Daisy Jones and the Six
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Genre: Contemporary, Historical Fiction
Original description date: March 2019
Book description :
but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.
Original description date: March 2019
Book description :
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.
Thoughts:
Characters: 8.5
The people (they feel like real people) are so realistic and the fact that everyone had a little difference in their part of the story. It feels like you really are hearing adults remembering their teenager years with yearning and defending their actions all those years later.
Daisy is not your typical stuck up girl. She is confused, lonely, talented and learning. This story is about her finding her ground, making decisions, regretting some, proud of them.
Billy, well he was far from perfect yet he seemed likable from far but in he had issues to play as a team, he was very selfish and yet he gave it his all to love. Yet he made bad choices and had huge luck... He found the best possible girl to fall in love with and to be loved back.
The rest of the band is also charming in their own way. The ironic detail is that they felt overlooked and they are too, they do no have such big spot light but their story is woven in they were all part of the band.
Plot: 8.5
It starts off slow, you don't know the band or the people you are being introduced to. Daisy is the first one you meet and get choices leave a lot to be desired.
It doesn't have a fast pace at all, it is definitely character driven.
Logic : 8.5
The fact that some of the choices people make I would categorize as bad, or mistakes, lapses of judgement they do make sense. The band and Daisy are young and dazzled easily, it feels like watching a movie about the sixties.
Writing style: 10.0
Love it, the fact that is written in an interview format and it even has inserts from the interviewer as well makes it feel so real.
Intrigue: 6.5
It is not the intent of the book but you do have that nagging notion at the back of your mind, what happens? Why do they split apart so suddenly?
Enjoyment: 10.0
Intention: 8.0
It gives a good view of life of artists, game and fortune are not all that grand all the time, it takes effort and not always ends up being what they expect or desired.
The people (they feel like real people) are so realistic and the fact that everyone had a little difference in their part of the story. It feels like you really are hearing adults remembering their teenager years with yearning and defending their actions all those years later.
Daisy is not your typical stuck up girl. She is confused, lonely, talented and learning. This story is about her finding her ground, making decisions, regretting some, proud of them.
Billy, well he was far from perfect yet he seemed likable from far but in he had issues to play as a team, he was very selfish and yet he gave it his all to love. Yet he made bad choices and had huge luck... He found the best possible girl to fall in love with and to be loved back.
The rest of the band is also charming in their own way. The ironic detail is that they felt overlooked and they are too, they do no have such big spot light but their story is woven in they were all part of the band.
Plot: 8.5
It starts off slow, you don't know the band or the people you are being introduced to. Daisy is the first one you meet and get choices leave a lot to be desired.
It doesn't have a fast pace at all, it is definitely character driven.
Logic : 8.5
The fact that some of the choices people make I would categorize as bad, or mistakes, lapses of judgement they do make sense. The band and Daisy are young and dazzled easily, it feels like watching a movie about the sixties.
Writing style: 10.0
Love it, the fact that is written in an interview format and it even has inserts from the interviewer as well makes it feel so real.
Intrigue: 6.5
It is not the intent of the book but you do have that nagging notion at the back of your mind, what happens? Why do they split apart so suddenly?
Enjoyment: 10.0
Intention: 8.0
It gives a good view of life of artists, game and fortune are not all that grand all the time, it takes effort and not always ends up being what they expect or desired.
Total score: 60.0
Average: 8.5
Star rating: 4.0
Average: 8.5
Star rating: 4.0
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