A review by taylormargaret
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

adventurous fast-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

2.5

My first Taylor Jenkins Reid book. TJR writes this one as a script for a documentary of the band, so it’s only interview tapes. This makes it feel like the outline of a book, without the narrative and settings to back it up. TJR is clearly great at writing dialogue and just thought, “what if I don’t do anything else?” Why isn’t she writing plays? This can hardly be called a novel. I mean, I didn’t hate reading this, but it was hardly fleshed out and emotionally inviting. Besides, TJR has a problem which is that she thinks she can do the work of referencing the craziness of the 70s rock’n’roll scene with all the booze, sex and drugs without actually describing it for us. This makes it seem pretty boring and has you, as a reader, relying on what you might’ve seen in “Almost Famous” to give the work any kind of setting. 
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