published: 2019
pages: 333 (351 with lyrics)
heard/read: 3/16-28/2019
rating: the ending made this book for me! ❤
book: 29 in 2019
Everyone knows DAISY JONES & THE SIX, but nobody knows the reason behind their 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 ’n’ 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.
Also getting noticed is The Six, a band 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 that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legends.
Also getting noticed is The Six, a band 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 that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legends.
MY THOUGHTS
SHORT VERSION
the ending is what made me love this book more than i thought i would overall.
ahhh! i have never loved an open ending like i do this one.
LONG VERSION
ahhhh!!!
i wrote the spoilers first because i was having a hard time articulating how and what i wanted to say about this book.
Admittedly, i wasn't too crazy to read this. i saw on IG that it was coming out and there was this huge hype on it but i wasn't buying into it. then release date got nearer and i thought "let me put this on hold at my library" thinking I'd be waiting for a few months before it got to me. low and behold, i think I'm one of the first few to get a brand new copy. i was surprised! (i also requested the audio version but that's going to be about 6 months before i get my turn. which is fine because I'd love to read along and experience this all over again.)
i started reading it and i was intrigued but for some reason still took my time with it. i think this is the only book i read in march (maybe I'm coming off my book high?) and i don't know why. i didn't not like it, i liked it. it just fell on me because i wouldn't make the time to read it and well, can't get shit done if you don't make the time for it, amiright?
AND THEN...they released the UK version AND OMG LOOK AT THAT COVER!!!!! 😍😍😍
i had to own it.
because it was due at the library at the end of the month (in march), iduno, i guess finishing it kicked into gear and i finished it with 4 days to spare....Even though i now had my own copy and could read at whatever pace i wanted 😑
....and honestly, especially because i own the book, i was thinking of shelving it and going through my other reads and then eventually coming back to it later. i have no idea what it was but I'm glad that i stuck it out.
this is all on me.
because once i got into it, i could not put it down.
i read it in my car, at my work in the parking lot, i read it in bed before going to sleep, i read it at Costco when i saw they were selling it there, i read it while waiting in line to get Costco gas, i read it when i was chillin' at my grama's and my mom was bugging us to go home. heck i even read a few sentences in between red lights. *cringe*
i could not get enough! i wanted to get to the end.
but i think for me it was because while it was a good read all along, it finally got amazing for me towards the end.
when shit hits the fan.
OMG!!!!!!!!!
the way it all ties together.
the reasoning behind the break up.
all of them.
everything.
everything ties up.
and the ending.
OMG that ending!!!!!!!!!
i usually hate open endings. but this one.
man.
this ending is the most beautiful thing ever.
i think its open to interpretation but i think its pretty obvious the way it's headed towards.
and just, the way it all comes together. what a fucking beautiful story.
because its so much more than JUST about the band.
its more than just Daisy and the Six.
more than just Billy and Daisy and Karen and Graham and Teddy & Warren, Pete & Eddie, Simone, Camila.
its about love & marriage and sacrifice and feeling and hurting and accepting the truth no matter the pain that it causes you and others. and so. much. more.
so much fucking more.
it all ties up so good.
so, so good.
so yea, this is another favorite.
it's still #2 for me next to The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo but goddamn is it good on its own. (actually no, now they both might be .5 each so they can each both hold a piece of #1 in my heart.)
not once did i think "this isn't like Evelyn and i wish it was."
I've already gone on too long and i don't want to take even longer so i'll end it here but i will say this:
i liked Billy with Camila.
i liked their dynamic and ultimately, i do believe she was good for him and maybe what he needed. but, i had a bit of a hard time with her. mostly at the end. no, not a hard time. i think it just broke my heart a little bit.
she knew the feeling. she knew what that pain was like. hell, i know what that fucking pain is like. and i think it was a bit unfair on her part. because here she was doing to Billy what was done to her. and why would you want that or want to do that to someone else?
but i do understand that:
a) this is a fictional story
b) i've never been married nor do i have kids to take into consideration so i can't really speak on that because there is much more at stake than i can see from my point of view.
c) it all transpired as it was supposed to to make the story be what it is. because had the end happened then, it would have all fallen apart in so many ways. and i think the ending as it is is so fucking beautiful. (assuming that the ending is that....well, i don't want to spoil it here for you.)
overall, i loved Camila. she had a clarity about her. and her views about life...she respected that not everyone is the same and that others have different views. she never once tried to force her views on anyone else. (well, except for the breakfast story that Karen talked about but...still...i mean real life things).
TJR is a freaking genius and i need to catch up on her other books and i will FOREVER read whatever she writes. this was another amazing one for me.
keep em coming.
thanks for reading!
SPOILERS
the reason that the band split was because:
1) Daisy and Billy had fallen in love with each other. it was taking its toll on both of them.
and Camila knew.
and she accepted it.
but she needed Daisy to leave the band because if Daisy was waiting for something to crack, it was going to be her. not Billy or her family.
she even says it: "Daisy, he loves you. You know that he loves you. I KNOW that he loves you. But he's not going to leave me."
Camila told Daisy all of this (and more) the morning-ish after that concert.
as soon as Daisy woke up she booked a flight and was never to be heard of again.
"NOW": Daisy went to Simone afterward, she went to rehab, got cleaned, adopted 2 sons and went on to do many a great things.
2) Karen and Graham were hooking up.
Graham wanted everything. home, kids, a life together; Karen.
Karen just wanted to play forever and have her own home in the woods and be alone. she never loved Graham as much as he loved her.
and then...a bit before they split, she got pregnant.
and she told Graham but she also told him she was going to abort. and he tried to convince her otherwise.
she still went through with it.
the night of that concert, she bumped into it and they got into a huge fight over it.
she was done.
"NOW":
Karen got her home in the woods and is living alone like she wanted.
Graham lives in Arizona with his wife and has his own hot sauce (lol). but he acknowledges that Karen is the one that got away. she has no regrets about it by the looks of it.
3) Eddie was over Billy's shit. he basically hated him. and Billy saying that it was done was the final straw for him (although, i mean ironically, it was the final straw cause what could he do?)
"NOW":
he's a producer and finally calling all the shots.
4) Pete always wanted out no matter what the outcome of the band was. it was always just sort of temporary for him. he'd had enough.
"NOW":
lives in Arizona and has his own turf company and is happy being married to Jenny who was there since the beginning.
4) Warren was probably the most chill of them out. he was okay with anything. he was okay staying and okay having it end.
"NOW":
married to Lisa signing her boobs here and there from time to time. lols (prob my fave ending.)
5) Billy couldn't record an album without Teddy and he couldn't sing without Daisy but he couldn't be near her so that was done. he just wanted to focus on being sober and being with his family and Camila.
"NOW":
signed a contract with his label company and now writes songs for pop stars. lived a good life after he left the band with Camila and their kids.
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The author of this "book", "interview" whatever you want to call it was Julia.
Billy and Camila's first daughter.
Camila passes away from Lupus complications at the age of 63.
it ends with a letter from Camila to her daughters asking them to give their father time after her death and then get him & Daisy back together.
the love story that was meant to be can finally start.
i guess Julia doing this is a way to start that off.
ahhh!!!
i love this book!!!
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