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litty_lydi 's review for:
Daisy Jones & The Six
by Taylor Jenkins Reid
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
f you want to read this book, I strongly recommend you go the audiobook route. The full cast helps immerse you and it simply feels like you're listening to a documentary.
Overall, I really enjoyed this, and although I wouldn't consider it a sad book I was still somehow crying at the end?! Power of Taylor Jenkins Reid, I guess.
I see this book as more of a character driven vs plot driven story, honestly not that much happens in the book, but instead it's more of a journey of following this 70s band to their rise and fall, and hearing the experiences from the various perspectives. Because of this there is a lot of "he-said, she-said" but given the context I didn't mind it.
Now moving on to the "issues" I have with the book, but putting those below the cut due to spoilers:
First off, let's talk about the elephant in the room, I have a hard time believing that Daisy and Billy did not sleep together. And I don't mean they should've had a full blown affair or anything. I just think that the fallout from that night would make so much more sense if they had sex. Take the same beats leading up to that moment, add in a passion/lust filled moment, and then still have it end the way it did. Billy choosing his family and that same great line:
Overall, I really enjoyed this, and although I wouldn't consider it a sad book I was still somehow crying at the end?! Power of Taylor Jenkins Reid, I guess.
I see this book as more of a character driven vs plot driven story, honestly not that much happens in the book, but instead it's more of a journey of following this 70s band to their rise and fall, and hearing the experiences from the various perspectives. Because of this there is a lot of "he-said, she-said" but given the context I didn't mind it.
Now moving on to the "issues" I have with the book, but putting those below the cut due to spoilers:
First off, let's talk about the elephant in the room, I have a hard time believing that Daisy and Billy did not sleep together. And I don't mean they should've had a full blown affair or anything. I just think that the fallout from that night would make so much more sense if they had sex. Take the same beats leading up to that moment, add in a passion/lust filled moment, and then still have it end the way it did. Billy choosing his family and that same great line:
“When you find that rare person who really knows who you are and they still don’t love you …
I was burning.”
and still getting the song Regret Me out of it. I think it would have hit that much harder. And also made the final conversation between Camila and Daisy that much more intense/important. I'm really hoping the TV series takes more of this route.
This kind of leads into my next biggest gripe, the "twist" that the narrator is Julia. If anything, this lends even more to my "conspiracy theory" that Daisy and Billy has something more explicit .. is he really going to sit there and tell his daughter, who loved her mother and adored Daisy Jones that he went beyond just loving her for even a small moment in time. Albeit, this twist also makes me think "wtf" in a couple spots given what is told to Julia about her father, etc.
Even more-so, the reveal makes me step back from the book and makes me focus too much on the "unreliable narrator" potential that this twist reveals. The entirety of the book Camila is hailed as this amazing person, which not doubting she was, but putting it in the context of the people telling the stories to this woman, who's mother recently died, makes me wonder how much was left out, or embellished for the sake of Julia's idealized memory of her mother.
All this to say, I think I would've preferred it if it was just a random doing the interview.
ANYWAYS did not mean to write an essay about that but here we are.
I'll re-emphasize, I did really like this book, and for once I'm actually looking forward to see how the TV series will embellish on this story more.