Can I give this Six stars? It feels pretty fitting that the book about a band called The Six feels like the best book I've read (listened to) all year and I'm not regretting giving 5 stars out too easily to other books 😂

First off, listen to the audiobook with the full cast! This feels like one of those books that really shines in audio form, especially the documentary interview style narrative structure, you get to hear all the individual voices and the emotions in them.

I went into this pretty much blind, I knew it was a historical fiction book of sorts about a 1970s rock band and was at least partially inspired by Fleetwood Mac, but that was as much as I knew, I just picked it up from Libby because it was available and I wanted something different to break up some other books. Then maybe 10-15 minutes in I was online having to search to make sure I wasn't actually just listening to a documentary about a real band that I somehow had never heard off! It maybe should include a little warning at the start to state that it is actually a fictional story 😂

Full of all the drama you could imagine a successful 70s rock band had to deal with, and all the emotional impact that it had on the people involved in it. The struggle of trying to make it in the music industry, the sudden rise to fame, all the ego and personality clashes within the band, all the substance abuse and struggles to keep that out of their personal lives or to have a life that didn't just revolve around that. The characters all have such great depth, especially with how they all play off each other and there are great overlapping emotional storylines which connect them together.

Definitely Six stars, and now I'm off to start watching the TV show to see if it even comes close to being as good as the book is!

A good conclusion to what has been a great series, only slightly let down by a very short epilogue which doesn't give these characters enough time for a proper send-off and a few key characters feel like they have been set to the side a bit for this final book to focus on Satyrus.

The political intrigue, fantastic setting, epic battles and attention to small details all still remain strong in this final book, and the Battle of Ipsus really is the epic climatic battle that the series deserves to end on.