Book Review: Daisy Jones & The Six

Synopsis (taken from Goodreads):

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.

Genre: Historical Fiction

Pages: 355

Published: March 2019

Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid

Adaptation(s): Amazon Prime series, released in 2023

If you’ve been paying attention to new shows that have been released lately, then you’ve probably heard of DAISY JONES & THE SIX. Or, if TV shows aren’t your thing, you’ve probably still heard of the book.

I have had this on my shelf for a while now but it wasn’t hot on my TBR list until the show came out a couple of weeks ago. I wish I could say I always read the book before watching the movie, but that’s not the case 100% of the time. But, this was super easy to read first because I already had a copy of the book! No thoughts yet from me on the TV show since I’ve only seen the first episode so far.

Now, for my review of the book: This is written in a unique style as an interview between the “author” (book within a book, lol) all the members of the band, some of their family members, and their producers/manager(s). The quick back and forth between characters makes for a SUPER fast read. I really liked the characters, especially Camila and Karen and I thought TJR did a great job at creating realistic, well-rounded characters.

It’s definitely worth a read if you haven’t already! I’m excited to finish the show; it always fascinates me to see what changes are made in movie/show adaptations.

If you have read/watched, did you like the book or the show more?