ascertain when you’re reading a fictional novel about a musician whose music you can’t hear (And the lyrics I read at the back of the book frankly don’t scream genius rock star to me).  But on the other hand I found her sympathetic, quirky and vulnerable in places – hungry for love that refuses to come to her.

Billy’s biggest problems were rage and ego.  Rage that his father refused to acknowledge him, rage over his battle with Eddie over control of the band.  And he was very, very easily led astray.  But again – he cared about Camila, cared about his daughter, cared about his family and his brother.

Shannon: First off, I really wish we could hear their music. As you said, we're constantly told how brilliant these people are, but we have no way to verify that. It's obvious that both Daisy and Billy are extremely troubled, though the demons that plague each of them are different. I found them both to be compelling, mostly because of their various flaws.

Shannon: Daisy and Billy obviously have an extremely complex relationship. How do you think it compares to the one Billy has with Camila?

Lisa: It’s a very classic battle of lust versus love with the three of them.  Camila refuses to be used or to let Billy put music before her (spoiler: he does it anyway) and their daughters but she wants to share in and appreciates his talent. She loved him, and he was nearly overcome with romantic love for her at times.  He worshipped Camila to a degree and yet he’d get drunk and then cheat early in the relationship, when he was high.  And then enter Daisy.  With Daisy, on the other hand, who was the off the wall wild child with no self-control and sometimes no sense of self-preservation; she wants Billy because she lusts after him, because he pushes back, and unlike the rest of the world he’s the one man she can’t have.  With Billy and her it was a classic love-hate-push-pull-Stevie-versus-Lindsay situation – they were equals with equable talent who make musical magic together, trying to claim a band that was careening out of their control.  Naturally, when you have a musical soulmate like that, passion is going to ensue.  I felt Billy and Daisy’s conflict, and I understood it, and Camila’s strength was a perfect response to the whole situation.

Shannon: I felt really badly for Camila throughout the story. Her deep and abiding love for Billy was almost palpable, and, despite Billy's sometimes sappy declarations of love for her, he often put his career ahead of her and their children. When Daisy entered the picture, Billy's selfishness was magnified to epic proportions. The tension between these three is at the forefront of the entire novel, and I found myself loving and hating all of them at different times.

Shannon: I wasn't born until 1980, so I have no personal experience with the time period in which the story is set. Having said that though, I found the author's depiction of the 1970s to be quite evocative. Certain passages made me feel like I'd traveled back in time and was experiencing things right along with the characters.

Lisa: I was born the same year and entirely missed out on the 1970s myself, but I’m familiar with supergroup explosions like this one (again: I love Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles) and with the Sunset Strip culture of the time (Thank you, Pamela des Barres).  The author does a great job of capturing the cocaine soaked, hedonistic time, and also the general spirit of a struggling rock band making it huge.

Lisa: Who else among the band intrigued you?  Did you enjoy any of their stories?  I was pretty partial to sardonic and turtleneck-wearing Karen Karen and her difficult relationship with Graham.

Shannon: Karen Karen was fantastic. She added so much to the story without managing to eclipse the leads, and I'm guessing that's exactly the role she played in the band as well. She's talented in her own right, but in a much quieter, more laid-back way from those who are always in the spotlight.

Lisa: What about the other interview subjects?  I really liked Simone.

Shannon: I wish we could have known Simone better. I loved her loyalty to Daisy as well as her unflinching honesty. She tells it like it is, even if those aren't the things people want to hear, and I admired her for that.

Shannon: What’s your final grade? I'm going with an A-. This is a solidly original story with a surprising amount of depth of both plot and character. It's the kind of thing I want everyone to read and embrace.

Lisa: It’s a solid A- from me too; a great novel, absorbing,with interesting, flawed and complicated characters.  The only thing that keeps me from giving it an A is the fact that Daisy and Billy are going to be a lot to take for some readers.  And, to be honest, the author’s choice concerning the book’s ending was disappointing and narratively convenient.  But I will recommend it in spite of my extremely mild misgivings, because the book is excellent.

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Am I the only one hoping that there's a Spotify playlist of these songs available when this book is published? Taylor Jenkins Reid really brought this band to life & I was super invested in their failures & successes, both on & off the stage. Even though this is a fictional band, you can imagine some of your favorite artists facing many of these demons. Can't wait for the movie!

Reading this was like watching the best episode ever of “Behind the Music.” Could not put it down!

The disclaimer says Daisy Jones & The Six is a work of fiction. Even so, it FELT real. At one point I actually did a Youtube search to see if I could find any of their songs. There are a lot of Daisy Jones online but none were what I was looking for. Google search came up empty as well. I was disappointed, even though I know its just a novel. If this book has me so invested, there has to be some kind of fan made stuff, right? Oh, yeah, I read an ARC and no one else is as hyped over these fictional characters as me.

The book is told in sections chronologically telling the story of a famous 1970s rock band's rise to fame and abrupt split. Author's note mentions interviewing members of the band and their friends and family over the course of 8 years and the story is recorded as an interview making believe it feel real, like a memoir, right from the start. Have you seen American Horror Story, Roanoke? It kind of feels like that.

The Groupie Daisy Jones 1965-1972 Los Angeles, CA. Giving a little background information on who Daisy is, where she came from, and her motivations hooking her into the rock scene at a very young age. Daisy came alive on the pages.

The rise of The Six 1966-72 started as Dunne Brothers in Pittsburgh, PA. Two brothers wanting to make music together, getting others to join the fun and getting signed to a record contract. Everyone had distinct personalities remembering what happened 40+ years ago.

The 1970s for the band was all sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll. Even though I was born after that period I can fully imagine the scenes. They didn't shy away from admitting the consequences of certain choices.

To sum up my feelings- I loved it. I'd watch this movie or better yet, I can picture it as a mini series. I'd listen to these songs on Youtube. Definitelty a must read.

Set in the 1970's, Daisy Jones & The Six follows a successful rock band and their highs and lows. The story has a little of everything - friendships, a love story, turmoil, power struggles, and of course sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Told in an documentary style, the story follows the band when it's just starting out to the heights of their popularity and answers why they split up.

I really like Taylor Jenkins Reid's books and this one is no different. I was immediately drawn in by the characters and the Behind the Music feel of the story. This is a fictional band but it really seemed real as I was reading it. Since it is told in an interview style it took awhile to get used to the format, but then I could not put it down. Such a fun read. I thought The Seven Husband of Evelyn Hugo could not be topped but this one is so close, I don't think I can choose which I liked more. Highly recommend this book which comes out March 5, 2019.

Thank you to Netgalley and Ballantine Books for the advanced reader's copy in exchange for my honest review.

The blurb promised this to be "A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup." It was not. Once again we see 'beauty' rear its ugly head in a novel about a woman, like beauty is all a woman has to offer. It's not.

I know we live in a shallow and very visual world, but beauty shouldn't even be on the table when you're considering someone's qualities, not even in a novel unless the novel is specifically about someone's looks. I don't care if a character calls someone 'beautiful' or focuses shallowly on looks because there are people like that in real life, but in the book blurb? It's not helping things in a #MeToo era - and from a female author too.

I know you can't hold an author responsible for the book blurb unless they self-publish, but seriously? The main character here was supposed to be a sensational star, but the word 'talented' failed to trump 'beauty'? 'Charismatic' never made it? Enigmatic? Anyone? Bueller?

I decided to overlook that because it was only the blurb and I'm intrigued by this subject, but inside the book was just as bad as the outside if for different reasons, and it was far from being gripping and well into boring territory. Neither of the two main characters, Daisy Jones or Billy Dunne, were remotely interesting to me.

The first problem as that all attempt at writing an actual novel was abandoned, thereby giving the lie to the qualifier 'A novel' on the cover. There was no descriptive prose here setting location or atmosphere, or anything for that matter. It's not even a script.

There were only character names and their spoken words, like we were getting one side of a very sparse interview, which made it more unrealistic. If those words had been compelling and entertaining, or had offered something revealing, or even new and original, that might have been something, but there was nothing here that hasn't been done before.

That she "... devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it..." might speak volumes about Reese Witherspoon, but it leaves me completely unmoved. This is the actor who April 2013, was arrested for disorderly conduct in Atlanta after her husband, was pulled over and arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence.

Witherspoon played the crass "Do you know who I am?" card, and was obnoxious to a police officer who was admirably and patiently doing his job in keeping the streets safe. I haven't liked her since. No recommendation from someone who has behaved so inexcusably badly under the influence is going to influence me. I think it was a poor and frankly a rather desperate choice to use a quote from her in a book blurb.

Anyway, what all this (in the novel) meant was that we knew nothing about these fictional characters at all, and what that meant for me was that I did not care about them or why they broke up, or what happened to them subsequently. Consequently I stopped reading this about a third of the way through and I did not miss it at all when I put it down. On the contrary, I felt relief that I didn't have to read any more and could move on to the next title which inevitably had to be better. Based on what I read and the overall style and format of this novel, I cannot commend it as a worthy read nor am I interested in reading anything else by this author when there are so many others out there worthy of reading.

WOW!!! All the stars!

Reading Daisy Jones & The Six was like watching an episode of VH1 Storytellers. I kept picturing Fleetwood Mac (I couldn't help myself!)

Written as the transcription of an interview, it goes back and forth between band members (and those close to the band) and walks us through the making of the band and its ultimate demise. In the same fashion as author Taylor Jenkins Reid's The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, there is a nice twist at the end.

I read this book mostly in one sitting. You can whip through it quickly and it will make you want to listen to old school rock-n-roll when you are done, that is for sure!

Thank you Ballantine Books for approving my NetGalley arc request: getting the approval email was like waking up as a kid on Christmas morning! I can't wait for its release in March 2019.

Daisy Jones & the Six is like reading a VH1 docu-series in the absolute best way. The entire book is written interview style, which I was skeptical of at first. It completely worked though and added so much to the book.

The emotions and conflict of the characters come through perfectly when each is recounting their story as they remember it, and you really feel like you are watching this interview play out of a famous rock band, waiting to see what led to their demise. Despite the band being fictional, I was so invested in the characters and their stories. A few twists and turns come at the end that I was not expecting, and that just added to the wonder of this novel.

🍺🚬🎵BOOK REVIEW!!!🎵🚬🍺
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

🍺 I’m a daughter of hippies. Literally. I was raised knowing to never touch The White Album (a Beatles reference for you youngins) from my dad’s precious record collection. I lived in a house with a framed original Woodstock poster that my dad brought home after he ran away to see the show at age 16. I’m sure you can imagine how much music was and is a major part of my life. So please understand my elation when a book not only brought me back to my childhood, but allowed me to also live my parent’s childhood. This was nostalgia at its best. Ladies and gentleman...Daisy Jones and the Six..

🚬 Billy Dunne and brother Graham have been playing in a band since the moment it was possible. Together with their band-mates, they created the band The Six. Heading toward semi-stardom, the band takes off to LA in hopes to become something big.

Daisy Jones, daughter of affluent, self-absorbed parents spent her life struggling to find her identity. With some luck, a backbone made of steel and a voice of the Gods, Daisy Jones manages to barrel down those impossibly hard to open music industry doors.

Through sheer genius, The Six and Daisy Jones come together in a swarm of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. Their hopes...to create an album that will forever leave a mark on the music industry.

🎵 I remember the days when VH1 and MTV actually played music. I’d record videos and “Behind the Music” on my sweet VHS tapes. The best part of my day was popping in a tape and watching the Pearl Jam “Jeremy” video and Tori Amos’ live shows over and over again. Daisy Jones & the Six was like popping in an old VHS tape, just sitting back and absorbing the music and all it encumbered. Pure heaven.

Let's just say that when this book comes out, I will be running to the store to buy it even though I now have a Kindle version. It's that good. This novel follows the journey of Daisy Jones & The Six and reveals their rise and their fall. Daisy is such a lovable character even though you want to grab her by the shoulders and shake her sometimes whereas Billy, the lead of The Six, was extremely unlikable to me. But somehow their characters clicked, as did the others in the story like Graham (Billy's brother and bandmate), Karen Karen (keyboardist), Eddie (rhythm guitar), Warren (drummer), and even Camila (Billy's wife). Everything in this book just made sense.

What I loved most about this book was the focus on the music. You can feel the passion of the art of sound emanating off the page. But even when the focus is music, the music is focused on emotions like love, anger, spite, regret, loss, and joy.

This book is so beautifully written and maintains your interest with the roller coaster of life as a rock band in the 1970's including drugs, pregnancy, philandering, rehab, sobriety, falling off the wagon, and far out stories of the times.

This book was given to me on Net Galley by Random House Publishing Group- Ballantine Books in exchange for an honest review.

I was thrilled to death for the opportunity to read an ARC of his new book. I was drawn in from the first chapter and could hardly put it down!