Review of Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Taylor Jenkins Reid offers the story of a band, its making, and its unmaking, through interviews with various characters that illuminate the mysterious breakup as well as the characters' complexities, love, conflict, creative inspiration, and heartbreak.

“You have these lines you won’t cross. But then you cross them....

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.”

In Daisy Jones & the Six, Reid offers a fictionalized account (written as fictional interviews) of the meteoric rise of a 1970s band, their mesmerizing lead singer Daisy, the group's complicated interpersonal conflicts, and the band's mysterious breakup, which broke hearts around the world.

I thought the interview format might possibly get tiresome, but Reid skillfully builds the story, the complex relationships, and the pushes and pulls of the characters’ lives. The structure allowed for fascinating point of view shifts, subtleties, and humor.

Daisy Jones & the Six explores multiple layers of love and heartbreak, all against a fantastic backdrop of rock and roll and the bonds and stresses of a band and a relentlessly grueling tour life.

I adored Camila and her love and faith and outlook on life, and I loved this book.

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Taylor Jenkins Reid is also the author of Carrie Soto Is Back, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and other books.

I mentioned Daisy Jones & the Six in the Greedy Reading List Six Rockin' Stories about Bands and Music.

The story has been adapted into one season of a television series.