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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
5.0
I was very kindly given an E-ARC of this book through Netgalley, Random House UK and Cornerstone.
Holy. Fuck. Get on the hype train, my friends.
I was so scared that this book was going to suck. Honestly, I've been burned by some of my favourite authors over the last few months and absolutely hating their new releases. Jodi Picoult, Markus Zusak, Sally Thorne- I was worried that I would be adding another author to that list. But thank the good Lord that once again, Taylor Jenkins Reid has woven a masterpiece edged with rough, emotive prose that sucks you in from the first handful of pages.
This book is BRILLIANT. Reading like an episode of Behind The Music, this fictional biography of the short lived group Daisy Jones & The Six, a rock-blues band who wrote some of the definitive music of the late 70s is cinematic, eloquent and written with such intensity that you feel as though you're living with those characters. You're drinking with Daisy at the Chateau Marmont, you're performing on stadium stages or SNL with the band, or listening to late night mixes with Billy. ALSO my surname featured significantly in this book because it's three of the main characters' surname, which was disconcerting but SO AWESOME.
I can see how people might dislike this book. It's not a typically written story and there are a lot of characters floating around. But its enchanting, pulling you into the story of this fictional band and the crazy things they did through such a short amount of time. It'll really appeal to people who have always found an emotional connectivity point with music, especially people who have been in bands or performed or just loved music before. You can tell that Jenkins Reid has just immersed herself in this culture and written from the soul. I think she's found a real niche writing character study-esque books about uniquely incredible people like Daisy Jones or Evelyn Hugo, and I hope that she keeps writing them, because she is really a master of human psychology.
This book is just as good, if not better, than The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I am so, so grateful that I got an advance copy of this book and I can't wait for Daisy Jones to be unleashed into the world.
'Daisy Jones & The Six' written by Taylor Jenkins Reid and published by Random House UK/Cornerstone will be released on March 7th 2019.
Holy. Fuck. Get on the hype train, my friends.
I was so scared that this book was going to suck. Honestly, I've been burned by some of my favourite authors over the last few months and absolutely hating their new releases. Jodi Picoult, Markus Zusak, Sally Thorne- I was worried that I would be adding another author to that list. But thank the good Lord that once again, Taylor Jenkins Reid has woven a masterpiece edged with rough, emotive prose that sucks you in from the first handful of pages.
This book is BRILLIANT. Reading like an episode of Behind The Music, this fictional biography of the short lived group Daisy Jones & The Six, a rock-blues band who wrote some of the definitive music of the late 70s is cinematic, eloquent and written with such intensity that you feel as though you're living with those characters. You're drinking with Daisy at the Chateau Marmont, you're performing on stadium stages or SNL with the band, or listening to late night mixes with Billy. ALSO my surname featured significantly in this book because it's three of the main characters' surname, which was disconcerting but SO AWESOME.
I can see how people might dislike this book. It's not a typically written story and there are a lot of characters floating around. But its enchanting, pulling you into the story of this fictional band and the crazy things they did through such a short amount of time. It'll really appeal to people who have always found an emotional connectivity point with music, especially people who have been in bands or performed or just loved music before. You can tell that Jenkins Reid has just immersed herself in this culture and written from the soul. I think she's found a real niche writing character study-esque books about uniquely incredible people like Daisy Jones or Evelyn Hugo, and I hope that she keeps writing them, because she is really a master of human psychology.
This book is just as good, if not better, than The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. I am so, so grateful that I got an advance copy of this book and I can't wait for Daisy Jones to be unleashed into the world.
'Daisy Jones & The Six' written by Taylor Jenkins Reid and published by Random House UK/Cornerstone will be released on March 7th 2019.