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A review by mimiathereader
The Monsters of Music by Rebecca F. Kenney
5.0
4.5 stars
This book is a retelling of The Phantom of the Opera but it is also a story about a broken girl that thinks she is a monster (and she sometimes acts like one) and how she found love and acceptance. This is also a story about a lot of people that you come to care about although they’re minor characters with their very own flaws.
After the first few chapters, this book hooked me and I only stopped when I really had to. Can’t tell if it was the good writing, the so-real characters that want to do good but sometimes don’t go about it the best way, if the dark, theatrical setting, if a mixture of all that or something else entirely. All I know is that I read it in 1.5 days (with a pesky interruption in the middle) and I wish I could have read faster and at the same time that it hadn’t ended so I could continue immersed in this story for a little while more.
Being a book about muses and music, this book came with links to musics related to each chapter. I stopped reading to go listen to each one for almost the whole book but at the end I gave up and simply continued reading because I just wanted to know more about the story. Listening to the music before each chapter is very interesting because it sets the tone for the chapter before you start reading it and that was fun but the way I did it kept interrupting my reading rhythm so maybe not the best way to experience the book
This book is a retelling of The Phantom of the Opera but it is also a story about a broken girl that thinks she is a monster (and she sometimes acts like one) and how she found love and acceptance. This is also a story about a lot of people that you come to care about although they’re minor characters with their very own flaws.
After the first few chapters, this book hooked me and I only stopped when I really had to. Can’t tell if it was the good writing, the so-real characters that want to do good but sometimes don’t go about it the best way, if the dark, theatrical setting, if a mixture of all that or something else entirely. All I know is that I read it in 1.5 days (with a pesky interruption in the middle) and I wish I could have read faster and at the same time that it hadn’t ended so I could continue immersed in this story for a little while more.
Being a book about muses and music, this book came with links to musics related to each chapter. I stopped reading to go listen to each one for almost the whole book but at the end I gave up and simply continued reading because I just wanted to know more about the story. Listening to the music before each chapter is very interesting because it sets the tone for the chapter before you start reading it and that was fun but the way I did it kept interrupting my reading rhythm so maybe not the best way to experience the book