My Netgalley Review:
Going into this, I had no expectations. I knew that it was a mystery and that was it. The first part of the book had me wanting to put it down. I just didn't like the tone of Ray and he sounded very naive and juvenile. It had me asking why was there a lawsuit and when I got tired of waiting for the reasoning for it, the second part started. Which has to be my favorite part of the book because it is Ray's teen self of him in high school and wanting to play violin and his mom berating him and the only person who supports his love for music is his grandmother. There were some issues that I had and couldn't believe that the main characters didn't think of. Like, did Ray honestly think his family would be supportive after telling them that the violin was worth 10 million? How did he not think that his money hungry family wouldn't want to sell it. I don't even understand why the professor told the University in the first place. It was not any of their damn business. She even said that the University would want to profit off it. Not so smart and just plan stupid." That is like winning the billion dollar powerball and telling everyone surrounding you that you just won and not thinking about the consequences that would follow.
I was constantly annoyed by the constant naming of the music pieces that he played and the terminology and the speeds. I know nothing about classical music and instruments so I didn't care. Also, every white person that Ray encountered was "racist" and had blond hair blue eyes. The constant racism was hard to read especially the amount of times the author used the N word.
The way he constantly disobeyed the officer who was over his case and did everything she told him not to do was very juvenile and disrespectful. Overall I give this a 3 out of 5 stars and even though I struggled to pick this back up at times to read it, I am looking forward to the author's next book.
