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A review by andye_reads
Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
3.0
Thanks so much to Penguin Random House Audio for the audiobook copy for review.
If you're going to read this one, I HIGHLY recommend the audiobook. It was really well done with a full cast of awesome narrators that truly made this book so much more realistic.
I don’t know how I feel about this book. It was entertaining enough. But the absolute glorification of the manic pixie dream girl was annoying.
Edit: OK, here it is. This book is being touted as this great feminist message, but the main character literally spends the entire book looking for validation. Validation from her parents, her friends, her fans, men, more men, even more men. And when she doesn’t find it, she turned to drugs because she’s not strong enough to cope with life. Then she does whatever she wants, whenever she wants, to whomever she wants, no matter who it hurts. She treated everyone in her life like absolute crap. If that’s feminism, I don’t want to be a feminist.
However, the line...
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.”
...was awesome, and if she actually lived that line, I’d be there for that.
If you're going to read this one, I HIGHLY recommend the audiobook. It was really well done with a full cast of awesome narrators that truly made this book so much more realistic.
I don’t know how I feel about this book. It was entertaining enough. But the absolute glorification of the manic pixie dream girl was annoying.
Edit: OK, here it is. This book is being touted as this great feminist message, but the main character literally spends the entire book looking for validation. Validation from her parents, her friends, her fans, men, more men, even more men. And when she doesn’t find it, she turned to drugs because she’s not strong enough to cope with life. Then she does whatever she wants, whenever she wants, to whomever she wants, no matter who it hurts. She treated everyone in her life like absolute crap. If that’s feminism, I don’t want to be a feminist.
However, the line...
“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse.
I am not a muse.
I am the somebody.”
...was awesome, and if she actually lived that line, I’d be there for that.