The design and UX isn't done, Rob and Abbie, okkurrrr! đ
linneak's review against another edition
- 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
Graphic: Drug use, Addiction, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Toxic relationship, Abortion, Sexual content, Alcohol, Misogyny, Alcoholism, Cursing, Death, and Grief
Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Pregnancy, Fire/Fire injury, War, Adult/minor relationship, and Injury/Injury detail
jamiejanae_6's review against another edition
- 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
3.5
Graphic: Addiction, Gaslighting, Infidelity, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, Alcohol, Drug use, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic friendship
mymylight52's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
Graphic: Drug use, Alcohol, and Addiction
Moderate: Sexual content
Minor: Injury/Injury detail and Blood
paulwesterberg's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
1.75
Simone: . . . This was a girl that hadn't ever released a single piece of work. No album, no single. But she was in the magazines in photos with rock stars. Everybody loved her.
the oral history genre is really difficult even for historians to master. and the key part of building an oral history is to accrue hours and hours and hours of content, and then to go back and slash through it all; kill your darlings. you canât necessarily do that with a fiction novel, without maybe feeling like youâre wasting a whole lot of time.
daisy jones & the six fell flat for me in large part because of how dishonest i perceived it to be to the craft of oral history. none of the conflicts felt real, few of the characters felt real, everything felt so contained in a way that real life rarely is. it feels unfair to critique a work of fiction for feeling like exactly that, but it was incredibly difficult for me to suspend my disbelief and read this as an oral history. but that's the challenge you take on by choosing such a distinct format for your story. i think i could've enjoyed this novel a lot more if it didn't mimic the oral history.
furthermore, moving beyond the key fact that none of the characters felt like real peopleâor, worse, like cardboard cutouts of real life musiciansâtaylor jenkins reid's greatest weakness as an author to me has always been her pacing. i noticed it in the seven husbands of evelyn hugo, and oh boy, did i notice it here; it was grotesque, at times. it's much harder to cover up any flaws in your pacing when your book is so hinged on its organization.
unfortunately, this book just wasn't it for me. i didn't like daisy, and the way i was told so many times that i should; i didn't like billy, and how he felt entirely one dimensional; in fact, i only liked karen, and sometimes eddie, i think. and if there was supposed to be a plot twist, color me unimpressedâan oral history is not necessarily a plot-oriented form for telling your story, is all i have to say on that front.
sigh. i wonder if the series is any better.
Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use
Moderate: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Abortion, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Injury/Injury detail, Death, and Blood
bookcaptivated's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Alcohol
Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship
Minor: Blood, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, Toxic friendship, Abandonment, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Death, Grief, and Self harm
scmiller's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Enjoyed the narrative technique of the novel â characters recounting events in an interview, engaging in dialogue with the interviewer.Â
I was impressed with how Jenkins Reidâs wrote her charactersâ dialogue so conversationally. It was convincing and effortless.Â
I liked the stark discrepancies and contradictions between characters when recounting events. They were all unreliable in that way and I like how the story leaves the truth unclear.Â
I have a love/hate relationship with novels that are about music. Itâs the same dissatisfaction I feel when watching cooking shows. You can describe it and show it to me all you want but itâs not in my mouth.Â
I consumed this novel via audiobook and really loved that there was a full cast. It was like I was listening to a play on the radio. It was so emotive and artistically done. Arguably one of the best audiobook narrations Iâve heard.Â
I found the ending of the band sudden. We all knew it was coming but yet I still found the way it was written anticlimactic and incomplete somehow, and not in a satisfying literary way.
I found the attempt at actually writing the bandâs hit song âHoneycombâ and playing it at the end of the audiobook embarrassing??? You canât write a novel and paint a picture about how extraordinary and talented and huge this band was and then expose my ears to whatever that was and expect me to say, yes, people definitely would have gone crazy over this song. It was cringey.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Abandonment, Misogyny, Sexism, Emotional abuse, Drug use, Addiction, Drug abuse, Sexual harassment, Alcohol, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, and Toxic relationship
Moderate: Death, Terminal illness, Pedophilia, Gaslighting, Pregnancy, Sexual content, Eating disorder, Death of parent, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, War, and Grief
quinn24's review against another edition
- 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
4.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Drug abuse, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Drug use, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Abortion, Cursing, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Vomit
Minor: Death, Blood, and Chronic illness
tilde_c_s's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug use
Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Cursing, Toxic relationship, Mental illness, and Grief
Minor: Pregnancy and Misogyny
sstrawberry_fieldss's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Alcohol, Alcoholism, Addiction, Cursing, Drug use, and Drug abuse
Moderate: Death, Death of parent, Cancer, Injury/Injury detail, Blood, and Fire/Fire injury
Minor: Abortion and Pregnancy
bmf223's review against another edition
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Drug use, and Alcoholism
Moderate: Abortion, Alcohol, and Cursing
Minor: Death of parent, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, and Violence