Taylor Jenkins Reid does it again. There is just something about her writing that catches you from the first line and keeps you hooked till the last. You feel for both Daisy and Billy and every character in this book. The story truly unfolds as the book goes on. I hated when it ended. I can not wait to see what she comes out with next.

I don't know how I feel about this. I wouldn't say I liked it as much as The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo which probably has to do with that 1. it's less gay, and 2. I'm not as interested in musician stuff as I am in old Hollywood and acting. That said, the ending really hit me hard. I don't know though if that's the book or more that it made me think of stuff in my life that I try not to think about because it scares me and is painful. I'm excited for the limited series and to hear the songs.

Amazing Beyond Amazing. I can not wait to see how Reese Witherspoon but this book into a series. I enjoyed this book so much.

Oh my word I fell into this novel about a fictional band from the 70s - Daisy Jones & the Six. The format is not your usual novel format and, as with anything that's a little different, I'd suggest you start this when you have time to really get a good chunk read and when you know you'll be able to finish it quickly. It would NOT be a good 'pick-up-put-down' sort of a read. Here's why. Daisy Jones and the Six is written as if it's the transcription of a documentary about your favorite (nonexistent) old school hard rock band. Many people are comparing this band to Fleetwood Mac (which worked for me). There is a HUGE cast of characters and they would be easy to confuse if you stretched the reading of this out over any great length of time. But if you can give yourself time to jump in, oh it's so good! I definitely loved Daisy and also most of the other band members. I was very into figuring out what happened and where the twists would be and also sort of devastated that I couldn't actually LISTEN to the band's music. There is a playlist you can find, curated by the author and publisher, so that was fun. This is definitely (I think, as of now) on my list for a best Litpick of 2019. Hits shelves in March. 5 stars.

DAISY JONES AND THE SIX is the first book I had the immense pleasure of reading by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Halfway through I purchased THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO knowing I had to read more by this author.

DAISY JONES AND THE SIX is the best book I have read in a long time; perhaps growing up in the 70s made this book truly resonate with me but I believe anyone of any age would find something to love about this book and it's amazing cast of characters. This novel gave me a book hangover, the book, the characters and the story have remained with me long after turning the last page.

DAISY JONES AND THE SIX are a fictional rock band of the 70’s; the book follows their rise to becoming one of the most legendary bands in the world, their world of sex, drugs and rock and roll.

When I first opened the book and saw the format I was apprehensive, the book is written as if the characters are being interviewed with short answers to questions we do not know. It worked, it truly, truly worked, I could not imagine this book written in any other format.

Camila Dunne may be one of my favorite characters ever; right up there with Scarlett O'Hara!!!! I would love to meet her, be her friend, it is not often I come away from a book feeling like this. I invested with each and every character, I related to their feelings, their losses, their love and hate. I was devastated to turn the last page.

I am holding onto THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO afraid to be disappointed but also afraid it will be so good I will forget Camila, Billy, Daisy, Karen, Graham etc., who I want to hold onto just a little bit longer.

“Everyone knows Daisy Jones and the Six” but nobody knows the real reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity...until now”

Conducted over the course of the last eight years, were interviews of current and former members of the band, family, friends and others responsible for their rise and fall- though sometimes, accounts of the same event differ. (Author’s note)

This story is told almost completely though these interviews.

Sex, drugs and rock and roll

Rehab

Rolling Stone Magazine

Temptations...

Egos which clash...

These are the common themes for ANY book or movie about a rock band in the 60’s and 70’s. No exception here.

THIS time it’s about charismatic lead singer, Billy Dunne and his muse, Camila.
The remaining members of the band called “The Six”.
And, the groupie, Daisy Jones, who eventually joins the band and is quoted as saying::

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

Reese Witherspoon will be bringing this book about the rise and fall of this fictional rock group to the small screen with a 13 episode series for Amazon, along with the original songwriting by the author herself (lyrics provided at the end of the book)

After the success of her previous novel, “The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo” and now this book, Taylor Jenkins Reid is fast becoming THE author that everyone is talking about.

For me though, these last two books, have been my least favorite of hers.

I have heard THIS story many times, though each time the “band” has been a different one.

And, I did not connect with the characters in this book or with Evelyn Hugo.

I MISS the characters of her earlier work! Women and situations I could relate to!

But, I suspect that I will be in the minority with this unpopular opinion!

This book and the music which will come from it, are sure to be a smash hits!! Available March 5, 2019!

A big Thank You to Netgalley, Random House-Ballantine Publishing and Taylor Jenkins Reid for allowing me to read an ARC in exchange for a candid review!

❝I learned about sex and love the hard way. That men will take what they want and feel no debt, that some people only want one piece of you.❞

I’ve never read a book taking the format of interviews throughout its entirety, but if anyone can pull it off it’s most definitely, Taylor Jenkins Reid.

Right off the bat, I knew Daisy Jones was going to be a new favorite character of mine. She’s just an average girl who wants to be heard (don’t we all). She’s confident and will hassle for what she wants, but deep down her heart conveys this sweet innocence. I think I connected with Daisy because of her unrefined perspective on life. She wants to think the best of people although she knows the reality is, people are cruel and only out for themselves. She’s smart, cool, determined and unpredictable.

❝It was a big lesson for me when I was young - being given things versus earning them. I was so used to being given things that I didn’t know how important is for your soul to earn them.❞

The interviews seamlessly mold together each of the characters individual voices with the seventies rock scene. I usually steer clear from “unusual” formatting within books but this was so well done.

❝I always say I don’t care if you’re a man, woman, white, black, gay, straight, or anything in between - if you play well, you play well. Music is a great equalizer in that way.❞

This book will have you feeling like you’re a reporter getting first-hand the newest and juiciest gossip. You’re immersed in the age of rock ‘n’ roll with a cast of both unlikable and lovable characters to ride-out the journey with. I felt like I was inside “That ‘70s Show,” but if it were on steroids.

❝Let me tell you the sweet spot for being in rock ‘n’ roll. People think it’s when you’re at the top but no. That’s when you’ve got the pressure and expectations. What’s good is when everybody thinks you’re headed somewhere fast, where you’re all potential.❞

I was enthralled from start to finish. My third book by, Reid I’ve read in one sitting (it’s just that good)! This book made me reminisce about my childhood cruising in the backseat of my dad’s mustang. The entire memory of the red leather seats and the Eagles soundtrack we listened to over and over again. My heart skipped so many beats I lost count. Taylor Jenkins Reid has surpassed my expectations once again. Hands down a book to be read!

Wonderful story that just consumed me. Felt like I was back in the 70's with the band. Fabulous dialogue and characters. A true page turner that I could not put down.

Very grateful to Ballentine Books and BookSparks for allowing me to read Daisy Jones and The Six for review.

You will hear a lot of praise for this book before it’s release date March 5, 2019. It’s unique and powerful. Written in documentary script style, it was very conversational so you felt a part of the band.
Daisy Jones and the Six is the story of a legendary rock band in the seventies who had one major album before they broke up. It documents how they started, how they came together and the reasons for their breakup. It’s best read while listening to the Spotify playlist for the book, to really get you in the mood.
The characters are varied, interesting and I fell in love with them all.
Reese Witherspoon already has the rights to being this fascinating story to tv and I can not wait.
Daisy Jones and the Six releases March 5, 2019 and you are not going to want to miss it!

I've long been a fan of Taylor Jenkins Reid, and in Daisy Jones & The Six, her talent is on full display as she reinvents what it means to write a novel. She gives us memorable characters teeming with an artistic passion you can feel, and a wild ride that somehow seems to combine your own musical memories with a wholly fictional world. Immersive, original, and utterly irresistible.

Thank you Netgalley for the ARC.

I love TJR. I have read most of her books and my favorite will always be The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.

Daisy Jones and The Six is a whole another level of talent. The author amazes me every time she writes a new book. It was a bit hard to get into the style of writing on this one but once I got the hang of it, it was flowing rather easily.

Well done. Another winner.

Raw, emotional, gritty. That’s rock n roll, and Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new book, Daisy Jones & The Six. Loved it!

OMG! I cannot even begin to say how much I loved this book! Everything about it! I love the "interview" format, I love the incredibly well written characters, I love the time period in which the story is set, I love rock 'n roll, I love the ending!

The story is fun to read, and brought out all my emotions - I even cried toward the end of the book. It is so realistic that I went online so see if this band actually did exist in the 70s. Being a child of the 70s, I pictured Daisy Jones as Stevie Nix, and wondered how much of Stevie's life and career in Fleetwood Mac were like Daisy's in Daisy Jones and The Six.

Only change I would have made would be to include the song lyrics within the story, rather than at the end of the book.

Highly, highly recommend!! Thank you, Taylor Jenkins Reid for this wonderful story!

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo might be my favorite book of 2018. So when I saw the Taylor Jenkins Reid had a new book coming out, I was hyped. When NetGalley approved me for an eARC I almost passed out.

Okay. This book was insane. I loved it. I did not want to put it down and I could not stop thinking about it. The characters are messy, flawed, and feel so real. I don’t know how Taylor Jenkins Reid makes her characters seems like they are real people. If you told me that Daisy Jones & the members of The Six were real I would believe you. I already want to reread this book. I want to comb through TJR’s words. I want to annotate their song lyrics and highlight all my favorite quotes. A big part of me is sad Aurora is not a real album.

Daisy Jones & The Six were an insanely famous rock band in the 70’s, but at the time of the book they are older. They all remember things differently, which I thought was so authentic and made things a little mysterious. We are not entirely sure what is the truth and what memories have been lost to the ages. We follow Daisy and the band from their beginnings, how they came together, and how they fell apart. The characters have had years to reflect on their actions and thus are not as angry as I imagine they were when the actions in the novel took place.

I did not realize going into this that it was told in a transcript form and an unnamed narrator is telling us the story. The format took a little getting used to, but I think it was the perfect way to tell this story.

WHAT I LOVED
The beginning hooks you
This is a TJR staple (at least based on the one other book I have read by her)
How they all remember things differently
There was not any unnecessary girl hate. It would have been so easy to pit all the girls against each other. They don’t all like one another, but they respect each other. We also see some great female friendships
It’s so feminist and shows women being happy in different lives. Moms, a woman who doesn’t want kids, musicians, and an IT girl.
How the bands song lyrics are included
There are so many epic quotes (most of the ones I highlighted have curse words so for the sake of keeping this review PG I won’t list those)
“Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people”
KAREN! It would have been so easy for her to hate Daisy or for her to give up on what she wanted, simply because society told her to

WHAT I DID NOT LOVE
I did not love that addiction played such a huge role in the story. I get it, but it is not my favorite thing to read about. It did play for an interesting dynamic between two of the characters which I did like
A few of the characters sort of blended in the background. It took me awhile to figure out all the bandmates and record people.
That I can’t talk about more of this book in detail because of spoilers.

I read The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo and was thoroughly impressed, so when I seen this one I knew I needed to read it ASAP!! This book was very different in the sense it was written in interview format!!. But it definitely worked. I felt this story really pulled me in,and I felt connected! I gave this book 4 stars ONLY because I sometimes felt there was a bit too much about the recording, or music aspect, which I know that is obviously what its about, but I think I wanted more of their personal life. But in the end, I LOVED IT! And the ending was perfect! Highly recommend!! Thank you to Ball an tine Books and netgalley for my e-copy!

Music lovers rejoice! This one will suck you in. It has notes of a lot of bands from the 70's era.I liked how it was written from the view points of the band members and those closest to them. Taylor has written another good one.

The format of this book took a little getting used to, but once I was into it the pages flew by! I was very invested in all of the characters and fascinated by the "documentary" feel. This book feels perfect for a screen adaptation, as Reid's writing makes you picture all of the people and the way they speak.

This story felt so real. It reads like an extended interview you might find in an old issue of Rolling Stone. I actually stopped to google the band because I wasn't sure this was fiction a few pages in. Taylor Jenkins Reid paced the story so perfectly. I couldn't put it down. She captured the spirit of this period of time so authentically that I want to know if she was actually there. Or if her parents were there. Vividly told story using a clever plot device.

Well I know I'm standing out from the 5 star crowd on this one but I'll share my thoughts on why I didn't love this book, one of my MOST anticipated books of 2019. I'll start by saying I've loved several of TJR's books I read this past year...Evelyn, One True Loves and After I Do are at the top of my list so even though I knew this was about a rock band in the 70s with a tribute to rock music in general, neither of which I enjoy, I still believed I'd enjoy this because it's TJR! That being said, if you enjoy both rock music, bands, and reading about the lifestyle from the 70s you very well may love this book.

It's structured in an interview style format (for the whole book) with many characters getting a chance to speak, including the band members and all those involved in their lives. This interview format lent itself to short snippets from the characters, repetitive behind the scenes music details, concert details, song details, lots and lots of drug use scenes, etc. I get it, drugs and alcohol, especially in rock bands, was big in the 70's and 80s but I wanted more from this story and these characters if that makes sense. For me, this structure left me feeling disconnected from the story and characters because I didn't feel immersed in the storyline. I should've connected with the main characters Daisy and Billy but I didn't. I liked Camilla but honestly couldn't understand her motivations so I'd say my favorite character in the end was Simone, Daisy's best friend. I love that TJR took a chance on a completely different format for telling this story and for a gazillion others it will work, just not for me unfortunately. I'm still a fan though and will be eagerly waiting for her next book!!

Early reviews for this book gush about it. And, of course, we all know Reese Witherspoon already purchased the rights for a limited Amazon series. All of this, coupled with the fact that Taylor is one of my favorite authors, means I was expecting to be singing this book’s praises, too. But...I simply didn’t connect with it.

I’m disappointed to write those words. I love Taylor’s books. I tell everyone I meet to read Forever, Interrupted and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Daisy Jones & The Six is a complete departure, though — from her style, from her pacing. Before I get into why I didn’t love this book, let me first say that there is zero argument that it’s impeccably written. After the first “chapter,” I googled whether or not this band is real. Because Taylor masters their individual voices. It’s unfathomable that one woman wrote 10(?) unique voices, their stories unfolding so authentically that you would think it’s a real interview and not total fiction. Taylor’s talent blows me away.

Similarly, this book is one-of-a-kind different. This isn’t something you’ve seen or read before in the fiction world. Which again speaks to Taylor’s vision — her undeniable creativity. Her style has grown measures since her debut, Forever, Interrupted. And that’s also where my disconnection with Daisy Jones & The Six begins.

I fell in love with Taylor’s writing style from her first book. The following four, I loved in almost equal measure (there is only one I felt was a miss). I was so thrown by the narrative format when I started Daisy Jones that I only continued to stumble. I had no idea the book would be written in interview style, with alternating voices always speaking to the omnipresent author and not each other, not really.

Because of this, you only ever get dialogue. There is no traditional character development through background storytelling. For me, that’s one tradition I need while reading fiction in order to truly connect with a character — to feel emotionally invested in their journey. Because of this, while I found these characters interesting, I didn’t really care what happened to them. I felt so far removed. Like I was indeed reading an article, which is emotionally a wildly different feeling than learning about a character’s internal struggles and backgrounds.

Some will argue that we got those very things in Daisy Jones. And we did, to an extent. But again, because of the format, those things are always told to us, not shown. Which for me, creates a detachment from the heart of the emotion.

Ultimately, I never looked forward to picking this book back up. I didn’t think about it all day, waiting to get home to start in again. I just knew I had to read it. I’ve racked my brain for answers as to why I didn’t like this, especially when all other early reviewers LOVE it. And I think it comes down to two things: one, the format, as described above, and two, the plot. Because as it turns out, I guess I just don’t connect all that much with the self-imposed struggles musicians go through. Unlike Taylor’s other books, where the “hero’s journey” is completely relatable, and you close the book feeling understood, Daisy Jones feels like a hyped-up Behind the Music, a bit fantastical, and so far unrelated to your everyday life as an average human.

I’m sure thousands of people will love this book. And I actually really look forward to it as a TV show (I almost think it’ll work better that way). But it’s not for me. I’m disappointed I didn’t enjoy it. I didn’t like the characters, and not in a fun way like you hate Nick and Amy in Gone, Girl. They’re just not the type of people I want to read about. They’re too selfish and narcissistic (masquerading as introspective), and I never felt stirred by their attempt to be deep and poetic in their music. I didn’t feel it. And this is why books are really so subjective. Some stories speak to people, and others don’t even whisper.

I hope others continue to love Daisy Jones, because I want all of the success for Taylor. Until then, I’m excited to give the show, and her next book, a try.