Daisy Jones & the Six Review

Rating: 4/5

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 ’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.

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I had heard such praise for this book and I loved TJR’s other book, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. So I was excited to finally pick this one up, to see if it lived up to the hype.

I don’t usually mention the books I’ve gotten through as audiobook, but I wanted to share that I did with this one, because this was absolutely amazing! I loved listening to this as an audiobook, as it was a fully casted audiobook, meaning each character had a unique narrator, even those with just a few lines. It made for such an entertaining book and I think listening to this definitely made this more enjoyable.

I know this book has also been turned into a show, but I went into this still haven’t watched it, but I can’t wait to watch it now! I want to see how well it compares to the book.

I loved how real this book felt. It’s written in a manner that feels like it’s a real documentary type book. With snippets of interviews that come together to tell the story of the rise and fall of the artist, Daisy Jones and the band, The Six. So hearing the full cast in the audiobook really added to this documentary style feel.

It’s a very emotional story of the things that the musicians go through to achieve fame in the 70s. The drugs, the sex, the drama. It was interesting to follow these musicians navigate this world and I have no doubt that it reflects true stories for some as well.

The only part I didn’t quite love was the ending. Which was similarly how I felt for the ending of Evelyn Hugo. For Daisy Jones, there was a certain way I expected things to go and I was surprised when it didn’t. Instead I found the ending to be abrupt in a way. Things just sort of ended and it like a, “nope, we’re done.” I didn’t love it. The play out a different way instead felt a bit flat to me. 

But despite the ending, I still found this to be a beautifully written story! I highly recommend it for anyone who enjoys books set around musicians and historical fiction set in the 70s!