My brother had told me to watch the show “Daisy Jones & The Six” on Prime Video. He caught me on a night that I had nothing to do and a time when I had no new shows to watch other than my comfort shows I re-watch a million times. 

Singer Daisy Jones joins The Six, and the lead singer of The Six hates every minute of it because he must share the spotlight. The two must write songs together and compose an album called “Aurora” which turns out to be a major success. The more they spend time together, the more they fall in love, despite Billy being married. 

The story follows a band 20 years later after their famous breakup in a documentary style. The show jumps back and forth between present day interviewing of the bandmembers telling their story up until the breakup, and flashbacks from years ago.

This format was similar while reading the book. It was basically reading a transcript of this interview and getting told bits and pieces of the full story by the seven band members. I enjoyed the interview/documentary style of writing that this book was in because it made for a very quick read.

Another pro to this style was the fact that the same story was being told by multiple people. At some points, it was confusing, and I had to re-read some sentences because the story was not being told the same way from everyone. I liked this though because it was very realistic to how people who have experienced the same event will then tell the same story in a different way. For instance, Billy would be in denial of his feelings for Daisy and say that he never felt anything for her. We know that is not true after hearing the contradictory perspectives from Daisy herself, his wife, and the other band members.

I enjoyed the internal conflict that we got to see with Billy’s character. I was rooting for him to be a changed man. His actions showed him trying to be better by resisting the temptations, whether that be Daisy or drugs or alcohol.

Teddy Price, their record-label producer, helps the band’s rise to fame throughout both the show and the novel. He is a mentor-like figure for Billy and even helps him through addiction by taking him to rehab. Billy looks up to him like he is a musical wizard because he always knows what is best for the band. In the novel, Teddy dies from a heart attack which sends the band into a spiral. 

Camila asks Daisy to leave the band, so that her marriage can survive. And in the show, we never got that because Billy runs after Camila ultimately “quitting” the band to save them. I liked the shows portrayal of this better because I found it more necessary for Billy to ultimately make that final decision to leave and choose what is best for him, rather than Camila asking Daisy. 

The show adaptation does a really good job with staying true to the novel and making it accurate. There were minor discrepancies that I found while reading. The show even produced an actual album “Aurora” that is worth listening to on Spotify.

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