I finished this book but it was quite a hard slog. I just didn’t really see the point in it? In my opinion it would have worked better in a standard format instead of the interview format.

I adore this author, and really enjoyed The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in particular, so was excited to read her new novel Daisy Jones and the Six. The narrative choice is immediately interesting and curious: the story unfolds in a standard music interview format. This feels new, and fun, but at times it can also be distancing. I love that the author took the chance though - it's certainly different and makes this story stand out. The result as a reader is you often feel closer to some characters than others; my favourite was Simone, Daisy's best friend. Thank you so much to the publisher and Netgalley for letting me read, I'd recommend it to fans of Taylor Jenkins Reid, music fans, and the film Almost Famous.

One of my fave books of the year.

Why don't I listen to people when they tell me I need to read something? I kept seeing review after review telling me how good this was but despite having an ARC sitting on my kindle waiting to be read I kept putting it off (given I did exactly the same thing with The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo I really should have known Reid wouldn't let me down). The thing is, this is just not the kind of book I typically go for. If someone told me I'd be giving a book set in the 70's music scene 5 stars I wouldn't have believed them but this just worked for me and I loved it.

There may not be much in the way of a story, they form a band, write some songs, have some arguments and take a lot of drugs, and it often doesn't really feel like it's going anywhere but I honestly couldn't have cared less. There's just something so compelling about these characters that I could quite happily read about them sitting around having a chat. They are so complex and well rounded that it's difficult not to feel drawn to them and I came away from this story wishing they were real.

The format of this novel is a little unusual, something that I think readers will either love or find incredibly irritating. It's written as a series of interviews with the members of the band, their friends and family and others who were around at the time but jumps around from character to character to get each of their perspectives on events in a chronological order. It reads very much like one of those documentaries you see about big famous bands where facts and key events are interspersed with the recollections of those involved (I love those programmes).

It is a little choppy at times, is a lot more tell than show, and took me a few pages to get used to it (I can understand why a lot of people say the audio's worth getting) but it suited me. I love books that are predominantly dialogue, they just work for me, so while I felt a little distanced from both the characters and the moments, I still had a very real sense of who they were. It all felt incredibly real and completely believable, so much so that yes I did Google to check it was fictional. It was also wonderful (and sometimes funny) to get contrasting views of the same events.

I'm not sure I would really say I could relate to the characters or that I even really liked them or connected to them but they did fascinate me. You could argue some are a little stereotyped, there's the messed up rich girl (Daisy), the egotistical and controlling lead singer (Billy), the sleazeball (I'm naming no names here) and the hot headed band member who doesn't feel he's being allowed to shine, but I found it incredibly easy to imagine each and every one.

Some voices and stories I did prefer to others, Karen for example as keyboard player is very much in the background as far as the band goes but had for me one of the most powerful stories and was incredibly likeable. I also liked Warren the drummer, who's clearly incredibly talented but is so relaxed and unbothered by all of the drama, and Graham, Billy's brother who seems happy to let his brother bask in the limelight.

It's actually Billy and Daisy who are probably the least likeable of all. Both are battling addiction problems, are selfish, egotistical and think the world revolves around them but I will admit there's something very charismatic about both of them and put them together and it's downright electric. There's so much tension and chemistry between them it's impossible not to be captivated by them and I loved the way the dynamic between them shifted and changed.

The whole story is however enthralling and I loved every single second of reading it. Reid's writing is magical and for me the only bad thing was the ending (and only because it was over).

As someone who loves rock music (and saw my favourite band 35 times) this book spoke to me. We learn about Daisy Jones And The Six, a legendary 1970's rock band through a series of interviews with the main players. I wasn't sure if I would like this unconventional way of storytelling, but it was perfect.

Even though the book is full of debauchery, everything you'd expect, sex, drugs and rock and roll, it is full of likeable characters. The magnetic Daisy Jones, the conflicted Billy Dunne. It captures a moment in time, the rise of a band, the making of an album, the sold out shows. It's so expertly written that you forget you are reading about a fictional band. I want to hop in a time machine, see these guys play and buy all the merchandise. A book sprinkled with stardust.

Yes! This is a wild ride full of fun and rock and roll! Think Almost Famous in book form but with a kick-ass, flawed diva as its main character. This book is one not to be read but to be experienced!

Written in the style of a biopic interview, the book follows the tale of a globally successful band’s 1970s heyday a few decades on.

With the obligatory sex, drugs and rock n roll, the band reminded me of Fleetwood Mac and the love/hate relationship between Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham.

In fact, this was such a convincing read, with characters coming through lots in clear in their own voices and through the memories of their band mates, I forgot it was fiction on a few occasions.

Like any good book, there’s a small twist at the end.

Very enjoyable, entertaining and a heady glimpse into a hedonistic time.

I really enjoyed this book - the format was compelling, believable characters and story arc, yes I loved it!

Daisy Jones and The Six had a massive hit of an album in the late 1970s, performed a sold-out tour and then one night they split up and no-one ever knew why. Until now, when an expose book is released about the real events of Daisy Jones joining The Six and the events that led the previously close-knit band to splinter apart.

Wow, I loved this book and absolutely flew through it. I could not put it down until I had finished every single page, and I was so drawn into the story, it felt like reality crashed all around me when I finally finished and came back to myself and this world. I was also devastated when I had to remind myself that Daisy Jones and The Six are not a real band, and their music does not exist.

I loved that even though this book does not follow a traditional narrative, story-telling style, the story shaped itself so well. Places weren’t always described really well but I could still see them in my mind and I was felt like I was there, witnessing the rock n’ roll history take place.

There are lots of compelling characters in this book, three of them being the female characters - Daisy Jones, Karen and Camilla. All three characters were really different but they each owned themselves and their life choices so well, I respected and loved every single one of them. Daisy Jones and Karen in particular had a way of owning their sexuality and sensuality in completely different but badass ways that blew me away. There were a lot of great quotes in this book about not just being someone in a man’s story but making your own and Karen and Daisy, and Camilla, did just that. I loved it.

There’s so many different kind of chemistry levels in this book as well it blew me away. From creative chemistry to sexual chemistry, it was fantastic to read and I was so drawn to all the different kind of relationships all the characters had with each other and figuring out how it would all end up.

I loved that because the ‘author’ of the book is interviewing different characters at different times about the same events, there’s actually a lot of contradictions from story to story. And far from irritating me, I loved it and I loved trying to decide who i thought was telling the truth of the matter.

Taylor Jenkins Reid is also really good at adding little twists to stories, that don’t really change the outlook of the story but just give an exciting edge and makes the reader gasp a little bit.

I just loved this from start to finish and even though the end had a little bit of an How I Met Your Mother vibe, I still liked how it all ended up. And honestly if TJR’s future books don’t have little Evelyn Hugo movies or DJATS music references/easter eggs I’ll be really disappointed because so much opportunity!

Yes, I maybe TJR biggest fan, so this review may be a tad bias. However this was the first book I have ever read completely written in interview format. and it was captivating and part of me wishes I was still in school and able to use it for a project in social studies.
It was captivating to see the same story but from multiple points of view, the differing of peoples memories and interpretations was fascinating.
I developed such complicated for the characters which i think brilliant example of just how brilliant Taylor Jenkins Reid's writing is.
Not quite as great as 7 Husbands but still an incredible piece of writing.

I was sent a copy of Daisy Jones and The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid to read and review by NetGalley.
This novel is written like a magazine article with each of the characters giving their own personal take on events regarding the emergence and subsequent rise of the band Daisy Jones and The Six. It took me a while to get comfortable with having an entire fictional book written in this way but even though there was some - possibly avoidable - repetition, in the end I quite enjoyed it. The author seemed to have a reasonable amount of knowledge of the music industry, the accompanying drug scene and all that entails but it did all seem rather romanticized - everything was rather clean and tidy somehow. I can’t say that I thought it was ‘mesmeric’ or ‘a pop-culture sensation’ as others have deemed it but it was pleasingly different, hence the four stars.

The Six are a six-piece band who are on the cusp of fame. They've worked hard and they've got an image and a solid soft-rock sound. Daisy Jones is the neglected wild-child who wants to sing but is being stymied by her label. When it is suggested that The Six use a female vocalist on a track Daisy is used but when a Rolling Stone journalist suggests that Daisy should become part of the band, six become seven and lives change.
Lots of reviews mention the fact that The Six seems to be loosely based on stories about Fleetwood Mac and there's definitely that creative and sexual tension vibe throughout but I was happier reading it as straight fiction. Obviously because it's set in the 1970s there is a lot of free love and drugs but there's also a strong narrative about two musicians strongly attracted to each other but one knowing what is the better future and one taking longer to realise. Reid's writing is very accessible and, as with previous books, appears like a slightly superior bonkbuster yet there is still that slightly more interesting note. None of the characters are particularly likeable but the writing is strong and the plot linear.

When I started reading Daisy Jones & The Six, I was confused. It’s written really well that I genuinely thought it was about a real band (Google quickly put me straight).
I enjoyed the ups and downs you go on with each character. The only thing that I wasn’t sure about was the reveal at the end... would Billy Dunne and Daisy Jones really have said all of that to that person?

Oh my goodness let's sit down and chat so that I can tell you all about this book that I am in love with called Daisy Jones and the Six. Honestly. I have never ever read a book quite like this one.

“You have these lines you won’t cross. But then you cross them. And suddenly you possess the very dangerous information that you can break the rule and the world won’t instantly come to an end. You’ve taken a big, black, bold line and you’ve made it a little bit gray. And now every time you cross it again, it just gets grayer and grayer until one day you look around and you think, There was a line here once, I think.”

Wow.

It's a couple of weeks since I finished reading and I am still thinking about this book because it was so much fun.

Here's the thing. Taylor Jenkins Reid has written a lot - and I'm aware of her but I've never read any of her work so when I read the blurb for this, and saw it was by her I was super keen to get involved. I am also super glad I did. I loved it.

I LOVED IT.

So the deal, if you haven't read this book already is this: Daisy Jones and the Six are a fictional band from the 1970's. Think....Fleetwood Mac maybe, or The Rolling Stones with a female lead? Thing big. Think a big 70's rock band at the height of their fame. Imagine that all coming crashing down. Then, imagine that same band, perhaps some 30 years later doing a Behind the Music type tv show where all the members and their friends etc are interviewed separately so you get all these conflicting ideas about what their fame looked like and how it all fell apart. That is what this book is.

It's SO CLEVER.

It's written as a transcript - between an interviewer and whoever they're interviewing at the time so it moves back and forth between the members of the band and their manager and their significant others and it slowly builds up this picture of this group of people thrust into the limelight and it is extraordinary. It's kind of odd, because the way the story is told means it's all dialogue - you get very little description, you get nothing actually, other than the words of whoever is talking at the time and it does take a little bit of adapting to but once you do oh my God. I was lost I was totally caught up in the story of these people and this band and the real life sex, drugs and rock'n'roll lifestyle they were living. It's intoxicating. You follow them through their career, and, for a big part of the book they're working on this album so you get to know how all the songs came to be and then at the end of the book all the song lyrics are there and I am still dizzy with excitement.

“We write songs about women. Women will crush you, you know. I suppose everybody hurts everybody, but women always seem to get back up. You ever notice that? Women are always still standing.”

It touches on big themes: substance abuse features heavily if that's a trigger for you, as does abortion and infidelity, but it's also strong and unabashedly feminist and the characterisation is spectacular and the relationships these people have with each other are so complex and so raw. It's not dark a and heavy and brooding book even though it has a couple of dark themes. It's just....it's what a good book looks like, it's clever and original and refreshing and can you tell I loved it.

I'm not going to lie: I am such a fangirl for this fictional band. Give me all the band t-shirts, give me the merchandise, let me spend my money on the most expensive tickets to their tour because YOU KNOW I WOULD. I am such a groupie.

It's being made into a mini series apparently and WOW, this book was made to be adapted and I cannot wait to see what they do with it, I can't wait to meet Daisy, and Billy. I cannot wait to hear those songs.

This book is special, people, and I have already bought two copies to give as gifts.

Daisy Jones and the six is a cleverly written book that reads like a true story. You could believe that the band really existed and that they were the big thing in the 70s.
The story cleverly charts the rise of the band and its purpose is to explain why the split at the height of their fame.
Despite all her faults I found myself rooting for Daisy and wanting her to get clean.
A gripping read that clearly portrays rock and roll in the 70s

All the heart eyes for Taylor Jenkins Reid with this amazing book!
At first I thought I'd struggle with the format, I mean it's not often I read a book in interview style and I thought maybe this would make the characters feel distant, but I couldn't be more wrong.
I was literally addicted to reading this book it's raw, Edgy and actually really fast paced.
Many thanks to NetGalley and randomHouse for sending me an arc!

This was such a wild ride and I enjoyed every minute of it. Told in interview format, this is the story of the band Daisy Jones and the Six - how they got together and why they spectacularly fell apart. The format of this makes this an incredibly quick read and it allows each character to have their own unique voice. My personal favourite band member was Warren; he had a really chilled attitude and some of his sections made me genuinely laugh out loud. As you would expect for a rock biography dealing with a band in the seventies, there are a lot of depictions of drug use and self abuse and Daisy Jones is painfully damaged, raw and self destructive. There were times when I just wanted to shake some of the band members and there was a sense that everything was slightly over the top in terms of behaviour and actions, but ultimately, there were some fantastic moments in this book and some incredibly quotable lines. With this book, Taylor Jenkins Reid has cemented herself as one of the most interesting contemporary authors and I will definitely be reading whatever she comes up with next.
I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review.

There’s no other way to describe it: I inhaled this book. I started it on Sunday night at 8pm, and by 11pm I was three-quarters of the way through it, and only stopped reading (reluctantly) because I knew I had to wake up early the next morning.

Daisy Jones & The Six is a fictional story written like fact. It’s written as an oral history of the hottest band of the Seventies that tries to get to the bottom of why they split when they were at the height of their fame. I wasn’t sure I’d like the style, but as I’d found with the Seven Wives of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid is a brilliant writer, and I was completely immersed in the wild ride of the band’s whirlwind success.

There’s a reason everyone’s talking about Daisy Jones & The Six as if it’s the ‘book of the year” – or as if the band is real and we can stream their songs on Spotify. In the end, I read it cover to cover in less than 24 hours, and I’m still thinking about it. Believe the hype: this is a book I wholeheartedly recommend.

I wasn’t so sure at first but Daisy Jones and The Six slowly won me over. I loved ‘Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo’ and was expecting something.. similar? But not this! It took me a while to come to terms that the whole book was written in the interview form (omitting actual questions) which flows really well if I am honest. The idea is not original, it often read like a real biography of Fleetwood Mac, Led Zeppelin etc. but somehow, SOMEHOW Reid convinced me to love the book! I couldn’t help but instantly be drawn to Daisy, Billy and the chemistry between them. It felt like I was there when they were recording their album together. The only thing that’s missing in this book is.that fictional album! A fun, easy and entertaining read.

Absolutely love this book! You need to read this!!!!

The characters, storyline, the way its been written as an oral history, amazing.

Daisy is a gifted but overlooked teenager in LA. She wants the fame & fortune, but has always been given everything on a plate and getting the attention is easy, but from the right people - how does she do that?

Billy and his friends have a band, The Six - they are good, really good. And on the way to hitting it big, with a few stumbles along the way, based in the '70s sex and drugs seem to be the main hurdles to overcome - Billy heads off to rehab when The Sixes tour ends and his wife gives birth.

Daisy scores it big and gets a record deal- Runner Records - also the home of The Six - a co-lab happens and that's it Stardom beckons.

The high & lows occur, and they all remember a different story, I adore the characters, I raced through this book, but didn't want it to end - I miss them now, they are my friends Daisy & Billy - I want more!

I went to TJR book signing in Bath and she is AWESOME - Such a talent !

I have now gone and bought Taylor's previous book THe Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - which I am now enjoying too.

When I started #DaisyJonesAndTheSix the style of writing didn’t really appeal to me (it’s written as a transcript of an interview with all the members of the band) but I was so wrong, it’s the perfect way to tell this story,

You are pulled into the seventies and sex drugs rock n roll, the memories of the band are slightly different which was funny. I fell in love/despair with Daisy, annoyance at the tyrannical Billy, admiration for his wife Camila, respect for Karen...and felt like I was part of their lives on the road and in the studio.

I wholeheartedly recommend this book, and can’t wait to see its adaption into a series. To actually hear the music will be amazing.

Thanks to #NetGalley and the publisher for my free advance copy in return for an unbiased review.