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Symphony of Secrets
by Brendan Slocumb
Symphony of Secrets is a wonderful fictional thriller about a voice the music world tried to silence.
I’d read Slocumb’s debut, The Violin Conspiracy, and absolutely loved it, but I was worried this one would suffer the dreaded sophomore phenomenon. IT DIDN’T. It was just as powerful.
Slocumb’s exploration of people whose voices are silenced takes readers back to the early 1900s when music theft was rampant. People who were composing chart-topping music were often starving because the industry claiming to support them and their dream was stealing their music and voice.
Slocumb proposes that a wildly popular composition is not the work of a famous artist, but rather the stolen work of a homeless, neurodivergent Black woman! His examination of marginalized communities and people who are exploited is eye-opening and the masterful plot he planned to uncover the vital voices we’ve failed to hear is phenomenal and compelling.
I won’t forget Josephine Reed any time soon. Slocumb ensured that she was as memorable as her message.
I’ll be standing on my soap box for the foreseeable future making sure all music fans and thriller lovers hear about this book and put it on their reading list!
I’d read Slocumb’s debut, The Violin Conspiracy, and absolutely loved it, but I was worried this one would suffer the dreaded sophomore phenomenon. IT DIDN’T. It was just as powerful.
Slocumb’s exploration of people whose voices are silenced takes readers back to the early 1900s when music theft was rampant. People who were composing chart-topping music were often starving because the industry claiming to support them and their dream was stealing their music and voice.
Slocumb proposes that a wildly popular composition is not the work of a famous artist, but rather the stolen work of a homeless, neurodivergent Black woman! His examination of marginalized communities and people who are exploited is eye-opening and the masterful plot he planned to uncover the vital voices we’ve failed to hear is phenomenal and compelling.
I won’t forget Josephine Reed any time soon. Slocumb ensured that she was as memorable as her message.
I’ll be standing on my soap box for the foreseeable future making sure all music fans and thriller lovers hear about this book and put it on their reading list!