Thank You for the Music. Jennifer Young. Tirgearr Publishing. February
2014. 267 pp. E-Book. ISBN #: 978131180032; ASIN #: B00I9G169G.
Abbie
Mortimer is reeling! She’s just lost her
father to death. Her boyfriend, Edward,
tells her she’s spent too much time with her family while her father was dying
and confesses he’s met someone else. Double whammy! Absolutely overwhelmed, she knows she needs
to get away and so decides to visit her sister, Liv and her husband Robert, who
run a hotel in Majorca. Abbie is very
good at graphic design work and has always loved her hobby – singing in amateur
musical shows locally. But right now all
she wants is some peace and quiet and a chance to figure out what she wants to
do with the rest of her life, without Edward!
Abbie
quickly fits into the hectic schedule at the hotel and yet finds some time to
relax, taking walks along the beautiful beach.
But peace seems to elude Abbie quickly as she agrees to help the hotel
business by singing in their bar during the evenings. She and Rafa, the piano player, aka lawyer who
resigned from the family business, don’t really hit it off at first. Abbie seems to be flustered easily and really
doesn’t sing her best except when she performs songs from hits like Cabaret.
Rafa is a love ‘em and leave ‘em kind of guy and Abbie is obviously
leery about any relationship. Rocky road
indeed!
Here
is where the novel takes off like a jet and you’ll have to read it to enjoy the
quickly escalating complexities of what follows. Suffice to say a jealous and not so talented
singer decides to make some trouble, a “star” maker tries to get Rafa and Abbie
to a future together, Edward arrives with a bossy but penitent attitude, some
family problems erupt and much, much more!
While
the beginning of this swiftly paced story is rather slow, the remainder of it
leaps and bounds with different twists and turns. Abbie is a spunky character who’s not laying
down for long and Rafa is tantalizingly elusive to make the reader want to see
just how he’ll turn out.
Thanks for the Music is a rapid read that will please and
engage all romance fiction fans – would make a neat movie as well! Nicely crafted, Jennifer Young!
