Daisy Jones & The Six

Book review: Daisy Jones & The Six

          My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐

" 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.

~ From Goodreads ~

I thought that this book was about a real band which existed in the '70s! I went in search of it before I read the book. It is not! That's what made this book more enticing to me. 

While I was listening to it, "Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody" was running through my mind. I guess watching that movie has helped me understand this book a bit better because I could somewhat visualize this interview happening and also the events mentioned therein. It tells the story of a Rock and Roll band in the 1970s through the interview snippets of each member of the group. 

I couldn't put this book down. I keep listening to it (Yes, yet another audiobook from the library app) at every free moment and completed it in a day or so. The characters are so well created and described. The emotions are raw and real. The love is aching and the break up is heart-wrenching. It's about music, mature love, family, relationships, and the agony of first love. 

I am not ashamed to say that this one made me cry. The lyrics of the songs mentioned in the story are given at the back of the book. This I know because I got the ebook version of it also from the library and was reading it as the audiobook was playing and I wasn't doing some chore at the time. This is my new favorite thing to do now. And because this is an Interview based book, the ebook helped a lot to keep track of the character voice changes, before you get used to the different voices. 

I highly recommend this one, if you are interested in music. And even if you are not!

And it was perfect for the following Reading Prompts too: 

Popsugar Reading Challenge 2021: A book featuring 3 generations (grandparent, parent, child)