Althea ☾'s Reviews > Daisy Jones & The Six

I'M STILL SOBBINGGG AND I'VE READ THIS 4 TIMES

me: "there are so many books on my TBR"
me:

4th Read: Dec 14-16, 2020
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All the metaphors, the double meanings... there is just so many things to discuss and interpret. Plus as a musician there are too many aspects that resonated within me.

It took me my 4th read to realize that January LaVoy is one of the narrators and it's official: she is really is my favorite narrator at this point.

"We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn't get anymore broken and classically beautiful than Daisy Jones."

3rd Read: Aug 28-29, 2020
this is just so beautiful, even the third time around. such a powerful story that i won't get tired of.

the timelessness and the fact that i can't believe these aren't real people gahhh + the bonus track at the end of the audiobook is everythinggg!!

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else’s muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.”

2nd Read: Jun 30-Jul 1, 2019

”Life is about who is holding your hand and, I think, whose hand you commit to holding.”

FORMAT READ: Audiobook
SIMILAR VIBES: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
READ FOR: themes that are written so well… the nostalgia… the satisfaction
GENERAL PLOT: How a 70s rock band rose to fame and why they broke up at the peak of their career.
READING LEVEL: Level 2-3 out of 5

--Buddy Re-Read with Marilou Paru--

OVERALL: 5/5
Ohmy the second time I read this did not dampen the emotional wreck that I was. Maybe it’s because I’m a musician as well but everything about this book just hits home for me.

"Music is never about music. If it was, we'd be writing songs about guitars."

In case you did not know and I never mentioned it before: this book is about commitment most of all but also about knowing what you want and what you are willing to do for the life you strive for. It’s about love and family and WOW….

*crowd surfs while screaming and crying*



I also noticed more the little differences of how each character tells the same story from their own perspectives. There was also a little tidbit of info that I completely failed to put together the first time I read this so that was a nice little surprise. It was all a very subtle way of portraying how different everyone can be. It comes to show what different people notice and pay attention to distinct things depending on what they have gone through in their own lives or their own circumstances. I appreciated the subtlety and the attention that TJR put to details in the writing.

"I don't expect anything to be perfect. But things don't have to be perfect to be strong."

Just a quick chat about Camila and Simone because I think that in the end… they were the real people that saved Billy and Daisy from turmoil. READ THIS SECTION ONLY IF YOU HAVE FINISHED THE BOOK:

(view spoiler)[Don’t get me wrong, Billy and Daisy were it for me. If there is such a thing as soulmates, I really believe that was what Billy and Daisy were to each other. But what this book taught me was that sometimes we don’t end up with the people that we want the most, the ones that are most like us. We end up with the people we need in our lives and that was what Camila was for Billy. There was a part that Karen was talking about how people don’t end up with the person that they are most like. People end up with people that are the missing part of themselves. And that was Camila and Billy.

CAMILA DUNNE PEOPLE. My goodness <3

oh gosh SIMONE! She wasn’t very prominent in this story as most of the other characters were but the scene where she was talking about the stoplight thing to Daisy over the phone was 1 out of 2 times I cried in this book. It made me so emotional because she is just a great friend to Daisy. She cared about Daisy when no one else did and sometimes that’s all we need. A good friend that will be there when we need them to be. (hide spoiler)]

”Don’t count yourself out this early, []. You’re all sorts of things you don’t even know yet.”

There’s nothing else for me to say that I haven’t already XD but I cannot wait to hear these songs in the series adaptation :”)

I mean, I already felt like I was listening to a movie with the audiobook. And l also didn’t realize that there was a bonus track of instrumentals for Honeycomb at the end of the audiobook AND HOLY I AM LIVING.

Will I ever get over this book? NEVER.

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PLOT: ★★★★★
WRITING STYLE: ★★★★★
WORLD BUILDING: ★★★★★
CHARACTERS: ★★★★★
THEMES: ★★★★★
PACING: ★★★★★
PAGE TURNER: ★★★★★

LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO NOT BE RE-READING THE BOOKS YOU LOVE

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1st Read: May 24-May 26 2019

"But the only reason people thought I had everything is because I had all the things you can see.
I had none of the things you can’t."

FORMAT READ: Audiobook

I LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS BOOK

PLOT:
Everything about the pacing of this story was perfect to me. It appealed to my reading speed and I never thought that it was going too fast or too slow. Listening to it definitely helped me focus on the story more that I would have if I just read it.

The fact that it was written in an interview style was great for the narrative rather than shifting perspectives. It allowed me to get sucked in to what each of the characters were experiencing at different moment and for some reason it felt like I was experiencing it in real-time. It's like I was right there with them.

I liked reading about the musical aspect as I am a musician myself and I do not think there are not many books that talk about in-depth the life of musicians. It was like having an inside peek on how bands start, how they begin, their own musically-related struggles, the hours or recordings, etc. and it was nice to have some little parts where I could relate to them.

It was nice to see how the smallest details resulted to the bigger pictures.

WRITING STYLE:
Very well-written. Everything just seemed to flow seamlessly together.

CHARACTERS:
Taylor Jenkins Reid is a master at creating characters you wish were real... or at some point you actually thought were real.

I was so in love with every single character and even though it was confusing at first to get used to the narrative, it helped that the audiobook is by A FULL CAST. The different voices helped me distinguish the characters. By the end of the book, I felt like I actually knew each of them and that I lived their life with them as well.

I love me a character-driven story and this is one of the good ones. Just like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, TJR created Daisy Jones as not the perfect protagonist/antagonist/whatever but you cannot help but love her and feel for her anyway. The same goes with every other member of The Six. I was in love. I was crying. My heart ached and it swelled.

All of their relationships were written so well and realistically that I swear they exist somewhere.

"things don’t have to be perfect to be strong."

OVERALL:
Ultimately, this book is about chasing your dreams (no matter what it is) and what is worth losing or keeping them. It is about loyalty and trust.

"And I liked that. The idea that just by being me, I was doing all right."

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