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Symphony of Secrets
by Brendan Slocumb
3.5⭐️Symphony of Secrets is Brendan Slocumbs sophomore novel. Thank you PRH Audio for the complementary audiobook!
Bern Hendricks, a music professor at UVA, gets a call from the foundation of the world’s most famous composer (Frederick Delany) to transcribe his last and final composition, known as RED. However, as he works on it, Bern discovers that Delany may have had help from someone else and that there are people who will go great lengths to prevent this information getting out. Alternating between present day and the 1920s, where we learn more about Delany and his relationship with Josephine Reed, Slocumb blends historical facts and musical knowledge with suspense and mystery with such talent.
While I did not like this book as much as The Violin Conspiracy and think some parts were repetitive, I thought the plot was unique and the themes of racism and power were strongly represented. I was definitely more invested in the past timeline than the present, and I loved learning more about the nuerodivergent music prodigy, Josephine Reed.
Read if you like:
-Historical mysteries
-Past/ present timeline
-The 1920s music world
-Composing
-BIPOC representation
Bern Hendricks, a music professor at UVA, gets a call from the foundation of the world’s most famous composer (Frederick Delany) to transcribe his last and final composition, known as RED. However, as he works on it, Bern discovers that Delany may have had help from someone else and that there are people who will go great lengths to prevent this information getting out. Alternating between present day and the 1920s, where we learn more about Delany and his relationship with Josephine Reed, Slocumb blends historical facts and musical knowledge with suspense and mystery with such talent.
While I did not like this book as much as The Violin Conspiracy and think some parts were repetitive, I thought the plot was unique and the themes of racism and power were strongly represented. I was definitely more invested in the past timeline than the present, and I loved learning more about the nuerodivergent music prodigy, Josephine Reed.
Read if you like:
-Historical mysteries
-Past/ present timeline
-The 1920s music world
-Composing
-BIPOC representation