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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

82 reviews

bookcaptivated's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-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

4.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Grief, and Self harm

scmiller's review

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad 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

4.0

4.1/10

Enjoyed the narrative technique of the novel — characters recounting events in an interview, engaging in dialogue with the interviewer. 

I was impressed with how Jenkins Reid’s wrote her characters’ dialogue so conversationally. It was convincing and effortless. 

I liked the stark discrepancies and contradictions between characters when recounting events. They were all unreliable in that way and I like how the story leaves the truth unclear. 

I have a love/hate relationship with novels that are about music. It’s the same dissatisfaction I feel when watching cooking shows. You can describe it and show it to me all you want but it’s not in my mouth. 

I consumed this novel via audiobook and really loved that there was a full cast. It was like I was listening to a play on the radio. It was so emotive and artistically done. Arguably one of the best audiobook narrations I’ve heard. 

I found the ending of the band sudden. We all knew it was coming but yet I still found the way it was written anticlimactic and incomplete somehow, and not in a satisfying literary way.

I found the attempt at actually writing the band’s hit song “Honeycomb” and playing it at the end of the audiobook embarrassing??? You can’t write a novel and paint a picture about how extraordinary and talented and huge this band was and then expose my ears to whatever that was and expect me to say, yes, people definitely would have gone crazy over this song. It was cringey.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Misogyny, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, War, and Grief

quinn24's review

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

formatted like a documentary, Daisy Jones & The Six follows this band through their rise to stardom and subsequent break up. The characters are incredibly realistic and their emotions and behaviours are very real, all of them are unreliable narrators so it’s funny when you read something from one person and then it’s told differently from another. I don’t have any personals experience with addiction but i think that topic was handled with tact. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Cursing, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Vomit

Minor: Death, Blood, and Chronic illness

tilde_c_s's review

emotional funny hopeful reflective tense medium-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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug use

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Grief

Minor: Pregnancy and Misogyny

sstrawberry_fieldss's review against another edition

emotional inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy

bmf223's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Cursing

Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Violence

eib_21's review against another edition

challenging emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Suicidal thoughts, Drug abuse, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Abortion

walkie_check's review

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

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

4.75

Daisy Jones & the Six is another great book by Taylor Jenkins Reid. If I were going to nitpick, I would say her style of an 11th hour child-related plot twist only really works the first time (and I read Evelyn Hugo before I got StoryGraph), but that is a minor thing. The ending also feels a little abrupt. But I love the level of detail, and the inclusion of the lyrics from the album in the back. I love the messy tension between Billy and Daisy. I love fictionalized versions of things we tend to use to share the truth, like a documentary or like an academic paper (House of Leaves ftw), and this obviously delivered in that realm. I wish I had listened to it as audiobook, but by the time I realized that was the best format, I wanted to read the book too much to wait for that version.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Addiction, Drug use, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Cursing, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion, Death, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Violence, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Self harm, and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

weepingstones's review

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Drug abuse, Pregnancy, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Terminal illness, and Addiction

Moderate: Abandonment, Drug use, Injury/Injury detail, and War

Minor: Abortion