Having read (and thoroughly enjoyed) The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, I was very excited to have been chosen to receive an advanced copy of Reid's latest novel, Daisy Jones & The Six. I am blown away at how very different in style and tone this novel is - it's hard to believe the same person wrote this book (although I did find myself highlighting an extremely large amount of great lines again - this woman can really turn a phrase). This one is even better than Evelyn, in my opinion. Actually, this is probably one of the best books I've read all year. Seriously.

Written in the style of a "Rockumentary," Daisy Jones reads as a transcription of interviews pieced together in order to detail the rise and fall of a fictional 1970's rock band. It's a straight-up rock-and-roll story that draws you in just like any real rock-and-roll story might (think of the movie "Almost Famous" or the documentary "History of the Eagles," or anything you've heard about Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac). But at the same time, this novel is so much more than that. Reid takes us beyond the basic drama that is typical of a rock-and-roll band and somehow manages to convey a message about love, longing, and the struggle to connect with others. Most of all, it's the three female characters in this book who really shine - they are each extremely different from one another, yet it is the three of them who quickly become the reliable narrators in the story. Their actions and relationships (especially with each other) are what makes the novel shine.

And the songs they talk about make you really wish they were real songs that you can hear on a radio. That speaks volumes to me of what a talented writer can do. She wrote a fictional song and made me want to hear it. Think about that. Reid includes a section at the end of the book with all of the lyrics to these fictional songs, and you find yourself wishing that someone will make a movie where you can actually see the performances of them. I really do hope someone does...

Can't give this book too many stars!

Very enjoyable read. Brought me back to my young adult days of the 70's in Los Angeles. Very true to the era and the feeling of the times. As always, I enjoy all books I read by Taylor Reid. Her characters are relatable, her writing very lyrical and vivid. I particularly liked the format of this book -- told through interviews and flashbacks, and I always like novels written from the different points of view. Thank you NetGalley for giving me a "first look" at this entertaining novel!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher, for this free eARC.

I am a huge fan of Taylor Jenkins Reid. I have read a few of her previous books, and absolutely loved them!

I did enjoy this story, and that is was written in a interview style. I do think I would have enjoyed it more, if it was written a differnt way. Either way, I loved the story line and all the characters.

I can't wait to read what she comes out with next!

I loved this book. I really enjoyed the interview/memoir style that the author used it-It made the story so much better. The members of the band were so fleshed out-I could picture them all in my mind clearly. I highly recommend this book to any and everyone one. While you are reading you are trying to figure out how the members of the band end up--will Billy and Camila last? I see the similarities to a band like Fleetwood Mac but then again not at all like Fleetwood Mac...The ending was very satisfying and I think Taylor Jenkins Reid is brilliant. I am going to find her other books and read them right away.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the chance to read and give an honest review.

Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book so much. It was an emotional ride. Each and every character had a distinct voice and was integral to the story. I adored how the story was slowly revealed, piece by piece, by each of the members of the band, as well as a few others. I loved that the tension was continually building. I felt like I was part of all the joys and part of all the sorrows. There was such a depth to the band and their road to success was definitely paved with some tough times and some amazing moments. Every book Taylor Jenkins Reid writes is magic and this book is no exception. Daisy Jones and The Six is a book that will suck you in and will not let you go. You will go on this ride with the band, you will feel like you are there (really there)...rooting for them, mourning with them and celebrating with them. This book is sheer perfection!!!

NOTE: Will share on all my social media outlets at pub time!

This book is to Rock and Roll what the 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo was to the Silver Screen. The book is written as an in-depth interview, think Rolling Stone or a MTV special, of members of a mega band from its beginning to current days. It is so well written, a beautifully told love story. Sex, drugs and rock n roll! It was interesting to see how people remember the same times differently. Three sides to every story: yours, mine and the truth!

After reading two books by this author, I’m adding her to my list of “I’d buy anything she writes”. Her writing is unique and enjoyable. Characters are real, and although situations believable to the story line. I can’t wait to see what Ms. Reid does to top this! Warning: clear your schedule when you pick this book up. Fast and furious read!

Thanks to Net Galley and the Publisher for this ARC. Opinion is my own.

Book was reviewed on BookBub and Goodreads. Amazon review will be posted after review date!

This book grabbed me from the first word. I loved the format it used and felt like I was living in the moments described. I would highly recommend this book to all of my friends.

Daisy Jones and The Six is one of those books that I dare you stop reading unless you absolutely must! I did have to eventually fall asleep but I picked it up the next day and dragged it everywhere I went; who says you can’t get reading done when you’re stopped at traffic lights?

This is only the third book I’ve read by this author and each one has been better than the last. I just adored Evelyn in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and got way more than I expected from it. I think the title threw me and led me to assume it would be much lighter than it was. Daisy Jones and The Six did not let me go. It took me captive with a front row seat into this 70s rock and roll band that survived on sex, drugs, love and music.

How original for a fictional story to be told completely in an interview format? It worked so well as each of the band members remembered their own version of the same situation from several decades earlier. This book does not disappoint on the drama scale; much of it surrounding a love triangle that involved stability versus passion.

Reese Witherspoon has already bought the rights and is making it into a television series. This means the music – with lyrics that weep with heartbreak, speak to your soul, and promise you love – will come to life. I cannot wait! I dog-eared so much of this book so if you’re someone who reads the quotes I note, you’ve got a lot to go through.

Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favorite authors and I was so psyched when I won a copy of her next novel, Daisy Jones & the Six (releasing March 5th, available for pre-order). I have to say, timing this book with catching, A Star is Born, this week really could not have been more perfect. Reid has crafted a fictional band story set in the 1970’s that was so beautifully rendered that you can’t believe it is even fiction.

Daisy is the girl that every girl wants to be. She is stunning and has the ability to capture any man’s attention, sneaking out to clubs when she is just a kid, and capturing the heart of anyone her heart desires. She finds she has a knack for singing, a knack that people spend years trying to train their voices to achieve.

The Six is lead by Billy Dunne and is also getting noticed in the music world. Billy is an addict who has just discovered that he is going to be a father and he feels he needs to sow his wild oats before settling down.

When Billy & Daisy cross paths, a producer realizes that putting these two voices together could be just the ticket to make them all successful.

Told in interview format, the reader uncovers the story of Daisy Jones & the Six from their humble beginnings to their explosive endings. It’s the stuff of legends, as all good rock and roll stories are.

As a reader, don’t be surprised if you don’t find yourself thinking of these people as real people. Reid is such a wildly talented writer that it should come as no surprise that this book is just as wildy fabulous as she is.

Be sure to pre-order and read this one before you see it!

I'm a big fan of Taylor Jenkins Reid. However, I could not get into this book. I found the format annoying and hard to follow, and I didn't feel like I was getting much of the story. DNF

Yaaaaass! I absolutely adored Reid’s 2017 novel, The Seven Husbands Of Evelyn Hugo and was excited to see a new novel coming in 2019. While this novel is completely different from her last, it is equally brilliant!!!

This novel is set up as an edited extended interview with the members of the band, Daisy Jones & The Six. It reads like the closed captioning of a biopic. I thought that the author handled the format well and that the constraint made for a very well told tale, indeed. Only once did the frame break and that was with purpose.

I was captivated by the members of this band and the unfolding of the story. I read this in a single sitting, staying up past my bedtime to finish.

One especially sweet treat is the lyrics to all of the songs on the band’s fictional last album in the final pages. Oh, how I want to play that album!

I was so excited to receive an advanced reader copy (c/o BookSparks) of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s newest novel, and I’m sorry to say it won’t be out until March 2019. The novel focuses on a fictional 1970’s rock band, their rise to fame and inevitable breakup, and does so using a unique format – an interview transcript.

What makes this book so good is that the characters feel real, the band feels real. In fact, I wanted Daisy Jones and The Six to be real. That’s how good of a storyteller Taylor Jenkins Reid is.

If I’m being nit-picky, I found the transcript format a little tiresome at times. (And, I would have loved for the dialogue to be broken up with pics of concerts and ticket stubs, but I imagine that would have been a ton of work since the band is fictional.)

You don’t have to be into music or 70’s rock to enjoy the story, and if you are a fan of Taylor Jenkins Reid’s other books, you won’t want to miss this.

Taylor Jenkins Reid does it again. I've loved everything she has written, and this is no exception. "Daisy Jones and the Six" reads like a compelling magazine article -- so much so, that I read the whole thing in one sitting and didn't realize several hours had passed. The parallels to real-life 1970's rock bands are easy to make (definite shades of Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles here) but the story of Daisy Jones and the Six is entirely their own. It's easy to simultaneously love and hate Daisy and Billy, and I found myself hoping that they didn't;t screw things up. I'm anxiously awaiting the Amazon series, as I want to hear these songs brought to life and experience the story of these flawed, but perfectly human, characters again.

This was beautiful. Once I started reading, I could not stop, I loved each of these characters. I love anything TJR does, and the book was getting an INSANE amount of good reviews so I had to read it. I was not expecting the interview format, but it really worked for this story. You feel like you are listening to a conversation between friends that you should not be privy to, but cannot walk away from. Full disclosure, while reading this, I thought it was a true story, and just tried to look them up to listen to their music, and did further research when nothing came up. Gahhhhh. I mean really, that's how good TJR is, no? I am now a little sad this is fiction, but man I was right there with each of the characters, feeling their pain, enjoying their successes, and sad that they broke up and the story was over. Reid is an absolute genius, and I loved every minute of this, may have even teared up at the end. I will definitely be thinking of this for weeks to come.

Thank you to the publisher and to NetGalley for an electronic copy in exchange for my review. All above opinions are my own.

I still have one more TJR book to read that I've been holding on to for years now, just in case of emergency, but I still managed to read two books by her in 2018. I read her short story and this... I knew I couldn't wait until closer to the release date. The vibe of the book seemed to be more in line with EVELYN HUGO than her traditional contemporary love stories like AFTER I DO, so I was pretty optimistic.

I'll be honest - the first 30% of the book felt a bit generic to me. I was getting nervous but had faith she'd turn it around, like I knew she could or would. The story goes back and forth, introducing Daisy and tho other band members in The Six. There was a lot of "background" information and then stereotypical rockstar stuff. Sex, drugs, drama - the usual. I wasn't overly impressed or excited but again, I was optimistic. The "generic rock star" bent didn't really improve or change THAT much but I'll admit that things did get more intricate

The stories from each of the members of the band, plus some staff/crew mixed in, blended together seamlessly to show where every single one of their heads were at. It's like a successful version of All of This is True - people sharing their perspectives in an interwoven narrative. I love the format of "piecing together" a book through emails, lyrics, interviews, and more... It's such a fun experience. The synopsis implied that there would be a lot of that, but it was realistically more like 95% interview transcripts. The format made the book a little odd and detached but honestly, I think it worked overall. I can't imagine it working in any other format really.

The relationships in this were fascinating. I don't want to really list them all out because of potential spoilers, but there was definitely a delicate web connecting everyone in different ways. All of the connections between people and certain plot points were shaken up through the middle/end but I expected a little more wow factor. There was some kind of ~twist~ (nothing huge) toward the end but that was it.

I feel like this book will look even better to me in hindsight, but I feel mixed overall. TJR has a way with words no matter the format. Her short story, written in letters, left a huge impact on me; she has a way of capturing emotion regardless of how it looks. It kind of sucks because I put TJR on a pedestal and tend to expect perfection, so I always run the risk of disappointment. I can't help it though; SHE IS THE BEST.

THis book wasn't for me. I was a fan of Taylor Jenkins Reids books, but this one was just not holding my interest. I know a lot of people may have liked this book, but I just couldn't get into it.
THank you Netgalley for the opportunity to review this book.

I loved this book and read it in a day. Well, almost a day. I saved the last 75 pages to read the day after I started it because I didn't want it to end.

The SIx is a band. Daisy Jones is a wild child of the 70s. When they come together to write and record an album, it's amazing and heartbreaking in equal doses. I couldn't get enough of all of the characters. The books is told as an interview with all band members, Daisy, their managers, agents, girlfriends and friends. It was different from anything I've read. I have always loved this author, but this is very different from her prior rom-com/chick lit (although always a cut WAY above typical rom-com/chick lit) and she hit it perfectly.

Daisy Jones & the Six is the story of a fictitious band in the 70’s, and the novel is told in the style of an interview with the bandmates, and other various characters that surrounded them in their heyday. Starting with Daisy Jones being on her own, as a mesmerizing and enigmatic teen on the strip. And The Six, a band with a troubled, addict for a lead singer, who already has some success. Everything comes together when Daisy duets with Billy, and then joins the band. Together they are captivating and explosive. And this is their tale.

This book is truly sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll. You have a very young girl running around LA getting into all sorts of trouble, that we know was ACTUALLY happening in the music scene at that time. You have a heavy drug and alcohol presence, but also the ramifications of abuse, plus a character who is truly trying to stay off of the stuff. Being told in interviews, it felt very “Behind the Music”. And then you have the rock. You have characters discussing the writing process. Complaining about using each others instruments. Petty disagreements in recording studios. Arguments over other interviews and placement in photographs. Very reminiscent of the movie Almost Famous.

The author built this entire world surrounding these fictitious singers, including all of the song lyrics in the back of the book…which I thought was great since they are referenced throughout. And being an interview book, filled with so many characters, I really felt she kept their voices unique. I didn’t struggle to remember who was who as I was reading, which is pretty amazing considering the scope of the novel. I never put this one down. I read it straight through, and honestly loved every minute of it. I’d be lying if, like a lot of the other early reviewers, I didn’t catch a slight Fleetwood Mac vibe off of the central characters. I guess that just means that TJR created a very cool lead, as I’m a BIG fan of seventies era Stevie Nicks.

I can’t recommend Daisy Jones & The Six highly enough, especially if you too are a fan of seventies music and/or things from that decade. Yes, some folks might struggle with the interview format and the multitude of characters, but I never had an issue with it. By the end of the book, I felt like I should’ve been able to find old live performances of the band on YouTube, they felt so real to me. I was completely sucked into their world. Pre-order (the book comes out in March), put it on your TBR list, write this bad boy on your calendar, etc. You’ll probably hear more about it because Reese Witherspoon bought it up to create a series for Amazon. I can see it in my head already!!

I've officially read all of the books by Taylor Jenkins Reid, and I am truly entranced by her writing. She has some amazing talent, and I've loved every book she's written. When I saw she had a new book coming out, I made it my business to try and access it in any capacity, and lucky for me, BookSparks helped me get a copy through NetGalley, so thank you to both of them!

Daisy Jones and the Six is colorful, realistic, and all-encompassing. I had to research to find out whether or not this was based on a real band - that's how realistic it came off!

The story follows a band called "The Six", and the solo artist Daisy Jones, and their journey in which they meet, team up, and become the next big thing in rock-n-roll. Daisy Jones is a person I'd want to know. She reminds me of a rocker Carrie Fisher (the early years of course). She's consistently a hot mess, engulfed in drugs and fame, but at the heart of it all is a genuine artist. Her sexual tension with the band leader, Billy, is a tension that I loved exploring throughout the novel, despite Billy's affinity to his wife and children.

I loved the tension, and it was honestly conflicting at times. I was rooting for Billy to remain faithful to Camila, who was probably my favorite female character (sorry Karen and Daisy), but also had this desire to see him and Daisy do the "A Star is Born" thing and fall for one another. 

All in all, this book is sexy, dark, and completely electric. 

The only reason I didn't give it a full 5/5 is because I did not love it as much as I loved The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - that, to me, is my 5/5. However, this one was indeed a close second. I hope TJR stops by on a book tour, because I'd love to meet the woman behind some of my favorite characters! :)

Daisy Jones and the Six—a literary version of VH-1's Behind the Music—tells the story of a fictional band’s rise to fame. With the remake of A Star is Born so popular in theaters right now and the upcoming Freddie Mercury biopic, I’m hoping that Daisy Jones may see a screen adaptation. This book would translate well with just minor rewrites to its interview style.

There were definitely things about this story that didn’t work for me. I felt the book was somewhat lacking in climax. Technically a love story, I expected more friction as the connection between the major players waxed and waned. I found the secondary bandmates passive aggressive and expected more “blow out” action based on how angry they claim to have been in the interviews. I wasn’t sure what the author was going for with the fourth quarter “reveal” of the interviewer’s identity. It didn’t serve to further the narrative, didn’t offer resolution to any conflict, just seemed like a clever party trick.

What Taylor Jenkins Reid does excellently is capture the dichotomy of the late 70s and early 80s being both an era of innocence and excess. Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll are just the standards of Americana, it almost doesn’t occur to these characters that things they are doing could have long reaching implications for them.

Definitely worth a read, I'd recommend this book to music fans and anyone who's always wanted to be an "insider". Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for a free e-galley in exchange for an honest review.