Dissonance Blue Notes Book 7 (Audible Audio Edition) Shira Anthony John Solo Dreamspinner Press LLC Books
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British noble Cameron Sherrington has hit rock bottom. The love of his life, opera sensation Aiden Lind, is marrying another man, and Cam knows it's his fault for pushing Aiden away. As if that's not enough, someone is trying to take away his family business, and the US authorities are pursuing him on charges of money laundering. Fearing for his safety and unable to return to London, Cam runs, but he's too broke to find a place to stay, and his fugitive's life doesn't even remotely resemble a Hollywood thriller.
Desperate and betrayed by the people he thought cared about him, Cam takes refuge in the subway station where Galen Rusk plays his trumpet for tips. Though Cam hears the beauty in Galen's music, it's Galen's firm hand on his shoulder that stops him from throwing everything away. Their unusual relationship takes a turn that surprises them both, and neither man is sure he wants the complication. Galen is fighting the ghosts of his past, and Cam has his own nightmares to face. When Cam's troubles threaten to tear them apart, Cam figures he had it coming - that it's all penance due for a life lived without honesty or love. But he never considered the possibility that he might not survive it.
Dissonance Blue Notes Book 7 (Audible Audio Edition) Shira Anthony John Solo Dreamspinner Press LLC Books
Ms. Anthony does it again - a remarkable, smart, moving read. The "Blue Notes" series is one of my very favorites, and Ms. Anthony has become one of my favorite authors. She writes fairly traditional gay romance, but, in this series, the protagonists are involved in classical music, in some way or another. "Dissonance" is no exception.It is a wonderfully-written tale of Cameron (a wealthy, minor British lord) and Galen, an incredibly talented trumpeter who spends his evenings playing in the New York subway. Talk about a meet-cute: dropping twenty bucks in the instrument case of a gorgeous and ridiculously talented musician! Cam, wallowing in his poshness and an ego that can only come from a total lack of self-confidence, sees Galen as a lazy lower-class American who would rather beg in the subway than put in a full day's work. Of course, he's outrageously wrong and Galen is nothing close to lazy or (as it turns out) lower-class.
Cam will change his tune, but only after hitting absolute bottom, with the FBI on his tail for a suspicious Cayman Islands account in his name. He's been set up, and set up by someone close to him. But when his "troubles" become known, most of his so-called "friends" turn out to be more than willing to turn him in to the FBI and even his mother encourages him to turn himself in and do his time. The only one who reaches out a truly selfless helping hand is the musician in the subway, who takes him home when Cam can no longer return to his apartment and all his accounts have been frozen. Galen is good for Cam, seeing the kind and passionate man hidden under self-protective layers of class, privilege and money. It takes a while, but Cam starts to heal under the kind and loving tutelage of the OCD-suffering Galen.
Of course, Galen turns out to be not what he first appears to be. Or at least he used to be another person - nothing bad, but he's also someone who has run away from his past to deal with his terror of committing his heart.
There's a revelation of terrible childhood sexual abuse, a conspiracy to use Cam as the fall-guy in a $12 million corporate theft scheme, and some serious reckoning between the two eventual lovers.
This is a beautifully-written book (as I have come to anticipate in any Shira Anthony novel), built on a truly authentic understanding of the life of a musician, and the fears of the human heart. It is not just a beautifully-written love story, it's a beautiful book that will not fail to move the reader. A little side-benefit is the cameo appearances by a couple of the stars of previous books in this series.
If you've read the other "BlueNotes" novels, I recommend this one with all my heart. In fact, even if you haven't read any of the others, I still recommend this one with all my heart.
I loved it.
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Dissonance Blue Notes Book 7 (Audible Audio Edition) Shira Anthony John Solo Dreamspinner Press LLC Books Reviews
Great Read.
Shira Anthony 's books are already on my automatic buy list. This book did not disappoint.The story line and characters were well developed. I liked the fact that this is about two people trying to overcome their demons by just excepting each others shortcomings. It is also a story where one of the characters could not handle the stress involved in appearing on stage as is happening with many soloist in the music industry. I thought it was a great book, well worth recommending.
I'm always intrigued by switching things up, with the bad guy in a former book now featured. So, Cam... it's not easy to go from creepy, threatening cheater to someone the least bit sympathetic, but slowly and surely we find out things, and the character grows enough to make it so. I think that "slow/sure" thing could inhibit a reader's ability to like being so much in Cam's pov. I think it helps having read the earlier books and knowing that Cam isn't the angel he appears to be on the outside--that he has issues he needs to work through, and those shouldn't disappear over-night.
I liked, also, that Cam is the poor little rich boy (he's a British Lord) and passes Galen who plays his trumpet in the NYC subway, thinking how lowly he must be, despite appreciating his beautiful playing-- And then positions are switched when Cam abruptly finds himself alone, without anything.
There were a couple of WTF?! moments, but they didn't spoil the story for me. I liked the slow-heating chemistry between the two characters and thought they were both interesting and not predictable. I’ve enjoyed all the books (stand-alones, but related) in this series.
The sixth, and IMHO, the best, of the Blue Notes series, this one brings back a nasty character named Cameron Sherrington, a minor British "royal" whose arrogant disregard for most people, including his lover, opera star Aiden Lind, set the stage for Aiden's story in Book 3 of the series, "Aria." Now having screwed up so many other lives, Lord Cameron (or, as he prefers, just plain Cam) has become a member of his wealthy family's business empire, settling in as a New York City-to-London-and-back jetsetter with an allowance but no real wealth, having blown his inheritance on hedonistic ventures the past several years.
During a trip to New York to celebrate his 30th birthday, three things happen to throw his dream world into a shattering nightmare after a lovely dinner date with his friends David Somers and Alex Bishop, protagonists in "Prelude," Book 4 of the series. (They will return late in the book at crucial juncture to add another sub-plot to this volume). While in the middle of a hot and heavy cruise with a guest at his birthday party, Cam gets a phone call from Aiden who tells him he is going to marry his partner, Sam, a lawyer who "rescued" Aiden from Cam in "Aria," crushing Cam's hopes of wooing Aiden, his only true love, back. Then he makes contact in the subway (his preferred ride in the city) with a trumpet player whom he has viewed a few times before who plays exceptionally beautiful music. This is Galen Rusk, a man about his age with golden hair, beautiful eyes, and an inner peace that appeals to Cam in many ways, some of which he can't comprehend..
Then he finds out all his money and assets have been frozen by his company on orders of British and American financial regulators, and the FBI is looking for him as a potential money launderer. Cam, who has no idea what is going on, cannot find anyone to help him since the FBI has surrounded him and his friends and associates with intimidation, as is their procedure at times. Thrown to the wolves with no money, he manages to wind up in the subway and there Galen rescues him and convinces him to accompany him home.
This Good Samaritan outreach is handled beautifully and without author's tricks by Shira Anthony, as a destitute and frightened Cam finds himself in a small farm house in the suburbs of New Jersey getting to know (and being cared for by) Galen, a high school music teacher who likes to play in the subway (not an unusual scenario for those of us who live in New York City to understand). This encounter plays out for both Cam and Galen, both of whom are damaged goods. Galen's sympathetic but gentle prodding of Cam, based on what Galen says is his experience in a similar situation, brings out hidden secrets in Cam's life which not only bring him into a psychological nightmare, but also gives him hints of what, and who, is behind his fugitive status.
The book then takes the appropriate turn as Cam and Galen figure out what happened, but when that situation seems to be solved (and it's a wild ride, indeed, subway included), and it looks like these two star-crossed men might become lovers, serendipity takes over. On a trip back to England where Cam has taken Galen to meet his social circle, they are invited to a party at the home of the aforementioned David Somers and Alex Bishop--and the biggest secret of all is revealed.
All you will say is "wow!" because while it might have occurred to you that Galen could be "the man behind the green curtain ," (so to speak), this comes totally out of the blue (no pun intended). How this all plays into the outcome is cleverly handled by Ms. Anthony, who also teases us with the possibility that another book is on the way with a protagonist who has been introduced to us in this one.
This book, like all the ones in the Blue Notes series, is promoted as a stand alone that you do not have to read in order. I beg to differ because there are characters from each novel which wander in and out of others, and they are often involved in plot lines. However, Ms. Anthony always gives enough background to provide a comfortable fit for those who are inclined to cherry pick through the group. My advice is to read them in order--for the richness of the writing, the development of the characters, the growth of a community, and most of all for bringing music to our souls in ways that we may not have experienced before. Bravo!
Ms. Anthony does it again - a remarkable, smart, moving read. The "Blue Notes" series is one of my very favorites, and Ms. Anthony has become one of my favorite authors. She writes fairly traditional gay romance, but, in this series, the protagonists are involved in classical music, in some way or another. "Dissonance" is no exception.
It is a wonderfully-written tale of Cameron (a wealthy, minor British lord) and Galen, an incredibly talented trumpeter who spends his evenings playing in the New York subway. Talk about a meet-cute dropping twenty bucks in the instrument case of a gorgeous and ridiculously talented musician! Cam, wallowing in his poshness and an ego that can only come from a total lack of self-confidence, sees Galen as a lazy lower-class American who would rather beg in the subway than put in a full day's work. Of course, he's outrageously wrong and Galen is nothing close to lazy or (as it turns out) lower-class.
Cam will change his tune, but only after hitting absolute bottom, with the FBI on his tail for a suspicious Cayman Islands account in his name. He's been set up, and set up by someone close to him. But when his "troubles" become known, most of his so-called "friends" turn out to be more than willing to turn him in to the FBI and even his mother encourages him to turn himself in and do his time. The only one who reaches out a truly selfless helping hand is the musician in the subway, who takes him home when Cam can no longer return to his apartment and all his accounts have been frozen. Galen is good for Cam, seeing the kind and passionate man hidden under self-protective layers of class, privilege and money. It takes a while, but Cam starts to heal under the kind and loving tutelage of the OCD-suffering Galen.
Of course, Galen turns out to be not what he first appears to be. Or at least he used to be another person - nothing bad, but he's also someone who has run away from his past to deal with his terror of committing his heart.
There's a revelation of terrible childhood sexual abuse, a conspiracy to use Cam as the fall-guy in a $12 million corporate theft scheme, and some serious reckoning between the two eventual lovers.
This is a beautifully-written book (as I have come to anticipate in any Shira Anthony novel), built on a truly authentic understanding of the life of a musician, and the fears of the human heart. It is not just a beautifully-written love story, it's a beautiful book that will not fail to move the reader. A little side-benefit is the cameo appearances by a couple of the stars of previous books in this series.
If you've read the other "BlueNotes" novels, I recommend this one with all my heart. In fact, even if you haven't read any of the others, I still recommend this one with all my heart.
I loved it.
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