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The Weight of a Piano by Chris Cander
2.0
The first chapter was so beautifully written. It seemed like every single word in that first chapter was so carefully thought out and used with intent describing how Bluthner, the piano maker, selected each tree carefully for the purposes of making a piano. Then the rest of the book followed. What a disappointment. The beautiful flow was lacking in the subsequent chapters. The story was OK, if a little predictable. I might have given it 3 stars by the end except
Spoilerthe very idea of shoving a Bluthner off a cliff was abhorrent to me
, so I left it at the 2 stars that I originally planned.