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

emotional reflective medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I read Evelyn Hugo and I wasn’t the biggest fan. It was good, but it wasn’t for me. So, I didn’t think I’d read another by Reid. Daisy Jones and the Six ended up in my lap simply because it was available in the library and I thought, sure why not? I’m glad I did. 

It had some amazing points that were super refined while also having unfinished ideas. Which made for a good read, that left some dissatisfaction.

The characters are fun. There’s many of them so it was work keeping up with them. What helped is listening to this as an audiobook. Each character had a different voice. There aren’t many books that are better as audiobooks, but I think this one is.

Most characters, individually were well built. I liked their narcissisms, their self loathing and their vices, thier morals. And the writing showed well what characters thought of themselves and what others thought of them. This part of the book was done very well. This book needed unreliable narrators and it delivered.

The problem begins with character interactions. They aren’t fully fleshed out. Characters have contentions but they’re all just built on jealousy and self pride. There’s not much complexity. Just cliches. The love affairs are also cliches.
Billy and Daisy’s attraction to each other was so boring. It had no foundation and it dragged on so long while also having no development.
Cliches are ok. Just don’t make them boring. Give them a new angle and build them on something. This didn’t happen here.

Possibly one of the least realistic depiction of addiction I’ve read. Sobriety doesn’t work for a few days and then forever. You don’t just have to make up your mind to be sober.

Camila, Daisy, and Karen are all amazingly written female characters. They all have strong ideas, many of which strongly oppose each other. And none of them are wrong for it. They’re is respect and kindness between all the women. However, it doesn’t sit well that the only black female character is just a support to Daisy Jones.

I don’t know what’s with Reid and connecting the
interviewers to a character in the story. It worked in Evelyn Hugo, made for a good twist and reasoning. However, in Daisy Jones the interviewer being Billy’s daughter just makes me think that the story would be even more bias than  necessary because who wants to confess in front of their child like that?


 The ending was not my favourite.
Killing off Camila so that Daisy and Billy can be together was stupid. Daisy and Billy had passing attractions and were never good for one another. It wasn’t a love for another time. Why would Camila cheer on her daughter to support this?
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