It’s fictional-though Reid was inspired by Fleetwood Mac and others-but the band and the era are so fully realized you’ll think you’re reading a true story. In Daisy Jones & The Six, Taylor Jenkins Reid imagines an oral history of the band’s rise and fall. The book is a love story, too: not only of Daisy and Billy’s will-they-won’t-they romance, but also a sentimental appreciation for the era. Daisy is an up-and-coming young singer, and after her duet with Billy, the frontman of The Six, becomes a breakout hit, she joins the band full-time. This novel, framed as an oral history, charts the rise of a hard-partying, iconic band in the 1970s. Taylor Jenkins Reid’s fictional tell-all will rock you.
The enigmatic Daisy is bound for stardom-and likely to live on beyond the pages of this book.ĭecades after their sudden split, members of a rock band recall their rise to fame in the 1970s-and what wrong. This dreamy novel follows the rise and fall of an iconic band lead by the enigmatic Daisy, and it's full of a) sex, b) drugs, c) rock n' roll, and d) characters who you'll wish could leap out of the page and into your life.īackstage intrigue is the engine of Daisy Jones & The Six, Los Angeles novelist Taylor Jenkins Reid’s celebration of American mythmaking.
Taylor Jenkins Reid has written a stylish and propulsive if sometimes sentimental novel set against that backdrop, in the stadiums, studios and pool houses of late-1970s L.A…easily her most sophisticated and ambitious novel… In the end, that’s the most surprising gift of Daisy Jones & The Six – it’s a way to love the rock n roll of the 1970s, without apology, without cynicism, bell-bottoms and all.Ī deep dive into the best band you’ve never heard of. The characters were beautifully layered and complex.Daisy and the band captured my heart, and they’re sure to capture yours too. Taylor Jenkins Reid transported me into the magic of the 70’s music scene in a way I’ll never forget. I devoured Daisy Jones & The Six in a day, falling head over heels for it.
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