Already, I can tell you, this was one of my top reads for 2018, easily. What ensues is really a thinly-veiled attempt to rein in my inner fangirl. Also featuring the world’s deadliest future-chef (if the food doesn’t get you, her pink knives of fury will) and a really scary German character who yells a lot.Īaaand, unfortunately, it’s not this one. A Thousand Perfect Notes is the story of an adorable but socially awkward ball of sarcasm with music in his bones and his meet-cute with a girl who is probably training her army of critters to take over the world. Almost like magic, but with 100% less glitz and glamor, 500% more caffeinated drinks, and all the cake. It’s basically pulling a story out of thin air. But did you know she did this really crazy thing called writing a book? Drews (she needs a lot of aliases because only boring people have just one). If you like the sound of this book, place a request on it on our Library Catalogue for pick-up at your nearest branch.Let’s be honest: everyone knows Cait, a.k.a. Are you making decisions based on your own needs and desires? Or living out the dreams of others? This book makes the reader stop and take stock of what really matters, what is truly important and who you are actually living your life for. Soon notes begin to ring loud throughout the walls of his broken home, but the song isn’t the maestro’s, they are his perfect notes.Ī Thousand Perfect Notes has everything you could hope for in a book humour, strife, pain, and much more. No matter how many bloodied fingerprints dance along the keys of the piano, Beck isn’t capable of bringing the maestro’s notes to life.Ĭrushed under the weight of the world–or in this case the musical notes of the piano, Beck is struggling when August enters his life.Ī girl with a bright smile, a slightly quirky sense of humour, and completely abhors wearing shoes.īeck can’t be involved with August, friends or otherwise, he hasn’t the time and God help everyone if his mother ever found out but.Something about August brings out a musical side of him he’s never felt before.

Beck’s mother expects the world of him and Beck can’t ever seem to deliver it to her, no matter how hard or long he plays the piano. His mother-the well renowned maestro, used to play before she had her tragic accident and could play no more. Review: A thousand Perfect Notes centres around a boy who’s been raised to play music.

His hands bleed from the strain and yet he never seems to get the notes right.Īll of this changes when August walks into his life. Synopsis: Beck’s mother, a once famous pianist lives out her crushed dreams through her son.Ĭoerced into playing the piano, Beck spends his nights and days working studiously to play music his mother expects of him. Review by: Chantelle, LCA Intern for Library HQ

A thousand perfect notes