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

challenging dark emotional reflective sad fast-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 was surprised at how much I enjoyed this book. I was really put off by the interview format at first, thinking that it would feel detached and emotionless, and I wouldn’t connect with the characters. My experience was the opposite. I loved hearing every character’s thoughts and feelings and it never felt clunky or repetitive. I love how the characters remembered things slightly differently, highlighting the fallibility of memory and people’s nature to remember things the way they want to remember them. We got so many fully fleshed out complex characters, no one was fully likable or unlikable, they were all just human. I was unexpectedly brought to the verge of tears several times, because by seeing both characters’ perspectives of a conflict almost simultaneously, I empathized with both on each side of an impossible situation, and felt the heartbreak of the impossibility of mutual happiness. I don’t really have any negatives to say about this book, it’s just the content (a lot of drug abuse) that kept it from 5 stars for me personally. That’s not to say it wasn’t handled well, it’s just personal preference.
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