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Daisy Jones & The Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid

50 reviews

bashsbooks's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective fast-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

Daisy Jones & the Six is another great book by Taylor Jenkins Reid. If I were going to nitpick, I would say her style of an 11th hour child-related plot twist only really works the first time (and I read Evelyn Hugo before I got StoryGraph), but that is a minor thing. The ending also feels a little abrupt. But I love the level of detail, and the inclusion of the lyrics from the album in the back. I love the messy tension between Billy and Daisy. I love fictionalized versions of things we tend to use to share the truth, like a documentary or like an academic paper (House of Leaves ftw), and this obviously delivered in that realm. I wish I had listened to it as audiobook, but by the time I realized that was the best format, I wanted to read the book too much to wait for that version.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Toxic relationship, Infidelity, Addiction, Drug use, Alcoholism, Toxic friendship, Misogyny, Cursing, Drug abuse, Alcohol, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion, Death, Sexual content, Pregnancy, Violence, Sexual harassment, Medical content, Domestic abuse, Body shaming, Self harm, and Vomit

Minor: Suicidal thoughts, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

lizgriffinwords's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad 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

4.25

Very different from what I usually read, but definitely lived up to the hype. Highly recommend the full-cast audiobook.

Content warning: themes/temptation of cheating and infidelity, frequent drug and alcohol abuse, alcoholism, abusive/abandoning parents

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Toxic friendship, Infidelity, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content, Adult/minor relationship, and Child abuse

josoko's review against another edition

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Addiction

Moderate: Infidelity, Pregnancy, Sexual harassment, Abortion, and Terminal illness

enchantedelfie's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

• 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

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Physical abuse, Abortion, Addiction, Alcohol, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Infidelity, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Vomit

Minor: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Sexual assault, Rape, Mental illness, Death of parent, Car accident, Sexual violence, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, and Pregnancy

bethantg's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Addiction, Abortion, Alcoholism, Pregnancy, and Drug use

Moderate: Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Eating disorder, Toxic relationship, and Grief

Minor: Death

hannasandmann's review against another edition

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

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

5.0

I went into this book not knowing that the book was fiction and only found out when I started researching the characters because I wanted to see photographs of them. 
A message wasn't missing from the book either, which could easily have happened. 
I just wanted to fill a reading gap and unexpectedly stumbled upon this. So great!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Abortion and Pregnancy

Minor: Sexual harassment

kellerbean's review against another edition

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

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Infidelity

Minor: Abortion, Blood, Death, and Sexual harassment

marbrihern's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful sad tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Drug abuse, and Addiction

Moderate: Pregnancy and Sexism

Minor: Abortion and Sexual harassment

parchment_and_papyrus's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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

4.5

Wow. That’s the first thing I want to say, just wow. 

Daisy Jones and the Six is the story of the spectacular rise and equally magnificent fall of one of the most iconic bands of the 1970s. The book chronicles their respective journey through the small-town circuits, hard graft, rising fame, tours, and the process of making their award-winning album.  And it answers the one question on everyone’s mind, why did they throw it all in at the blink of an eye? 

First off, this book is not your traditional novel. It’s not set out as you would expect. Throw out your usual narrative and say hello to a chronicle of interviews. Wait, don’t let that put you off! It works. TJR orders each fictional interview so that accounts from each person present gives you all the detail you will ever need and the bonus, all the perspectives you could ever want. She even goes as far as giving slightly differing accounts, giving it such a realistic quality that I had to google if the band existed! 

It’s a bit of a slow burn to start with so give it some time. There are some strong foundations that she must build. But once you get into the second half you feel like you’re on a runaway train and it’s never going to stop. There will be very little that will be more important than reading that next chapter in that book, I promise you! 

The character development is out of this world. You cry for them, hope for them, plead with them, hate them, love them. It’s spectacular. I’ve read very few books that make you want two people to be together so much and so little. That you wish they could have this amazing relationship but knowing they would destroy each other. 

There are just so many things that I wish I could gush about so here’s a quick low down. There are wonderful moments in the book shining a light on the human condition. There is an amazing passage about what it’s like to love someone with an addiction. How surrounding yourself with the right people can have such a profound effect on the outcomes of your life. That both life as a mother and life as a childless woman are equally valid and fulfilling existences. That a stranger’s kindness can save you in moments of doubt. 

I know it’s an amazing book when it makes me laugh out loud or brings a tear to my eye and this book did the latter. There is a conversation between two characters who love the same man, and that conversation has such a theme of sisterhood and love that it ends up being both their salvations. 

It’s the slow start that is the only thing stopping me awarding it five stars. If you haven’t already read it, please make it your next read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Toxic relationship, Addiction, Drug abuse, and Abortion

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Abandonment, and Infidelity

namzuru's review against another edition

adventurous emotional reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

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

4.5

This book was really something. I loved that is was written as fake oral history. That is such an interesting concept that I have never seen before. And I think it was so well done. When I reading this book, I felt like I was looking back on those memories with them. I’m remembering the emotions of everyone in the room that day. I especially felt that when they went on SNL I felt like I was one of the people watching it live.

I loved that you could never fully trust one character on what happened (especially Daisy), the story had a different feel depending on who was telling it. I thought that was really well done. It was a lot of fun to read. 

I cant decide who was my favourite character, it had to either be Karen or Camila. Karen was just so cool i loved her but Camila added this dimension to the book that i loved, she was also just so cool. 


Favourite quotes: 
- "Just Daisy singing and me on the keys. That’s it. Just two bitches playing rock ‘n’ roll." - Karen
-  “i think in order to be happy like i’m happy, you need different things. and i want you to have whatever those things are.” - Camila

taylor swift songs that embody this book:
- august (daisy)
- midnight rain (karen and graham)

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Sexual harassment, Sexism, Abortion, and Misogyny