Stephanie Sullivan: Review - Daisy Jones & The Six

April 21, 2023

TITLE: Daisy Jones & The Six

RATING: ★★★★

Summary (from Goodreads): 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 ’n’ 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.

REVIEW: This is one of those situations where I wish I’d read the book before watching the TV series. Don’t get me wrong - it’s a great book - but in all honesty I prefer the TV series. (It’s on Amazon Prime, just in case you didn’t know). I won’t get into the plot differences between the book and show because I don’t want to give away any spoilers. Let’s just say there’s a lot of drama, passion, angst, great music, drugs, and rock-n-roll. What’s not to love? Taylor Jenkins Reid is one of my favorite authors, and her writing truly shines in this story. The book and the TV series are both amazing in their own way, and I would gladly recommend them to everyone.