Daisy Jones and The Six

by Taylor Jenkins Reid

[ibeforem]

When the buzz started over this book, I didn't really think it was for me. But then a few of my friends raved about the audiobook and we decided to make it our audiobook book club pick for April and I dove in.

This is a situation where if I had read the book in text form, it would probably be 4-stars, but the audiobook production really pushes it over to 5-star territory. This is the story of a band called The Six, lead by Billy Dunne, and Daisy Jones, the talented but chaotic young woman who helps push the band to super-stardom. The story covers the beginnings of the band and of Daisy's career and goes through the break-up of the band a few years later. You get the points of view of Daisy and most of the band, as well as some peripheral characters, so you get to see the same situations from different angles. There's a lot of drug use and arguments and relationship strife, both romantic and otherwise, but there's also a lot here about art and making art and how people come together to make something beautiful and successful, sometimes in spite of themselves.

It's a multi-actor cast, which is helpful and adds a lot of character to the story. By halfway through I could generally tell who was talking just by the voice, but I did tend to get Warren and Graham confused. "Karen" is performed by Judy Greer, which is an absolute treat.

There is just one major problem with the audiobook. I WANT TO HEAR THE MUSIC! I really wish this album really existed so I could hear it. But it looks like Amazon is making a series out of this, and I will definitely be watching.