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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

170 reviews

the_amused_forest_gnome's review

emotional inspiring lighthearted reflective sad fast-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

3.75

This was super entertaining and got me in the feelings a bit. I listened to the audiobook and the narration was incredible.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Addiction

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Misogyny, and Sexual content

maxthebeetlesheep's review

dark emotional funny reflective tense medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug use, and Infidelity

Moderate: Sexism, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Mental illness, Abortion, Vomit, Grief, and Death

seismicality's review

dark emotional funny reflective sad tense medium-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

4.5

I really enjoyed this book and read it in a few days. The characters were interesting and I liked how the format of the book was in the style of an interview transcript. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Addiction, and Infidelity

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Sexual content, Abortion, Pregnancy, and Mental illness

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Abandonment, and Misogyny

liabl_28's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny informative inspiring sad tense medium-paced

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

5.0

it's so hard for me to read or watch about infidelity, it makes me sick to my stomach, but god this book can be an exception.
Daisy Jones it's not a girl's girl, but i can't blame her

cause Billy didn't help with that either, Camila deserve  better, she's literally an angel

This is such a good book, the format is awesome for a history like this.

I LOVE IT

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Misogyny, Sexism, Grief, Infidelity, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Pregnancy, Abortion, Toxic friendship, and Suicide

sareidle's review against another edition

emotional reflective medium-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

4.75

I was introduced to this story through the Amazon Prime series and enjoyed the audiobook cast and what they brought to the characters. The listening experience was fantastic and I found myself thinking about the characters and their decisions when I was away from the book. My one critique is that the song lyrics are cringe-inducing and distract from the emotional moments when the songs are being written and later performed. But overall, it was an engrossing read that I highly recommend others try!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Cursing, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Abortion, Eating disorder, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, and Infidelity

apthompson's review against another edition

reflective tense medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Toxic relationship, Abandonment, Drug use, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, and Alcoholism

Moderate: Pregnancy, Sexism, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Minor: Death, Death of parent, Violence, Blood, and Eating disorder

kjm19's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective sad fast-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

3.25

Daisy jones & the six is an emotional read, once you can get beyond the setting that you’ve seen dozens of times. It does feel too real at times with the documentary style, where the author has essentially plucked out a real band and situation and re-written it with other names and dates. However, it’s a nice easy time. 

It’s interesting hearing about all of these people with dreams and everything gets tangled with love and drugs and their relationships with themselves and how those aspects just make it impossible… How all of these people fall together and then have no choice but to walk away in spite of what they want and what they could have all together. It’s heartbreaking in some ways, but reassuring that you’re not the only one going through life as a victim of circumstance. It’s a human experience and we’re all humans (even rockstars). 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Sexism, Abortion, Addiction, Misogyny, Death, Death of parent, Grief, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Cancer, Alcohol, Drug use, and Mental illness

Moderate: Physical abuse, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Blood, and Adult/minor relationship

leannanecdote's review against another edition

dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Addiction, Cursing, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Fire/Fire injury, Infidelity, Abandonment, Abortion, Pregnancy, Sexism, Classism, Death, Drug use, Eating disorder, and Alcohol

wardenred's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

What was performance and what wasn’t? What were we doing to sell records and what did we really mean? Honestly, maybe I knew at one time but I don’t know anymore.

This book was a great reminder to venture outside my comfort genres more. Because I absolutely don't do that enough, but so often when I do, I end up really loving the experience—just like this time.

This is essentially a mockumentary in book form. You know all those special features about bands with cult following that used to be legendary, with all the members gathering round to tell stories of their glory days? Exactly like that, except it's a novel and the band is fictional. At times, though, it barely felt like fiction, because the vibes were captured so well. I'm not a big fan of the 1970s music scene in terms of lifestyle and... shall we say, aesthetic, tbh. I mean, I have playlists chock-full of Led Zeppelin and Fleetwood Mac and whatnot, but that whole sex, drugs & rock-n-roll  vibe isn't my thing. But I used to be in a relationship with someone who was a big fan and wished they'd been born a few decades earlier to witness that scene first-hand, so I kind of got well-versed in it by osmosis. And reading this book really brought me back to all the conversations we used to have about it half my life ago, to the point that I kept wanting to turn around and ask, "Hey, have you read this? What do you think about that one part?" even though that someone hasn't been by my side for ages.

I really loved that "mockumentary" format because of the extra distance it gave the characters when they relived past experiences. Some storylines, like the early parts of Billy and Camilla's marriage, would've had a very different effect of me if they played out "in real time," but with Billy describing his experiences with addiction and rock-n-roll scene as a whole through a more mature lens, never shying away from responsibility for the choices he'd made, gave me more sympathy for him. It made me actually enjoy the bits that would've been frustrating otherwise.

My favorite aspect of the book was how it tackled the subject of joint creativity, and shared creative control, and how creative bonds affect people's emotions and feelings. The entire Aurora section that focused on all the work they put into making their hit album was a big hit for me. There was so much feeling there, and a lot of thoughts on creativity that I found highly relatable despite not being a musician. And the narrative was constructed masterfully. There was, for example, the part where one of the members was feeling left out, and his parts of the interview started fading into the background until he sprung up with some really strong "left out" feelings, and I was like, "Oh shit, how did I completely forget about this character? I liked this character!" 

By the end of the book, some story threads did get a bit melodramatic, but I found that forgivable due to how poignant the prose still was and how fleshed out the characters felt throughout their tribulations. That goes for all of them, but my favorites are all the women in the story—Daisy and Camilla and Karen and Simone—and the tapestry of relationships between them. Some of the scenes focused on each of them legit made me tear up.

Definitely bumping up Taylor Jenkins Reid's other books on my TBR!

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion, Abandonment, and Misogyny

Minor: Death of parent

charliebites's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective sad tense slow-paced

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

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Abortion

Minor: Abandonment, Misogyny, Toxic relationship, Sexual content, and Adult/minor relationship