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Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
1.0
this has spoilers btw.
several elements reminded be of the seven husbands of evelyn hugo (the interviews, the true story of famous people years after the main events being told happened finally seeing the light of day) but i didn't completely like this book and i have a few reasons.
the plot didn't have anything special to it. in an inverview/ documentary format, the members of a rock band from the 70s narrate their journey since the moment the group was formed until its disbandment. and that was enough to make me curious because i love the 70s and i also read somewhere that the author got inspired by fleetwood mac and i love fleetwood mac. but i finished reading this and it wasn't all that memorable. it didn't make me feel something, it wasn't amazing like evelyn hugo. i can't help but compare them, given they have elements in common and both stories come from the same author.
and the characters. i'm a very character-driven reader and i think some fault of me not really enjoying this book lays in them. they were all so annoying i'm SORRY but it's true. it was so difficult to me to connect with them. sometimes i sort of liked billy and daisy, sometimes i hated them, other times i found them insufferable because they thought one thing and did the opposite and it was very frustrating. the other characters i just don't care about because they revolved around billy and daisy, they were complements to their story, which is kind of the point? i mean, the group does start to fall apart because billy and daisy were the center of everything and the other members were... standing there while they took every single decision i guess. i felt that all of them were unecessary, the author could have removed 3 or 4 members of the band and it wouldn't have made a difference. the story would've been the same.
and finally because this ain't a college essay and i don't want to be writing all day: i didn't like the way love or relationships were represented at all. one of the main focuses on this book is the tumultuous relationship between billy and daisy (even if billy is in a relationship with another woman but i'll get to that), the both of them dealing with their addictions at the same time they're trying to acomplish their dreams of being famous and making good music. ok.
but billy meets and marries camila, a woman he met before daisy joined the band and they got worldwide famous. he always describes camila as his soulmate, the woman he loves, the woman he wants to be with for the rest of his life. but she is a woman he doesn't deserve to have by his side because he is a terrible man (and he's right but i do give it to him that he was going through a lot at some point). but camila has faith in him, she gets on 'i can fix him mode'. whatever.
and then daisy comes along. daisy gets billy even if they are introduced as being 'enemies' at the beginning: they understand each other because they're both addicts, they know what it is like being one and they work amazingly well together when making music and writing lyrics. they have chemistry and at one point in the plot said chemistry becomes non-platonic. and it felt SO out of character to me, because for the first part of the book we've seen billy trying to get better because he truly loves camila and he wants to become 'the man of her dreams'. so... why the hell does he fall in love with daisy? i'm sorry but i don't get it. the author really tries to justify this, give a reason as to why the billy-daisy-camila love triangle of some sort happens, she tries to explain it through billy and his feelings but i just don't get it. it's dumb. how am i supposed to believe anything billy feels, says or promises when he just keeps fucking up like this? again, that is kind of the point of this character, but he annoyed me so much.
and related to all of this... the cheating. girl. first of all, cheating is a BIG red flag for me and it's something i would NEVER justify, so now you know where my biggest issue with the book lays.
billy cheated on his girlfriend camila (several times) even before he met daisy. he was on a dark place at the moment it happened, and okay i may be able to turn a blind eye on that even if i was irritated by it.
camila forgives him because she loves him even if he cheated on her while she was pregnant (yeah, what the fuck). okay. billy tries to be better, he promises to never let camila down again because he made her suffer so much. okay. and then daisy jones shows up and he throws all his 'development' out the window... ? billy and daisy fall in love with each other, even if billy repeats on every single page of this book just how much he loves his wife and his family and how he would always choose them over anything in the world but then you see, as a reader, how he gets closer to daisy and things escalate from there. and i have to agree with daisy that it's fucking weird how all the six's songs were about camila. every fucking song billy wrote was like an apology to his wife for being a shitty husband, he was obsessed and then he made daisy sing them with him while they were developing feelings for each other. UM.
and if i couldn't understand billy's reasoning as to why he fell in love with daisy but he still couldn't leave his wife and just end everything, i understood camila's even less. camila suffers a lot but refuses to leave this man because she loves him, she believes he's going to do the right thing at the end of the day and put their family first. and the whole "i trust you so much i can tolerate you having secrets"? yeah..... no. i can understand a relationship not being perfect, sometimes having problems of communication or doubts when meeting another person, but i just can't believe that cheating can be justified because only 'the love you feel for me is mine and that is the thing i wan't' or some shit like that i swear they say. it was ridiculous and i disliked it so much. it wasn't believable to me that billy and camila could be happy after knowing that he fell in love with another woman.
and the ending, the camila letter thing? am i supposed to fill in the gaps and imagine that camila told billy to get in touch with daisy, after all those years, to maybe be together for the years they have left? what. no.
anyway! this could've been a lot better.
several elements reminded be of the seven husbands of evelyn hugo (the interviews, the true story of famous people years after the main events being told happened finally seeing the light of day) but i didn't completely like this book and i have a few reasons.
the plot didn't have anything special to it. in an inverview/ documentary format, the members of a rock band from the 70s narrate their journey since the moment the group was formed until its disbandment. and that was enough to make me curious because i love the 70s and i also read somewhere that the author got inspired by fleetwood mac and i love fleetwood mac. but i finished reading this and it wasn't all that memorable. it didn't make me feel something, it wasn't amazing like evelyn hugo. i can't help but compare them, given they have elements in common and both stories come from the same author.
and the characters. i'm a very character-driven reader and i think some fault of me not really enjoying this book lays in them. they were all so annoying i'm SORRY but it's true. it was so difficult to me to connect with them. sometimes i sort of liked billy and daisy, sometimes i hated them, other times i found them insufferable because they thought one thing and did the opposite and it was very frustrating. the other characters i just don't care about because they revolved around billy and daisy, they were complements to their story, which is kind of the point? i mean, the group does start to fall apart because billy and daisy were the center of everything and the other members were... standing there while they took every single decision i guess. i felt that all of them were unecessary, the author could have removed 3 or 4 members of the band and it wouldn't have made a difference. the story would've been the same.
and finally because this ain't a college essay and i don't want to be writing all day: i didn't like the way love or relationships were represented at all. one of the main focuses on this book is the tumultuous relationship between billy and daisy (even if billy is in a relationship with another woman but i'll get to that), the both of them dealing with their addictions at the same time they're trying to acomplish their dreams of being famous and making good music. ok.
but billy meets and marries camila, a woman he met before daisy joined the band and they got worldwide famous. he always describes camila as his soulmate, the woman he loves, the woman he wants to be with for the rest of his life. but she is a woman he doesn't deserve to have by his side because he is a terrible man (and he's right but i do give it to him that he was going through a lot at some point). but camila has faith in him, she gets on 'i can fix him mode'. whatever.
and then daisy comes along. daisy gets billy even if they are introduced as being 'enemies' at the beginning: they understand each other because they're both addicts, they know what it is like being one and they work amazingly well together when making music and writing lyrics. they have chemistry and at one point in the plot said chemistry becomes non-platonic. and it felt SO out of character to me, because for the first part of the book we've seen billy trying to get better because he truly loves camila and he wants to become 'the man of her dreams'. so... why the hell does he fall in love with daisy? i'm sorry but i don't get it. the author really tries to justify this, give a reason as to why the billy-daisy-camila love triangle of some sort happens, she tries to explain it through billy and his feelings but i just don't get it. it's dumb. how am i supposed to believe anything billy feels, says or promises when he just keeps fucking up like this? again, that is kind of the point of this character, but he annoyed me so much.
and related to all of this... the cheating. girl. first of all, cheating is a BIG red flag for me and it's something i would NEVER justify, so now you know where my biggest issue with the book lays.
billy cheated on his girlfriend camila (several times) even before he met daisy. he was on a dark place at the moment it happened, and okay i may be able to turn a blind eye on that even if i was irritated by it.
camila forgives him because she loves him even if he cheated on her while she was pregnant (yeah, what the fuck). okay. billy tries to be better, he promises to never let camila down again because he made her suffer so much. okay. and then daisy jones shows up and he throws all his 'development' out the window... ? billy and daisy fall in love with each other, even if billy repeats on every single page of this book just how much he loves his wife and his family and how he would always choose them over anything in the world but then you see, as a reader, how he gets closer to daisy and things escalate from there. and i have to agree with daisy that it's fucking weird how all the six's songs were about camila. every fucking song billy wrote was like an apology to his wife for being a shitty husband, he was obsessed and then he made daisy sing them with him while they were developing feelings for each other. UM.
and if i couldn't understand billy's reasoning as to why he fell in love with daisy but he still couldn't leave his wife and just end everything, i understood camila's even less. camila suffers a lot but refuses to leave this man because she loves him, she believes he's going to do the right thing at the end of the day and put their family first. and the whole "i trust you so much i can tolerate you having secrets"? yeah..... no. i can understand a relationship not being perfect, sometimes having problems of communication or doubts when meeting another person, but i just can't believe that cheating can be justified because only 'the love you feel for me is mine and that is the thing i wan't' or some shit like that i swear they say. it was ridiculous and i disliked it so much. it wasn't believable to me that billy and camila could be happy after knowing that he fell in love with another woman.
and the ending, the camila letter thing? am i supposed to fill in the gaps and imagine that camila told billy to get in touch with daisy, after all those years, to maybe be together for the years they have left? what. no.
anyway! this could've been a lot better.