“You have to teach your heart and mind how to sing together…then you’ll hear the sound of your soul.”
Mia Kelly thinks she has it all figured out. She’s an Ivy League graduate, a classically trained pianist, and the beloved daughter of a sensible mother and offbeat father. Yet Mia has been stalling since graduation, torn between putting her business degree to use and exploring music, her true love.
When her father unexpectedly dies, she decides to pick up the threads of his life while she figures out her own. Uprooting herself from Ann Arbor to New York City, Mia takes over her father’s café, a treasured neighborhood institution that plays host to undiscovered musicians and artists. She’s denied herself the thrilling and unpredictable life of a musician, but a chance encounter with Will, a sweet, gorgeous, and charming guitarist, offers her a glimpse of what could be. When Will becomes her friend and then her roommate, she does everything in her power to suppress her passions-for him, for music-but her father’s legacy slowly opens her heart to the possibility of something more.
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[usr 3.7]
I liked the book. This book is about Mia and Will. Mia meet’s Will after she moves to New York following her father’s death. After her father’s death she is lost. She let’s Will move in as her roommate. The two connect through music. They have a rocky road ahead of them as she struggles to get close. Her fear of getting into a relationship with Will brings her life into a tail spin of sorts.
I did not really care for Mia, she frustrated me. But in the end I came to like her.
I enjoyed the people around Mia, that she worked with and became friends with. I like ended up thinking of them as family.
I really liked Will. He’s a great character, fun and witty.
There was a part of the book, I did not like. The story with Jackson. It’s too heartbreaking for me to read about animals dying. The hardest part I think was that it hit close to home for me. I had a similar situation with my dog Cutie.
The writing is good. The characters are likable. This one is a little bit a tear jerker. I love how the book ended with a happy ending, and not with any cliff hanger.
Read on for Mike’s review where he was better able to put into words what I was tried to say and could not find the words for me. As his review mentions, the fate of one of the characters “wrecked me”.
[usr 5]
I received a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
The writing and story really sucked me in on this one, and that’s a good thing because I don’t think I could have put up with Mia and Will otherwise! There’s a lot to love about both of them but oh my god I would be hard pressed to think of a more exasperating couple! When I think of all the drama they could have not had to endure if they just actually said what was on their minds *smh*
I spent most of the book worrying and dreading what was going to happen to one of the other characters because I knew right away that it was coming and it was going to wreck me. And more than anything in the book it did :~(
I know Mia is a really polarizing character (face it, we all love Will) folks seem to love or hate her, but I find myself just feeling sorry for her through most of this as she’s so at war with herself and keeps letting her fear keep her from really living her own life. I think she was just flailing around in her own life and took over her fathers not just in a sense of duty but also because it was easier to follow his footsteps than to figure out her own path at that point.
So follow along with Mia as she takes an emotional roller coaster ride on the way towards being able to let go of her fear, love herself, and those around her.
This story has all sorts of things that I love that people never seem to have ever heard of when I tell them about it, like;
I was pleasantly surprised to see a reference to one of my favorite piano players Jon Schmidt of the Piano Guys! Here’s Jon Schmidt playing “All of Me” http://youtu.be/9fAZIQ-vpdw
That had to be one of the funniest meltowns I’ve ever seen!
Turducken! Only what is wrong with her taste buds? All that coffee burned them off?! Insanity!
An awesome example of live looping http://youtu.be/czkJYLqylzs
