Daisy Jones And The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
(Format used for this read: Audiobook)
I completed two books within 24 hours of each other…one last night and one this morning while doing work around the house…
So this is the first time I think I’ve posted two book reviews in one day 🤣
I have entered next level “book nerd” status…and I’m all about it! 😃
This book was a completely different vibe than the other novel I just completed…but equally as good.
Here is the summary:
“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 ’n’ 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 gotta say that if you are into audiobooks this is a MUST listen!
This book switches back and forth between all the characters telling their stories and the ensemble of voices they put together is PHENOMENAL.
Just tremendously good!
Jennifer Beals is the voice of Daisy….yes THAT Jennifer Beals!…and her voice embodies the character to 100 percent perfection.
This book feels like a prolonged, in depth episode of “Behind the Music” and I was CAPTIVATED.
It isn’t just a story about a band…
it’s a story about following your dreams, finding your own self worth and the difficult layers of all kinds relationships.
Addiction is also heavily addressed in the story from the voice of an addict…and I feel like it is an honest and accurate portrayal of the struggles and pain that it causes a person, as well as the effects on those around them.
What I also found interesting was the exploration of the concept of perspectives and memories…
how the same exact event can happen to multiple people yet recollections and points of view are VASTLY different.
This book is light and heavy at the same time…but so entertaining.
It really pulls you in.
It was a quick listen for me because I just couldn’t stop!