A Thousand Perfect Notes, by C. G. Drews - Review

"Whaaaat? Chloe has decided to make time for book reviews?"

*cough*

Well. Midway through a week off of work I decided to try and stockpile a few posts, so know that even though this is releasing probably smack-dab in the middle of the first week of classes starting back up, I wrote this two weeks ago at least. That's right, a scheduled post that'll go up as soon as I've forgotten about it.

(also, I started a bookstagram: @always_a_shadow)

*** I was not given a copy in exchange for an honest review, I just thought it was super fantastic and decided to review it without any kind of motivation.

Blurb:

"An emotionally charged story about the power of dreams, and how passion can turn to obsession. Beck hates his life. He hates his violent mother. He hates his home. Most of all, he hates the piano that his mother forces him to play hour after hour, day after day. He will never play as she did before illness ended her career and left her bitter and broken. But Beck is too scared to stand up to his mother, and tell her his true passion, which is composing his own music - because the least suggestion of rebellion on his part ends in violence. When Beck meets August, a girl full of life, energy and laughter, love begins to awaken within him and he glimpses a way to escape his painful existence. But dare he reach for it? Thrilling and powerfully written, this is an explosive debut for YA readers which tackles the dark topic of domestic abuse in an ultimately hopeful tale."

My Thoughts:

Oh my goodness.

Ok. 

It's really sad. But there's also cake and dogs and music and sunshine. 

Of all the books I've read, ATPN is the only one to really pull off crippling depression smushed together with a character dead set on dragging out said depression by forcefully adopting the depressed person and feeding him cake; but in a very real and heartfelt way.

One of my favorite character tropes is dark and moody person A drawn out by sunshine and glitter person B, so this perfectly captured that.

It is best enjoyed with classical music, chocolate, and a few sobs thrown in here and there.

A caution to younger readers/parents of younger readers: 

Umm. This is a book that addresses abuse. 

I wouldn't say that it is necessarily excessively graphic, but there is enough that I would not recommend ATPN to a reader under the age of 14-15ish, just to be on the safer side.

As for language; I believe there was only one four-letter adult word that started with an 's'.

Add on Goodreads and get a copy on Amazon! (the kindle version was $0.99 at the time this post was written)

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4 Stars.
Who has read ATPN? 

Come, we shall sob together!