Daisy Jones & The Six: An Audiobook Review

I know people always say this, and usually, because it’s true.  The book is better.  I enjoyed the show, but some of its choices made the characters seem dirtier than the book. So much so, that it took the book a while to make me see them differently.  It’s worth getting to know each band member again, to see their nuanced depth. Daisy Jones and the Six is a story about a band that broke up, but it’s also about people coming together.  I listened to the audiobook with the full cast narration and the moment I heard Julia Whelan’s voice I knew that I was in good hands.   I can’t imagine what the book is like to visually read, but there is no way that it could be better than the full cast narration which included the well-known voices of Jennifers Beals, Pablo Schreiber, Benjamin Bratt, Fred Berman, Ari Fliakos, Judy Greer, Robinne Lee, Julia Whelan, Jonathon Davis, Henry Leyva, Oliver Wyman, Nancy Wu, P.J. Ochlan, Arthur Bishop, Holter Graham, Brendan Wayne, Pete Larkin, Alex Jenkins Reid, Robert Petkoff, and Sara Arrington.  Reid has a way of leaving you feeling like everything is going to be all right, a sense of tainted hope that feels true because it isn’t perfect. It’s the kind of story that is easily consumed in just one sitting on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

Daisy Jones & The Six was published by Books on Tape as in imprint of Random House Audio.