DAISY JONES & the SIX - Not Worth Keeping Up With

Taylor Jenkins Reid's novel "Daisy Jones & the Six" is a Reese Book Club pick.  This is a stamp of approval for a guilty pleasure with little, if any literary measure.  Reese's pick is an indiscernible romance dalliance.  Touted as the sex, drugs & rock & roll era of the 70s but there's no glitter ball  to shed light on the epoch; nothing of note to spin this shaggy-dog story into stuff worth snorting.  Daisy is born with a silver spoon in her mouth and a golden voice.  She's also drop dead gorgeous and everything seems to come her way.  Her looks, confidence & lack of inhibition land her a gig with a rock group called the SIX which shall heretofore be known as Daisy Jones & the Six.  Daisy is endowed with talent for songwriting along with a set of pipes that emote angst, strength & sex.  The storytelling gimmick novel is an interview format by a mystery journalist interviewing Daisy & the other six original bandmates who were unwittingly or unwilling orchestrated by Billy.  Billy is your long haired, denim on denim sex magnet.  Billy is also married to Camilla with 3 young daughters.   Daisy has dynamite chemistry with Billy but Camilla is no wallflower.  The limping pulse to the novel is whether Billy will stay on the wagon or stray from his wife.  Camilla is a straight shooter with plenty to say.  It's for the reader to say whether she's solid as a rock or more of a doormat.  Billy's younger brother Graham is in the band and he's so in love with Karen on the keyboards. Eddie is hassled.  Pete has a life outside the band.  Warren warrants little attention and the people interviewed outside the band don't add much to the mix.  The whole shebang is a sappy, crappy tale of unrequited love.  DAISY JONES & the SIX belongs in Davey Jone's locker.  However, if you're searching for some easy, breezy read for the beach, this might strike the right chord.