A Thousand Perfect Notes by C.G. Drews.
Allow me to fling out my thoughts because I just finished the book yesterday!
Just. Just.
That internal struggle teenagers face trying to stand up to their parents when they know it’s right but they just don’t have the courage because they’ve never been able to before and there’s no one else to support them when it would all inevitably go wrong.
That was just so captured in the book and all I can feel is ouch ouch ouch.
And also feeling unable to tell anyone about his problems lest he embarrass himself (though really expose his mother for how awful she is though he can’t really admit that because what kid can admit their parent is awful when they’re stuck with them?!)
Yeah, that was all amazing and the Maestro felt so real, like those psycho parents you’ll hear about in the news after beating up their kid. Agh. All the unstable “logic” and manipulation of that kind of parent, it’s a pretty good snapshot of all those negative facets for someone to be wary of in a person.
I’m not sure how to describe this book, there’s a lightness to it, an accessibility to a heavier theme, but that theme makes it dark. It’s gloomy, but it doesn’t turn reading burdensome. I guess it’s well balanced. And the last few pages from the end, my eyes got watery and tears fell out. A solid book, and so exciting to read after anticipating for so long!
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