Book Review - Daisy Jones and the Six

From Goodreads - Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

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 and 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.

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My Thoughts - I almost held off on reading this one because I was afraid it was *too* hyped and my expectations might be *too* high. But then I read about the Fleetwood Mac inspiration and I knew I had to read it ASAP. I'm so glad I did. This book is amazing. I couldn't stop thinking about it every time I was forced to put the book down.

All of the characters in this are so great - detailed, engaging, and people you can't get enough of. Billy and Daisy are obviously the main focus, but I adored Karen and Camila just as much. You really feel like you're in the room, on the stage, sitting in the studio with all of them and it's so much fun to take all of their stories and put them together to see how everyone saw the same event differently.

The way the songs are described made me wish there was an accompanying soundtrack. The lines that you get scattered throughout the book will have you running to look up Fleetwood Mac songs just to soothe the need for some classic 70s rock.

I wasn't sure I'd like this type of format, since I've never read anything like it, but after a few pages it felt pretty natural and I was able to really get into the story.

I can't recommend this one enough. Pick it up now.