Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins ReidMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Though it's not Taylor Jenkins Reid's first book, this one, a well-fabricated rock history piece, couldn't help but capture my notice of her for the first time. Reading a lot of other reviews for it - with the common refrain being that the book was so well-fabricated, in fact, that it was easy to forget that Daisy Jones & The Six were never a real band - I really had no choice but to jump into this book as quickly as I could. The fictional history of this band reads like what Fleetwood Mac might've been if they hit it big with Rumours and then let their infighting and dysfunction break them up early, and for good. Plus a little dash of Janis Joplin for good measure, with Daisy Jones (though I can't help but think of her as a fictionalized Stevie Nicks) being a strong, self-assured, creative woman. She's literate as hell, and even throws in quite a bit of 2019 sensibility even as far back as her childhood (like, when she proudly talks about having gotten an F on a school paper for pointing out that Columbus did NOT, in fact, discover America.) With this book in mind, I'm for sure going to look into Reid's previous works as well - this one's too much evidence of a strong talent to ignore.
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