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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

216 reviews

samlhfc98's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Death, Drug use, and Mental illness

karirae7's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexual content, Abortion, Death, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, and Toxic relationship

marxnapxrez's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

Okay, theres a lot to unpack...
At first i was a bit dissapointed as i was struggling to keep up with the book, I dont know if it is because I had a very hyped idea because of the tv series or because i have never read this interview-type of narrative. But it was being such a let down for me. But after the first half of the book, oh boy that was it.
I guess i grow fond of the characters plus Taylor character build and just her way of writing really came through. I wanted to keep on reading, such that i read the last half in two days having startes the book months ago.
At the end, is such a good book, where you can see a fictional world but so realistic that catches you and make you feel like a fan of the band reading a memoir. It gave me such a nostalgic feeling, like reading the biography of my favourite band and knowing them better. The end was heart wrenching even thought I already knew it.
< SPOILER >I love each of the characters (minus eddie couldn't care less about him), saying goodbye to teddy was hard but to Camila it was impossible. < SPOILER >
She's such a warm character that has a loving and motherly vibe, she was everyone supporter, the scene with Daisy was just...amazing. How she can express such love to make you feel you matter.
Taylor is a great writter with such strong power in her words, can't wait to keep expanding this world with the rest of her books.🤍

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Drug use, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Addiction, Alcohol, Eating disorder, and Infidelity

madelinequinne's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

an absolutely beautiful book. you really feel like you’re there with the band when you’re reading this, and the imagery and prose were gorgeous. I now wanna be a rockstar in the 70s

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Infidelity, Drug abuse, Addiction, Drug use, Toxic relationship, Alcohol, Cursing, and Mental illness

Moderate: Abortion, Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, and Grief

itzme's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Mental illness, and Addiction

Moderate: Death, Pregnancy, Cursing, and Alcoholism

Minor: Abortion and Grief

walkie_check's review against another edition

emotional sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Moderate: Abortion, Misogyny, Sexual content, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Death, Domestic abuse, Pregnancy, Adult/minor relationship, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicide attempt, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Terminal illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Injury/Injury detail, Gaslighting, Cursing, Child abuse, Car accident, Mental illness, and Medical content

meg_'s review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Struggling with how to rate/review this because I don't want other's hype and opinions to impact my feelings on this. This is objectively a really good book. The thing about Taylor Jenkins Reid's books is that the development of each character is seriously perfection. Each character is so well fleshed out and complex and I just love reading each of their individual stories. This story was special because the dynamic between each band member and their kind of revolution around Daisy and Billy was so interesting. And obviously Daisy and Billy's dynamic is so strained but also sooooo good. I absolutely love yearning and angst in a love story and this definitely had that to the extreme. 

The biggest struggle I had in enjoying this is obviously that Billy is married throughout this whole thing. It's a story about a rock band back in the day so there will clearly be some wild shit but I just absolutely despise cheating plots and struggled a lot with that part of this story. Especially because Camilla was such a lovely person and wonderful friend. It was hard to read, but I know that this author loves to write hard to read stories. I have mixed feelings on this one for sure, but I know most people would and will love it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Infidelity

leilawoodhouse's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Mental illness, Addiction, and Drug abuse

Moderate: Eating disorder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pregnancy, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Self harm, and Emotional abuse

enchantedelfie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Physical abuse, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Rape, Mental illness, Death of parent, Car accident, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

paperbackprincess19's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This is a MUST READ I just didn’t give it a 5 star as there was so many characters it was hard to keep up at first, but as the story goes you understand why there had to be that many characters.

I highly recommend reading the audiobook version as I think I found myself more immersed, knowing their voices (seeing as it’s a rock & roll band story) plus with so many characters, knowing their voices helped significantly. 

It’s a story of a band in the 1970s that lived the rock & roll lifestyle, what they got up to, how they sky rocketed to fame and towards the last 15mins where they were now. I really believed that the main focal of this story was on Daisy Jones, one character and the rest would play secondary, but this was not the case at all.

All characters got the same amount of air time and their stories were all as important as Daisy’s. Very well written, I don’t know how she wrote it the way she did but it was done amazingly.

The writing technique was an interview of the band and Daisy Jones, but it was so well written that it didn’t feel like it was a simple interview and a “where are they now” story, Taylor Jenkins Reid took you on the journey of The Six and Daisy Jones, even Simone’s (Daisy’s best friend) story was finished and rounded nicely.

Another amazing read from Taylor Jenkins Read! This is the 2nd book I’ve read by her, the first being The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, any Recs for which I should read next by this Author?

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Drug abuse

Minor: Abortion