Reviews

Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

sanarnia's review against another edition

challenging emotional hopeful reflective tense fast-paced

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

4.75

This book is an emotional roller coaster. It has absolutely scarred me. You know, you think your life is bad and your problems don't make sense but then you read shit like this and you see just how fucked up the world can be, how much worse or how much easier stuff can be for people. And at the end of the day, it's all forgotten. So who does it matter for anyways? You just do what you do until you don't and life changes. Music makes people by bringing in emotions and emotions destroy people eventually. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism and Drug use

Minor: Abortion

Spoiler : they all leave. That's how brutal it is. They exist and then they dont. That's it.

sorumn's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

4.5

lucy__'s review against another edition

5.0

I loved it! The style is a bit unusual, it's written as a transcript of a documentary, but I could hear all of the characters talking through their parts. I love that this style allows all the characters to be slightly unreliable due to the length of time or wanting to paint themselves in a certain light.

There's quite a few issues handled throughout the story and they're all told so believably. Nothing is neat and perfect, but it doesn't need to be. There's something really lovely about how this book explores types of love, and glorifies stability over the kind of risky, dramatic love that a lot of stories seem to favour.

The lyrics at the end are beautiful, I'd love to hear what they'd sound like as actual songs (especially "A Hope Like You")

marialschez's review against another edition

4.0

Me ha gustado bastante y me ha parecido original la forma de estar escrito. He terminado llorando.

gwynneandbearit's review against another edition

5.0

Listen to the audiobook! It’s amazing! So well written, read, directed. Perfect.

voicewithn's review against another edition

5.0

No me caen bien por completo ninguno de los personajes.
10/10

suzr's review against another edition

dark emotional sad 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

3.75

ellbsrh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny reflective fast-paced

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

3.5

mfox614's review against another edition

3.0

I didn’t dislike this book, but I’m not head over heels about it either. It was good, I enjoyed it, I even shed a couple tears. But I also don’t connect to the rock and roll scene, so that drama was lost on me. This book is an oral history of a rock band, which is a completely new genre and format for me, but it was so well done. I love a beautifully effortless twist, a question maybe you asked yourself at the beginning but forgot about by the third page, just to have the answer come out of no where and smack you in the face towards the end. I love the exploration of memory, how we all experience things differently and therefore remember them differently. One person’s truth may not be the same as someone else’s. “The stories people tell themselves about themselves.”

aegolling249's review against another edition

Not a fan of a cast of voices; didn’t really care about the characters