Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

on


Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock ’n’ roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.

Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road.

Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.
---------------------
First line:
Daisy Jones was born in 1951 and grew up in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California.
---------------------
Source:
Audiobook
---------------------
Rating:
5 Platinum Albums out of 5
---------------------
This was my first audiobook that I've listened to that wasn't a book I had previously read. And, wow, I am blown away by this book, these characters, these narrators. I love it. Told in interview style with all the members of the band plus some supporting characters, audiobook format is perfect. It really gave the characters a lot of personality and brought the "interviews" to life in a way I'm not sure would have been as easily achieved just reading the print book. These narrators were phenomenal in their storytelling. Taylor Jenkins Reid has created another emotional read, where we as the reader come to love our characters not just in spite of their flaws, but because of their flaws. I am definitely eagerly awaiting to hear what Reid will release next.

I am so excited to watch the tv series to see how they brought these characters to life! But seriously, this was a great introduction to audio books and I definitely think everybody should read it!



Comments

Post a Comment