Daisy Jones & The Six: A Novel

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4.3
79 reviews
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400
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • OVER TWO MILLION COPIES SOLD! A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous breakup—from the author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising, and Carrie Soto Is Back

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“An explosive, dynamite, down-and-dirty look at a fictional rock band told in an interview style that gives it irresistible surface energy.”—Elin Hilderbrand

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Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their split at the absolute height of their popularity . . . until now.

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.

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4.3
79 reviews
Pennie Morgan
March 6, 2019
I enjoyed this book and it is not what I typically lean towards reading. This read as more of an interview/documentary of a '60/'70 era rock band and the pitfalls of being in a band in that time. We get to know Daisy Jones and all the band members and are there for their rise to fame and again on their way down. I read this one over the weekend during a snow storm with music playing in the background, definitely the way to go! I'm not going to tell you anything more about this one other than it is a page turner and if you are looking for something just a little different give it a try, you will not be disappointed. **Received this ARC for review from the publisher via NetGalley**
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Heather Keevican
October 6, 2021
The book was okay, but Daisy was the most obnoxious, hateable character I've ever read. Her "redemption" doesn't matter at all. I feel badly for the rest of the characters, even with their own egos.
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Nati
March 11, 2023
I absolutely loved this book. it was a fun easy read and I loved how it was set in the 70's. There were some things that I didn't like, like some characters had annoying scenes but other than that I highly recommend reading it. ❤️
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About the author

Taylor Jenkins Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of eight novels, including Carrie Soto Is Back, Malibu Rising, Daisy Jones & The Six, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their daughter.

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