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J. Keith Jackson
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Curtis M. Lawson
Great art demands sacrifice.
Lucien Beaumont is a teenage misfit and musical prodigy ostracized by his peers and haunted by familial tragedy. When he discovers an unfinished song composed by his dead father - a song that holds terrible power - Lucien becomes obsessed. As he chases after the secret nature of his father's music, the line between gruesome fantasy and real life violence begins to blur.
To complete his father's work, Lucien believes that he and his group of outcast friends must appease a demonic force trapped within the music with increasingly sadistic offerings. As things spiral out of control, he finds that the cost of his art will be the lives of everyone around him and, perhaps, his very soul.
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Super Dark and Well Written
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Darkly artistic
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You can almost hear the music...
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Creepy and Cautionary
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A crazy intense horror Story.... and I loved it!
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One of the most original stories out there.
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When I first started I found I liked the main character.... and I wanted there to be another book. So much so that I asked my husband if the start of the book as the real ending. I was disappointed... however once I got into it, I found Lucian is completely wackadoodle. While I hate bullies, I still found myself shouting at the main characters when they did something absolutely dumb or outrageous.
The book is good. It kept my attention the whole time. I really like the voice actor for this book. He has good range and brings the characters to life. While I found I wanted to like the main character as the book went on I found I was ok with how the book was going to end. I was so upset at poor Maxwell, a cinnamon roll that needed to be protected.
I especially liked the demon mentioning "Erich Zann" one of my favorite HP Lovecraft stories.
The books ending is perfect for the characters and I really enjoyed watching their fall into madness.
Bechdel test: Passed - only barely - Minor characters Violet and April talking to each other.
Unreliable narrator... You bet!
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Can't recommend this one enough. One hell of a book. Hats off to Lawson!
Gripping, profound, tremendous!
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The music of the Old Ones
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Overall, I liked this book quite a bit, but I wouldn't say I loved it. It's well-written and imaginative, and the plot was somewhat predictable but otherwise fairly well plotted.
The main character/narrator is a pretentious, formerly-rich, fallen-from-grace white kid (named Lucien Beaumont, because of course) with a penchant for classical music and American Psycho-esque violence who's suffering from the double-edged traumas of his father's suicide and a mother who has all but abandoned him to live the rest of her "life" in a drug- and booze-fueled state of non-living, locked away in her room.
Early in the novel, Lucien finds a vandalized copy of a madrigal (a song) that his father was working on with another famous composer were working on before his father committed suicide. Lucien assumes that the destruction wrought upon the song's manuscript was caused by his mother who, in a drug-fueled haze, wanted to take revenge on his oh-so-saintly father for committing suicide. Despite the vandalism, Lucien is able to make out a few notes, and decides to recreate and finish the song, and in the process finds inspiration from an infernal muse, a demonic unicorn named Amduscias who is one of the Grand Dukes of Hell. Like you do.
While not an entirely unsympathetic character, Lucien is so pretentious and self-righteous in his self-imposed elitism that I found it difficult to care about him and what happens to him because he's just such a douchebag. The fact that he was also the only three-dimensional character in the book (or was that just his unreliable narration?) made it difficult for me to care about any of the other characters as well.
The audiobook narrator's performance was fine, but nothing groundbreaking. However, I didn't care for the production quality all that much, even though I appreciated what they were trying to do with it, especially in regards to Lucien's fantasies / inner monologues. I think the same effect could have been accomplished through the narrator's performance instead of through the production, but what can you do?
All that said, I enjoyed this book quite a lot, and I will definitely be reading more of Curtis M. Lawson's work in the future.
Good Story, Weird Production/Performance Quality
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