A review by cordialkim
Lost Melody by Joanna Davidson Politano

slow-paced

0.5

My main problem is that this book was in a subscription and it was a hidden Christian book. Nowhere in the fly leaf or even in the author bio is this mentioned. I can’t blame the author for that I guess. But suddenly, halfway into the book it starts mentioning God and St. Paul and religious themes so frequently that I felt tricked and uncomfortable and frankly pissed off. Sometimes there’s four in a single paragraph! I will read religious fiction once in a while but when I know what I’m getting. They buried it and that ended any enjoyment I might have had. Also there were more than a dozen references to the term gaslit, gaslight or variations thereof in the first 130 pages. And if you don’t like references to how bright or dim or candlelit a place might be, especially corridors, hallways and corners over and over and over again - then this might not be for you. The idea is an asylum as a setting was intriguing and quotes from famous musicians were lovely. That’s all I could recommend. I did not invest in the characters or their outcomes because I was distracted by all of the rest of it listed above.