_wmjb_ 's review for:

The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce

2.0

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I’m sorry I wasted my time on this book. The second star is only for the description of music in the beginning. Frank would describe what is being conveyed in certain pieces such as how you can hear the birds and the rustling leaves and even the ice in Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. Such promise. Then it went quickly downhill. Frank and Ilse were supposed to have fallen in love over the shared love of music. But there was absolutely no chemistry between them. And they treated each other poorly. There is a whole argument of “you didn’t say Hello to me....Well you didn’t say Hello to me first.” It would describe Frank getting carried away in the meaning of the music music until he found himself standing and waving his arms, while there sat Ilse with literally her chin in her hands staring wide-eyed at him. Ilse’s two big reveals were so boring! The most interesting people were Kit and the other shop owners and residents of Unity Street. This is one of the few books I want to throw away for the disappointment it caused me.