Daisy Jones and the Six: I Ain’t Rockin’ To This One

A gripping novel about the whirlwind rise of an iconic 1970s rock group and their beautiful lead singer, revealing the mystery behind their infamous break up.

Everyone knows Daisy Jones & The Six, but nobody knows the real reason why they 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 and 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.

Another band getting noticed is The Six, 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 the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.

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This. Was. So. Boring.

I’m sorry, I know I’m in the minority for this. I wanted to love it. I wanted to love it so much I pushed past the urge to DNF it after 3 hours into the audiobook. Alas, I’m just not rocking to the music (see what I did there 😉 ).

First of all, and the least egregious thing about this book, is that nothing happens. In fact, Daisy doesn’t even really play a big role for those first three hours. Hence me contemplating DNFing. I was sitting there, listening, wondering when the heck the titular character was actually going to do something of importance.

But even when she does finally enter the main storyline (if it could even be called that), still nothing happens. There are no major events. No dramatic downfall. It’s just a bunch of bland characters doing the most cliche rock n roll shit you can think of.

Speaking of those characters, I didn’t care about any of them. For a book with no plot, you’d expect to at least care a little bit about the characters. I mean, there’s entire cast of them. Yet, I found each one of them absolutely unbearable, and most of them even forgettable.

• Graham? He liked Karen, a lot. That is all I know about him.
• Karen? She was the least unbearable one, but I still found her so bland. Also felt like she was thrown in as a token independent woman type of character. Bleh.
• Eddie & Pete? Literally interchangeable to me. One was insignificant, one bitched a lot, but don’t remember which is which.
• Camila? She loved her family and had that super chill wife thing going on that also became annoying.
• Billy? Almost, ALMOST, as bad as Daisy.

And Daisy? Oh, she was absolutely god-awful. This is a bit spoiler-y, but I have to mention this because I feel like it really shows her character. View Spoiler »After being rejected by Billy (because he’s married, so why would she even go for him but that’s a whole other discussion), and after some shitty actions she finally had an “I want to get clean” moment. And who does she go to to ask for help? To, basically, be her sponsor? BILLY. That blew my fucking mind. Why would he EVER say yes to that? Why would she EVER ask that? Why would the author frame it as if it’s a reasonable request? I can’t. « Hide Spoiler

In summary, you basically have to listen to a lot of bland characters whine and complain while nothing big happens until it turns into a bad romance with no satisfying result, then it ends. Ugh. Actually, if one of them would have died it would have made this more interesting.

The only reason I bumped this up to two stars is for the performance of the audiobook narration. The cast is probably the only reason I enjoyed how this story is told (it’s like a documentary style interview). Otherwise, this would have been a DNF or 1 star review.

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