lilyellyn 's review for:

The Ensemble by Aja Gabel

3.0

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This book tells the story of four wildly talented members of a string quartet who forgo independent careers to work as a group throughout their adult lives. It spans more than 20 years of their lives together and apart. Parts of this are really beautiful and lyrical, bit in the end I found it to be borderline too long and a bit over-written. As in, I felt like it was trying to wax eloquent on the meaning of life and relationships, and I loved the core message about how loving other people is a huge part of what makes us human, but at times it was just a bit too much.