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Written by Ilana C. Myer, Last Song Before Night tells a story about the power of music and art, where the main characters are all poets and singers. Unfortunately, it’s also marred by poor character development, cheap narrative devices, and a problematic ending.
The book aptly opens with a character hearing a piece of music, which seems curiously attached to a particular scent, bringing back some memories. In Last Song Before Night, music is more than its melody, harmony, and rhythm, more than a complex “sound”, it stimulates and mixes senses and has a strange power over the people. It’s often personified, being compared to a living, breathing entity: “in [...]