2.5/5

Okay, hear me out before you hate on me. The ending was phenomenal and the narrator and everything about that, but honestly, the ending couldn’t make up for the boring 200 first pages. I’m also a fairly hard marker for books so it may also be why.

Set in the 90s, rock n’ roll band, The Six, enters one of the greatest eras of albums when Daisy Jones walks in. The band welcomes her and writes a new album when drama in the band erupts. Cheating, drugs, rehab, affairs: the raw aspects of rock n’ roll come into play.

I loved how Reid made this book into such a sweet and harmonious ending in contrast to the theme of hard rock throughout the book. It left me in shock. The narrator also shocked me at the end with that plot twist and made me rethink the entire book over. 

I just really was bothered with the writing style, but at some point throughout the book (hoping it is earlier for you than for me) you adapt to the writing style and read the book like a documentary-style interview. I was talking with someone about the book and I really believed this book was like a paper version of the documentary on the Queen band, with all the drama involved with the documentary along with their highest moments and lowest.

If you love watching documentaries on pop culture, this book is perfect. If you love rock n’ roll, you will also love this book. But being someone who doesn’t really like those, this book wasn’t the greatest book I’ve read. I picked up this book hoping for some romance and plot setting, and the plot part was pretty settled and in some ways the romance too, but oh was this pretty raw and twisted. 

It was like reading poetry, but you mix the order of that poem and you add passion and convolution. But I still can’t grasp the ending. The ending definitely carried.