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

emotional reflective sad slow-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

3.5

I liked this book a lot- the aesthetics of it, the writing, and the heavy Fleetwood Mac allusions. I could have done without the entirety of the book being in the interview format. I appreciated the differing perspectives on the events that this offered, and I thought there was real poignancy in the times where a character would explain their past motivations and that be punctuated by another character saying “I thought everything was fine” or a perspective that was so naive about another’s perspective.
I did think that Daisy and Billy were going to have a more solid relationship, and I thought in light of it all, Camila was a bit cruel in the end to Daisy. Camila was someone who prioritized her marriage over everything, but I think her take on what that meant is so different from mine that I had trouble maintaining my sympathy towards both her and Billy and what it meant to them to value their marriage. In a lot of ways, I think Camila was just as culpable as Billy and both of them put their doubts in each other on Daisy.
Overall, I liked this book a lot, more than Evelyn Hugo (the only other TJR book I’ve read.) 
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