On Sale Date: June 2nd 2016
Pages: 322
Crisis in the small town of Bridgeford,it is dealing with quite a few problems small towns are dealing with; local business are going out of business, and the main streets are becoming more and more empty as a result. It seems like Bridgeford is slowly losing it's specific soul.
There are a few community organisations who try to keep Bridgeford alive. One of them is the community choir. An important choir contest is coming up, but as in all Bridgeford, the choir needs new blood, new members, or otherwise even taking part in the contest is out of question. Especially now the choir leader Constance had an accident and is out of running.It is here that a colorful cast of characters enters the community hall: a mother suffering from empty-nest syndrome, a middle-aged man who has just lost his job and his family, and a nineteen-year-old waitress who dreams of reality-TV stardom, the choir regulars must find--and make--harmony with neighbors they've been happy not to know for years. Two of the new members are Tracy and Bennett.Tracey who sounds like a pop star is hiding a big secret. Bennett is the perfect tenor but he is baffled by the modern world. Both of them feel rather lost and alone. Can Tracey and Bennett learn to work together, save the choir and maybe even their community?
The first part of the book was brilliantly written. It truly made me curious about the characters and plot. The next parts though w ere less good. I think a few points made the story quite dry and slow. First of all, the style of writing. It can be charming to write in an old fashioned way like the author did in this book, but it made this story drag along and made it hard to follow most of it. Secondly, it was too detailed. There were quite a few parts that didn't add anything at all to the story, and kept down it's pace. There were quite a few characters that all fought for attention of the reader, and it really had me lost in the end. Overall I liked the idea of the plot, it reminded me a bit of books like The Christmas Knit-Off, but it lacked pace, a cleaned out plot, and character you would care for as a reader.
