Lan, retired starship captain, alien, intergalactic refugee and current owner of a donut shop. No, you didn’t have to be a rocket scientist to make donuts-but that didn’t mean being a rocket scientist didn’t help. Who has closed her heart to the world and hardened herself to her mission.
There’s the incomparably terrifying Shizuka Satomi, legendary violin teacher who grooms geniuses who deliver never before seen musical prowess (and then they die horrifically, but whatever, they’re famous). Who needs the Devil when people can create a hell like this themselves? It follows three women along their journey to each other (and to themselves as well). It’s definitely one of my top 10 ( 5!) reads of 2021, if not the best book I’ve read this year. It breaks the modern rules of writing-there’s head hopping galore, there’s multiple POVs, there’s everything and sadness and life and death and just. Its scope is huge and the cast varied, while at the same time it’s as intimate as staring at your own face in the mirror.
Or maybe my soul? I dunno, but this book has shattered and healed and shattered something again and then healed it once more. What makes a violin special is not its fragility, but its resilience But it’s all going to end if she doesn’t bring that soul to hell… She’s brought six, but time is running out on number seven…then she hears the music in the most unlikely of places, and begins to rediscover hope and donuts and happiness, and worlds beyond her own. Deliver seven prodigies, and get her music back.
Shizuka Satomi was once the best violinist in the world-until she lost her talent and made a deal with the devil.
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