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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

55 reviews

heisiiri's review against another edition

adventurous emotional inspiring 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

4.0

I mean, what a story! The drama of a super famous 70s rock band is such an inherently interesting topic, and then you add the framing device of the story being told through interviews with the members? So fascinating! The way the interpersonal drama unfolds is so much fun to read. This is also a great book to listen to as an audio book if your version has different narrators for the different characters, because that truly brings the interviews alive. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Moderate: Toxic relationship

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Abortion, and War

Basically, this book has a lot of the stereotypical "rock star lifestyle" and people struggling with it, so drugs and alcohol are heavily present. Plus some stuff about what it's like to be a young woman in a world where a lot of men are willing to take advantage of her in multiple ways.

metalbeheaded99's review against another edition

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Drug abuse

Minor: Death, Abortion, and War

haileyeh's review against another edition

reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

You couldn’t pay me to care about these characters…

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Cursing, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Infidelity, Sexism, Abortion, and Pregnancy

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Death, Sexual content, Death of parent, Abandonment, and War

cdt96's review

funny reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Death of parent, Pregnancy, and Alcohol

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Alcoholism, Death, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Infidelity, Sexism, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Vomit, Abortion, Death of parent, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, Abandonment, Alcohol, Sexual harassment, War, and Injury/Injury detail

lilacfoxes's review against another edition

emotional inspiring medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Adult/minor relationship, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Pedophilia, and Self harm

Moderate: Eating disorder and Abortion

Minor: Suicidal thoughts and War

ibellis's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Addiction, Drug use, and Alcohol

Minor: Death, Sexual content, and War

katelynnelawson's review against another edition

emotional reflective 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

4.0

A slow read due to the formatting, the characters are memorable and the end, though abrupt and even anticlimactic, packed and emotional punch. I didn’t like how the lyrics were all at the end. I flipped back to refer to them often and by the time I finished the book didn’t care to read the ones I hadn’t read yet. TJR always writes memorable characters which is really what I come to books for.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Eating disorder, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, and Abortion

Minor: Death, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Pregnancy, and War

linneak's review against another edition

emotional inspiring sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, and Drug use

Moderate: Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, Misogyny, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Grief, Abortion, and Alcohol

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, and Injury/Injury detail

literarydumpling's review

emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I listened to the audiobook of this and didn't know anything about the book so I went in with zero expectations. It actually ended up being a really enjoyable listen!

The way the audiobook adapts the interview transcripts of the physical book is so clever with the use of incredibly talented narrators that make each character feel alive. I am not sure whether I would enjoy the physical book as much as the audiobook, but I would definitely recommend to give Daisy Jones and the Six a listen as the storyline and characters really lends itself to the audio format.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol

Moderate: Toxic relationship and Abortion

Minor: Death, Pregnancy, and War

taylormargaret's review against another edition

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.5

My first Taylor Jenkins Reid book. TJR writes this one as a script for a documentary of the band, so it’s only interview tapes. This makes it feel like the outline of a book, without the narrative and settings to back it up. TJR is clearly great at writing dialogue and just thought, “what if I don’t do anything else?” Why isn’t she writing plays? This can hardly be called a novel. I mean, I didn’t hate reading this, but it was hardly fleshed out and emotionally inviting. Besides, TJR has a problem which is that she thinks she can do the work of referencing the craziness of the 70s rock’n’roll scene with all the booze, sex and drugs without actually describing it for us. This makes it seem pretty boring and has you, as a reader, relying on what you might’ve seen in “Almost Famous” to give the work any kind of setting. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction and Alcoholism

Moderate: Death, Eating disorder, and Abortion

Minor: Grief, Pregnancy, Abandonment, and War