A review by trinityb2021
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

4.5

4.5 ⭐️ 

I love celebrity culture. I keep up with drama, break ups, new song releases, who hates who, etc. If you are not that kind of person, you probably won’t enjoy this book as much. There’s still a lot in this book about what it means to love and how love can be destructive. A lot about addiction and family. But at it’s core it is about popularity and celebrity culture is corrupting and all consuming. 

This book was so emotional and raw. The format was super unique. I love the way it is written. Not just any author could pull this off and Taylor Jenkins Reid 100% did. This book felt like watching a really good Netflix documentary. I don’t even care about rock bands and don’t know anything about music released at that time but still felt fully immersed in that era by reading this book. 

Every character was great. I loved that the cast was small. Very similar to Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (and imagine my surprise when a recurring character shows up! It took me WAY too long to figure out). 

I was engrossed in this story and was surprised when it was over. It has such a sudden end but it fits perfectly. I wouldn’t have it any other way. 

Slightly unrelated side note: I also love that because of the TV show there is a soundtrack made from the songs the band released. Some of it is pretty decent! Not my style because of the heavy 70s/80s rock sound but some songs are listenable. I wish that they would’ve stuck closer to the lyrics and themes from the book tho. Some songs (I noticed Aurora in particular but probably others too) seem like their meaning has completely changed. And big moments from the book had their lines removed. Honeycomb doesn’t have the line that gets switched and Aurora doesn’t seem to be about Camila? I haven’t seen the show but it seems like they’re focusing too much on the love story in the songs and not enough about the rest of it. Drugs and addiction play a huge part in celebrity culture and I like that it wasn’t shied away from and also not glorified. It has handled really well. A lot of their songs are about those topics and it feels like the songs Amazon did are not about that at all.