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Title: A melody I couldn't quite hear
Review: I know this book won awards and I have read the review of others who really liked it but I have to say that I found it lacking. It seemed very slow to get into anything (I guess kind of like the characters themselves). I had to fight to continue to read this novel until more than half way through. At that point the characters began to peak my interest and I guess there was a certain curiousity as to how things would turn out. Perhaps because I don't have any experience of a small town in the west I couldn't quite deal with the pace of the storyline. Most times when I finish a book I hate to leave the characters, I want to remain in their lives and continue to see where life takes them. I didn't really care about these folks and I'm not quite sure why. The story just didn't grab me.
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