Roadtrip novel set across California -Daisy Jones and the Six

Submitted: 6th March 2019

A roadtrip of a musical journey by Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the cover to the blurb, this novel has a groovy 1970s vibe to it! It’s the story of a band which will seem so real that’ll you”ll have to look them up on Google to check that they’re not.

A band so famous that their shock split in 1979 would have broken the internet had the internet existed back then.

This is the novel of that journey, the demise of it, and an insight into what it means to be in a band, caught up in the music of the day..

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What a rock and roll read this was!

Clever too as the style of writing is in the form of transcripts and interviews and the odd song lyric to reveal a journey in more ways than one. This is the journey of a band formed and fed in Los Angeles and the various band members who go on the road and tell their story.

The reader is definitely taken along for the ride. IT’s a tale of drugs, sex and rock and roll of course but it’s the dynamics between the characters, the ego,s the ambition and more which really …if you excuse the pun,..sings.

Daisy Jones is your typical teenager at first, sneaking into clubs and sleeping with rock stars. She does all this to get to her one goal – to be a singer. When she meets Billy Dunne, history is made. As I started to get further in to this tale, I had to keep checking the band was indeed fictional as the mix of history and legend is very compelling and utterly convincing. Life on the road in a band sounds idyllic one minute and totally terrifying the next, but that’s what compelling about the whole story. You know it’s the journey that’s going to be the key as we already know the ending, but it;s the version of the story that we get that is going to going to be hard to decipher.

It’s psychedelic, compelling, fascinating and draws you in with a brilliant writing style and commentary feel to it all. You feel like one of the band so from the word go, you are on that journey with them. And the characters are all so different and well developed.

Unique, memorable and a hit in the making.