“I think you have to have faith in people before they earn it. Otherwise it’s not faith, right?”

“But loving somebody isn’t perfection and good times and laughing and making love. Love is forgiveness and patience and faith and every once in a while, it’s a gut punch. That’s why it’s a dangerous thing, when you go loving the wrong person. When you love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. You have to be with someone that deserves your faith and you have to be deserving of someone else’s. It’s sacred.”

Hands down: this is the best audiobook I’ve ever listened to. This book is perfect for that format! This story is told in interview-style – lots of people telling you about their memories of their band from the 70s and it quickly flashes back and forth between the characters. In the audiobook, each character has its own narrator and they are perfect. I felt like I was really listening to Daisy Jones & the Six. In fact, I wasn’t sure 1) if some of these actors were actually the band members and not actors at all; and 2) if this band actually existed. I looked it up and learned that this is completely fictional, but Taylor Jenkins Reid really had me going for about 2/3 of the book!

I avoided this book for a long time because for some odd reason, I thought it was about Charles Manson. I have no idea where that came from! But have no fear: Charles Manson doesn’t appear in this book at all. It is full of sex, drugs, and rock & roll, which is totally not my thing, but it worked in this novel. I didn’t think that it was too graphic, but I still didn’t want to listen to it with my kids around.