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A review by elissapoletti
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
challenging
emotional
sad
medium-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
4.5
‘You have these lines you won't cross. But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won't instantly come
to an end.
You've taken a big, black, bold line and you've made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and you think, “There was a line here once, I think.”’
- Billy Dunne, Daisy Jones and The Six.
Daisy Jones & the Six reads like a doco/biopic about the fictional 70's rock band of the same name. It follows their rise, and the reasons behind their split.
Another great one from TJR. I actually struggled to read this, mainly because of the content of the novel, it's a great book, but also felt a bit close, took me over
a month to get through. It also touched on Lupus which is the disease that prematurely killed my Gran, so I was pretty moved by that too, no one talks about Lupus.
‘I drove to the beach. I don’t know why. I just had to drive somewhere, so I drove until the road ended. I drove until I hit the sand.
I parked my car and I was feeling so ashamed and so embarrassed and so stupid and so alone and lamely and pathetic and dirty and awful. And then, I got really mad.
I got mad at everything about him. That he’d pulled away, that he’d mad me embarrassed, that he didn’t feel the way I wanted him to feel. Or, maybe it was that I suspected he did feel that way and he wasn’t admitting it. But any way you wanted to spin it, I was angry. It wasn’t rational. I mean, what ever really is? But as irrational as it was, I was livid. I was furious. There was rage in my chest.
We are talking about probably the first man in my life who really saw me, who ever really understood me, who has so much in common with me… and he still didn’t love me.
When you find that rare person who really knows who you are and they still don’t love you…
I was burning.’
- Daisy Jones, Daisy Jones and The Six.
‘I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?’
- Camilla Dunne, Daisy Jones and The Six.
to an end.
You've taken a big, black, bold line and you've made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and you think, “There was a line here once, I think.”’
- Billy Dunne, Daisy Jones and The Six.
Daisy Jones & the Six reads like a doco/biopic about the fictional 70's rock band of the same name. It follows their rise, and the reasons behind their split.
Another great one from TJR. I actually struggled to read this, mainly because of the content of the novel, it's a great book, but also felt a bit close, took me over
a month to get through. It also touched on Lupus which is the disease that prematurely killed my Gran, so I was pretty moved by that too, no one talks about Lupus.
‘I drove to the beach. I don’t know why. I just had to drive somewhere, so I drove until the road ended. I drove until I hit the sand.
I parked my car and I was feeling so ashamed and so embarrassed and so stupid and so alone and lamely and pathetic and dirty and awful. And then, I got really mad.
I got mad at everything about him. That he’d pulled away, that he’d mad me embarrassed, that he didn’t feel the way I wanted him to feel. Or, maybe it was that I suspected he did feel that way and he wasn’t admitting it. But any way you wanted to spin it, I was angry. It wasn’t rational. I mean, what ever really is? But as irrational as it was, I was livid. I was furious. There was rage in my chest.
We are talking about probably the first man in my life who really saw me, who ever really understood me, who has so much in common with me… and he still didn’t love me.
When you find that rare person who really knows who you are and they still don’t love you…
I was burning.’
- Daisy Jones, Daisy Jones and The Six.
‘I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it's not faith, right?’
- Camilla Dunne, Daisy Jones and The Six.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Infidelity, and Abortion