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A review by kathryn08
Duet by Kimberley Freeman
3.0
This was a reasonably long book (I listened as an audiobook and it was almost 20 hours), but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed the different backstories of the various characters. The narrator, Caroline Lee, did a great job with all the accents - German, English, Greek!
I liked that part of the book is set in Coolum - which is a gorgeous part of Queensland!
And since I’ve just reached a 12 month anniversary of singing with JAFA, a local community choir, it was interesting to read a book about singing - although the focus is more on opera singing than what we sing in our choir. I had a chuckle to myself when classically-trained Ellie, who is trying to copy one of pop star Penny’s songs says that she can copy Penny’s singing by doing the things that she has been taught not to do such as poor breathing because they are bad habits, but she refused to throw in the occasional flat note as Penny did! And I’m afraid that when it comes to singing technique and bad habits, I resemble Penny more than Ellie :-(
The ending seemed a little contrived, but still enjoyable, despite that. 3.5★
I liked that part of the book is set in Coolum - which is a gorgeous part of Queensland!
And since I’ve just reached a 12 month anniversary of singing with JAFA, a local community choir, it was interesting to read a book about singing - although the focus is more on opera singing than what we sing in our choir. I had a chuckle to myself when classically-trained Ellie, who is trying to copy one of pop star Penny’s songs says that she can copy Penny’s singing by doing the things that she has been taught not to do such as poor breathing because they are bad habits, but she refused to throw in the occasional flat note as Penny did! And I’m afraid that when it comes to singing technique and bad habits, I resemble Penny more than Ellie :-(
The ending seemed a little contrived, but still enjoyable, despite that. 3.5★