Book Review - Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Title: Daisy Jones & the Six
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Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
 
Description: 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 Whiskey a Go GO. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ‘n roll she loves the most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting notices, 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 realized that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next is the stuff of legend.
 
Review: Late 1960s. Los Angeles. Daisy Jones, a gorgeous woman, dreams of becoming a famous singer. She meets Billy Dunne, the front man of the up-and-coming rock band The Six. Sparks fly and their first song together becomes a big hit. In “Daisy Jones & the Six”, Taylor Jenkins Reid provides a behind-the-scenes look at the rise and fall of a band. Not only drugs, alcohol and rock ‘n roll play an important role in this story. “Daisy Jones & the Six” is all the more about heroic women in the music industry, holding their own in a man’s world.
 
“Daisy Jones & the Six” features three strong female characters: Daisy, Karen and Camila. How do they hold their own in the music industry, a real man’s world? All three of them were great characters. Camila loves Billy wholeheartedly and is willing to forgive him his imperfections and his mistakes. Karen, on the other hand, chooses herself. Playing the keyboard in the band is her joy and her life. And finally, of course, Daisy. She apologizes for nothing or no one. No man is her boss. She is no one’s muse, but her own person.
 
Daisy and Billy are the main characters and they steal the show. But for me Karen and Graham were the ones that stole my heart. Daisy was sometimes insufferable, but she and Billy are both very interesting and complex characters. Great characters to read about.
 
Taylor Jenkins Reid chose to write the book in the form of an interview. All the band members (and other people involved with them) give their side of the story. I constantly felt like I was reading a biography of a band. This particular method of narration gives the book a completely unique atmosphere. More than once it felt like the band had really existed.
 
I loved the theme of the book, it’s incredibly interesting. An inside look in the creation of a band, as well as their shows, recording an album and life in the spotlight. And eventually their downfall. But there is more. In addition to music, drugs, sex, love, cheating, addiction and death take center stage.
 
I loved “Daisy Jones & the Six” from start to finish. An interesting theme, great characters and a unique narration all turn this story into a must-read for fans of historical fiction. Cannot fault it, I found a new forever favorite.
 
Rating: 5/ 5