Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Synopsis from the Publisher: Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things. Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend. The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice. Review: I chose this book for my book club’s March selection as I had been dying to read it for quite some time. Honestly, I didn’t know much about it beyond the fact that a lot of my friends who read it said it was very reminiscent of the Fleetwood Mac drama in the ’70s. I was a little surprised to find that it was not written in a typical novel format but rather as a transcript of interviews with members of the band for a book or documentary. I found I really loved that Reid decided to proceed this way, and honestly, she does such a fantastic job with it that it was still extremely easy to picture the characters and the situations they described throughout the novel. You still get sucked into the atmosphere and the drama of this band, and each character feels fully fleshed out, which is something that could have easily been lost without a novel narration. Men often think they deserve a sticker for treating women like people. The focus of the story is the tense relationship between band founder and lead singer, Billy Dunne, and free-spirited singer Daisy Jones. I don’t want to give away too much of the plot, but essentially, Daisy is a talented singer-songwriter who joins Billy’s band, The Six, after a duet between the two skyrockets The Six onto the charts. The two constantly butt heads, but they’re still drawn to one another. The problem is that Billy is a married father of three and a recovering addict, and Daisy is a reckless, impulsive woman who has a drug and alcohol problem that she seems to have no intention of remedying. I did enjoy the supporting cast as well. Even while Daisy and Billy become the focal point of the band’s success, and the novel, Reid still lets us into the minds of their friends and bandmates, all of whom have their own issues to deal with. There is very little I disliked about Daisy Jones and the Six. It was an incredibly fast read because it’s a page-turner in the best way. I think if I had to pinpoint one thing I was on the fence about, or disliked, it was… well, Daisy. Yes, she is a very complex, messy character, and I appreciate that a lot because perfect women are boring. But there was so much about her that I disliked, and sometimes I felt like Reid was trying a little too hard to make her an “edgy free spirit” with a “I do what I want” attitude. It got to the point where it became obnoxious at times, and for the life of me, I couldn’t quite figure out what it was that Billy saw in her besides her musical talent. There are flashes of vulnerability, but not enough moments of Daisy letting her guard down so we could get to know her beyond the facade. And yes, it’s repeatedly said that she is who she is, take it or leave it, but it was also very clear there was more to her than we could see. Thankfully, Daisy wasn’t so unlikeable that I ended up feeling disappointed with the book. I enjoyed it a lot, and I loved the ending. I absolutely recommend this book. Have you read Daisy Jones and the Six? What did you think of it? Hit me up in the comments! You can read more of my book reviews here!