Daisy Jones and the Six (Spoiler Free) Review

By Julianne Giordano, 2023

Published 1/26/22

You know when you’re reading a book and you’re only a couple pages in and you think to yourself, “this might be the best book I’ve ever read”? Well, that’s the thought I had when I started this book. Now I read a lot, I read twenty-seven books last year, and only had this thought about a couple of them. Sure, you can think a book is good while you’re reading it, but only a few really stand out like this one did for me.

Taylor Jenkins Reid, the author of Daisy Jones & The Six, is a phenomenal author. Her books captivate you in a way that almost no other author is able to do. I read another one of her books back in September, called The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. That book changed my life, giving me a new perspective on a variety of topics that I won’t dive into in this article. It was never boring, was riddled with messages, and had quotes that I thought were the most beautiful things I had ever read in my entire life. Therefore, I had high expectations for this book, and I didn’t think it would be better than the previous one.

I don’t know if I could’ve been more wrong. In my opinion, Daisy Jones & The Six was even better than The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, not only in the writing style but also in the messages and heartbreaking themes of the story. The book is written in interview format, where the author of the fictional book interviewed the members of the fictional band “Daisy Jones & The Six”, as well as other people who were involved in their lives at the time. If you liked the fictional-author-writing-a-book style of writing in Evelyn Hugo, then you’ll love the writing style of this book.

Like Evelyn Hugo, the story felt extremely realistic, and I again found myself googling celebrities mentioned in the book only to find out that they aren’t real. It is also realistic in the way that there are memory gaps between the characters, one reciting a story in one way while another says it went in a completely different direction. You also get multiple accounts of the same story, so you can see what each character was feeling and thinking at that moment.

Onto the plot, the story follows the band throughout their journey to stardom. It starts out with young Daisy Jones and the original band “The Six," and guides you through the story of how someone figured out that, combined, Daisy Jones and “The Six'' would be a showstopping band. It takes place in the seventies and contains all the decade-related themes of feminism, drugs, and freedom.

I don’t want to say anymore in fear of spoiling the book, so I will end this by saying that you definitely need to go check this book out. And if you love a book with phenomenal quotes, this book is riddled with them.