There is no doubt there are and will be many reviews about this book, so I am going to get right to the point. I absolutely loved this book., from the style of story telling, to the real struggles of the characters, to the amazing time period (70’s music scene). It all culminated in an enchanting and addictive read. It felt like I was reading a Behind The Music episode on Daisy Jones and Six. And that gave me all the feels! Well done Taylor Jenkins Reid, well done.

I received an e-arc via Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

I've read a few of Taylor jenkins Reid's books and really enjoyed them so I was really excited to receive an advanced copy of this one through Netgalley. The book is set up differently from others, its like reading the transcript of an episode of "Behind the Music." Each character's perspective is there, interspersed with others talking about the same events. Its mostly linear in terms of time, and while some characters are more developed than others - there aren't too many characters. It's enjoyable, you want to know these people and listen to their album. Except that it's not real, but it certainly seems so. It's pretty true for the time with all the drugs, partying and rock and roll from what I know about the 1970s, its almost like the movie Almost Famous in a book form. The reveals at the end were a nice touch as well. It's a good read that I certainly recommend. I also loved the Spotify playlist that goes along with the book, and the song lyrics at the back of the book.

4.5 stars (rounded all the way up)!

There is just no way in hell that I can’t round those stars up to 5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️! Mainly because I flew through it. I had to painfully force myself to stop reading and put my iPad down to tend to life. I took half of a star away because I loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo just slightly more. Slightly.

I can’t explain the sheer excitement I felt when I got approved for Taylor Jenkins Reid’s newest book, Daisy Jones and the Six. After reading The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (my top book of 2017), I just KNEW I had to read this. That and my love for music - all music, but rock is my all time favorite.

When you start this book, you immediately think you’re about to read an autobiography about a real band. TJR does a fantastic job of making the reader think they are reading non-fiction. The structure of this book is incredible. It is written in interview format, minus the questions. Each beloved character takes part talking about about Daisy Jones and how she joins the rock band The Six. We get into the personal and professional lives of these characters, the rise and fall of the band, love, drug addiction, cheating, friendship and forgiveness. The end is just so TJR. She tends to throw that unexpected curveball that just makes you just love her and her storytelling.

I know a lot of my fellow Goodreads friends got approved for this book, but many did not. I feel very lucky that I was one of the chosen ones!

Thank you to NetGalley, Random House - Ballantine and Taylor Jenkins Reid for the advanced copy in exchange for my review of this original and fun book.

I absolutely love Taylor Jenkins Reid's books and writing. Daisy Jones and The Six left me feeling like I just read a book about real people, and I wanted to find out more about them. The book made my heart hurt when the characters were hurting and cry when the characters were crying. At first I was a little skeptical about the format of the book, but ended up loving it at the end. It made it easy for the author to tell the story of this band from different viewpoints, and there were many different viewpoints from members of the band. I devoured this book in only a few hours. Definitely one of my top reads (if not the top) of 2018.

I'm a big fan of Taylor Jenkins Reid. She keeps me on mytoes. DJ&TS really threw me off at first. They writing style took me a few chapters to get into, but once I did, I didn't notice anymore. It reads like a magazine interview. Think 1970's Rolling Stone.
There were times that i forgot this was not a real band and considered googling them to see pitctures. Silly me....

There were lots of ups and downs and it all tied together well. It's a very well written book. The whole tone of the book was spot on.

This book came so highly recommended and I have loved every book I read by this author. However, I did not like this one. I didn't like the way it was told in all dialogue and there was no real climax.

This story was so realistic I spent much time searching the internet for the "real" Daisy Jones and the Six band! Gripping read on a back story of rock-n-roll and the lifestyles of the players in this scene. Told in an interview format, the reader is ultimately surprised when the identity of the interviewer is revealed. It was hard to identify an antagonist in the novel, because Reid gave each character the a strong voice in expressing their perspectives as to the reasons for the demise of a star rock band in its heyday.

A fictional story, which at many times the reader will think it's nonfiction, that gives a realistic look into a band in the 70's - their ups & downs within the band and in their personal lives. Very well written as an interview with all of the band members.

My expectations were high for this book just bc I’ve seen it everywhere and there’s so much hype and the series that’s coming soon based on this book. Everything just screamed sensational and it truly was just that—sensational! The writing is so stylistically different from anything I’ve read and at first I thought it would make reading more complicated, but there was just this natural flow through the entire book. The story is so fascinating and the characters felt so real that I kept wanting to Google them to get a glimpse into their lives as the story was playing out so seamlessly. I like the author twist and the email at the end, giving hope all the way to the very last page. I’m so grateful that I got an ARC from NetGalley for this book bc I really enjoyed every minute of reading this book. I’m so interested in seeing what Reese Witherspoon does with the series. I think as of now there’s going to be 13 episodes and I think they’re going to be so much fun and high energy and the sensationalism of the 70s and rock and roll and just this crazy, wonderful, messed up, drug fueled time of all of these characters’ lives! It’s going to be so fun to see such a great book unfold onscreen! Everyone should believe the hype they hear about this book bc it is just THAT EFFING AWESOME!

** 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!!

Wonderful Book! Taylor Jenkins Reid has done it again! Captured me right away. I love the way it was written, going from person to person. A love triangle with a TWIST!

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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