Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

This seemed a fun book and I was in the mood for something I could read on a long train journey. It was a quick, entertaining reading – even though it’s narrated in quite an interesting way. Basically, it’s written in the form of interviews and statements made by people who belonged to the fictional rock band from the title. This American band became extremely famous in the 1970s and is loosely based on Fleetwood Mac. This formatting threw me off at the beginning but I soon got into it and I think that, thanks to it, the book is certainly quite pacy.

One of the things that I didn’t like (subjectively) was how Daisy Jones (the band’s female lead) was depicted from the beginning. She’s from a rich but emotionally detached family, and she’sbasically born gorgeous (she’s described as beautiful as a girl, as a teenager, and as a woman, no matter how much alcohol she drinks and how many drugs she does). She’s also incredibly talented music-wise. And everyone loves her. But she’s also kind of broken inside because it’s so hard to be perceived ‘only’ as a beautiful girl… I mean yes, but also, give me a break. I’m so tired of female characters that have beauty as their primary characteristic.