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The Song Remains The Same (2012)

by Allison Winn Scotch(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0399157581 (ISBN13: 9780399157585)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Putnam Adult

review 1: Did not like this book. It started out OK but I grew quickly to dislike every character. I couldn't find myself able to understand their motivations. The protagonist's obsession with her father just got annoying as hell. Her husband seemed like an unnecessary appendage. I found everyone's actions unbelievable. There was no real character development or storyline that even made sense. At about the 1/2 way point I found myself asking, "who cares what happens to anyone in this book?" Not a good question to be asking. Disappointing.
review 2: Huh. This was very, very good. I have to be honest, I picked this up a few books after I finished her most recent novel, The Theory of Opposites, and at first, there were some similarities that concerned me. "The song really D... moreOES remain the same!" I fretted to a friend. It didn't. At all. I was pleasantly shocked. There are some similar themes in personal growth in that each of the protagonists (and I'm comparing directly to TOO here) has an opportunity to start fresh and do the opposite of what they would do before, but they end there, and diverge pretty quickly. What I particularly enjoyed was that there were a myriad options for the author to use cliches, and not once--NOT ONCE!--did she take the opportunity. It was refreshing! It could have been so predictable and it wasn't. At all. It just . . . it wasn't predictable at all, and it was believable (given the necessary suspension of disbelief). And best of all -- and this is a tiny spoiler -- it isn't a romance. There is nothing romantic here. NOTHING. She just takes what could have been an uncomfortably cliche romance and NEVER GOES THERE. IT IS MARVELOUS. less

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