A quest to find the lost story on the 70's most famous rock band: Daisy Jones and The Six.
Taylor Jenkins Reid was committed to portray the rise of the 70's rock band Daisy Jones & and The Six and to complete the puzzle of their mysterious split during their Chicago tour. We follow what it means to grow into an artist with everything it entails, and the discovery of one's identity along the way as characters try to stir away from falling through the cracks. This book lays out through individual interviews the experiences of all band members, crafting an interesting and dynamic structure.
The main attraction is Daisy Jones, desperate to hold people's interest at the beginning and worried later to write her own songs and being heard amidst all the noise. Her search is beyond being beautiful, she is after a life's purpose. An absent family environment leads her to seek attention elsewhere and she achieves that goal by traversing a lonely journey. She discovers that she is to be more than a man's muse, she is the somebody that must take center stage.
“We love broken, beautiful people. And it doesn’t get much more obviously broken and more classically beautiful than Daisy Jones”.
Daisy gets incorporated into a band called The Six, whose members include Billy Dunne who enjoys pulling all the strings, his brother Graham, keyboardist Karen, Eddie Loving and Pete. I would say the major factor in this novel is decision. The characters must decide if they enter or leave the band, if they fall into each other's arms or choose to keep a safe distance, if they are going all into the rock and roll world or they decide to take responsibilities for their actions and how these decisions affect others.
It does not seem very different to other band stories we've heard before but I do point out that Taylor Jenkins Reid has devised the book in a way for readers to access the truth from different perspectives. The mechanism of deconstructing reality into pieces and putting them back together will engage readers.
All the band members appear at a crossroads as we follow their stories. Daisy is between facing love in the face and escaping, Billy Dunne is encountered with his passion for music and the self-destruction that comes within those circles. In the background, we have the depiction of the late sixties and seventies accompanying the mood.
An entertaining read, the novel taps at finding our own sources of inspiration, what the process of digging deep into our souls is like and how we face what we are most afraid of.
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