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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
If you're a fan of P.S I Love You, you'd enjoy this book (I absolutely love that movie, so I absolutely LOVED THIS BOOK!!!)
Natalie loses her husband two years ago from a tragic car/bicycle accident. Before her husband Russ passed, she worked at a piano school and was writing a musical with her best friend. At the funeral, her best friend Edie tells her something that causes them to no longer speak to each other. Natalie loses her husband, best friend and basically her job all at once.
Here we are two and a half years later, Natalie spends her two days off (Tuesdays and Thursdays) playing a piano in a train station and then goes and gets coffee at a coffee shop also in the station. She soon starts to find sheets of music left for her at the piano. Not just any sheet music, but songs that were her late husband's favorites or remind Natalie of him in some way.
Is Russ leaving this music behind? Is someone playing a prank on her? Is it her family and friends? On the way of finding out who is doing this, we follow Natalie working at her mom's boutique, being set up at bars by her friends, going to music therapy, and so much more.
This was my first Lia Louis book and I am so excited to read more. This is one of my new favorite books! I couldn't put it down and couldn't stop talking about it. Thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for this advanced copy!
Natalie loses her husband two years ago from a tragic car/bicycle accident. Before her husband Russ passed, she worked at a piano school and was writing a musical with her best friend. At the funeral, her best friend Edie tells her something that causes them to no longer speak to each other. Natalie loses her husband, best friend and basically her job all at once.
Here we are two and a half years later, Natalie spends her two days off (Tuesdays and Thursdays) playing a piano in a train station and then goes and gets coffee at a coffee shop also in the station. She soon starts to find sheets of music left for her at the piano. Not just any sheet music, but songs that were her late husband's favorites or remind Natalie of him in some way.
Is Russ leaving this music behind? Is someone playing a prank on her? Is it her family and friends? On the way of finding out who is doing this, we follow Natalie working at her mom's boutique, being set up at bars by her friends, going to music therapy, and so much more.
This was my first Lia Louis book and I am so excited to read more. This is one of my new favorite books! I couldn't put it down and couldn't stop talking about it. Thanks to NetGalley and Atria Books for this advanced copy!
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Very beautiful and emotional story of over coming grief with new friends and eventually love. Very well narrated, she did an excellent job.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Grief
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
the key to my heart
By Lia Louis
This is such a sweet read!
I really really enjoyed it.
Natalie has lost the love of her life, Russ!
Her whole world has been shattered.
It's been two years and she has been slowly trying to piece her life back together, finding a little heart remedy by playing the piano at St.Pancras Station but one day she finds a sheet of music that only Russ would know hidden in the stool at the piano.
Who has left the music?
Can Natalie find love again?
This book had a really believable storyline, which I loved.
👫 Gorgeous characters
✨️ Hope
💔 Loss
❤️ Love
🎹 Music
😂 Humour
I loved the characters in this book, and there were a few comical moments that made me chuckle, but it was the heartfelt stuff that got me the most.
My favourite quote
'Happiness is something you wear, you know.
Lights up every part of you. Inside and out.'
This is the first of @lialouisauthor books that I've read, but she is definitely going to be an auto buy author for me.
💕✨️💕✨️💕✨️💕✨️
Don't let anyone dull your sparkle ✨️ 💛
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me!🤓
Title: The Key To My Heart
Author: Lia Louis
Publisher: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
The Key to My Heart is football and it’s Red Friday today in Kansas City as we await the Chiefs playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday. So exciting!! What is the key to your heart? Other acceptable answers for me are: family, my dogs, fall, and coffee. And books obviously! Lets talk about this one in particular…
The Key To My Heart is the third book I’ve read by author Lia Louis (I haven’t read her debut before Dear Emmie Blue) and while it wasn’t my favorite of the three, I still binged it in one evening; so I’ll say that’s still pretty good!
Natalie used to be so sparkly. She was married, fixing up the cottage of her dreams, and about to tour with the musical she had written. Then her husband suddenly died and all her hopes and dreams disappeared too.
“I find most people don’t know what to say, because they’re too busy trying to find the perfect words, they don’t realize that you’d rather say, ‘What a pile of sh!t you’ve been handed, I’m gutted you’re going through it.’”
Over two years later Natalie is still lost, pushing friends away who mean well but don’t understand her grief, she’s lost motivation, her love for music; she’s basically just running through the motions. But when someone starts mysteriously leaving sheet music at the train station where Natalie plays she starts to feel excitement for the first time, in a long time. She starts to fall in love with herself again and maybe even the idea of someone else!
Rating: This book was a four star for me until I go to the ending and now after I finished it, it’s one of those sneaky ones I’ve thought about again and again. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author: Lia Louis
Publisher: Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books
Genre: Contemporary Fiction
The Key to My Heart is football and it’s Red Friday today in Kansas City as we await the Chiefs playing in the Super Bowl on Sunday. So exciting!! What is the key to your heart? Other acceptable answers for me are: family, my dogs, fall, and coffee. And books obviously! Lets talk about this one in particular…
The Key To My Heart is the third book I’ve read by author Lia Louis (I haven’t read her debut before Dear Emmie Blue) and while it wasn’t my favorite of the three, I still binged it in one evening; so I’ll say that’s still pretty good!
Natalie used to be so sparkly. She was married, fixing up the cottage of her dreams, and about to tour with the musical she had written. Then her husband suddenly died and all her hopes and dreams disappeared too.
“I find most people don’t know what to say, because they’re too busy trying to find the perfect words, they don’t realize that you’d rather say, ‘What a pile of sh!t you’ve been handed, I’m gutted you’re going through it.’”
Over two years later Natalie is still lost, pushing friends away who mean well but don’t understand her grief, she’s lost motivation, her love for music; she’s basically just running through the motions. But when someone starts mysteriously leaving sheet music at the train station where Natalie plays she starts to feel excitement for the first time, in a long time. She starts to fall in love with herself again and maybe even the idea of someone else!
Rating: This book was a four star for me until I go to the ending and now after I finished it, it’s one of those sneaky ones I’ve thought about again and again. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
lighthearted
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief