Unfortunately, Perfect Tunes was a dud for me. I was intrigued by the description and the beginning started well, but I lost interest as the timeline jumped ahead without any context or content. I truly wanted to like this one, but it fell short for me. But neither her best friend, now a famous musician who relies on Laura’s songwriting skills, nor her depressed and searching daughter will let her give up on her dreams." Laura has built a stable life in Brooklyn that bears little resemblance to the one she envisioned when she left Ohio all those years ago, and she’s taken pains to close the door on what was and what might have been. Their time together is stormy and short-lived-but will reverberate for the rest of Laura’s life.įifteen years later, Laura’s teenage daughter, Marie, is asking questions about her father, questions that Laura does not want to answer. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she’s just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on the rise. "It’s the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City’s East Village in the hopes of recording her first album. I'll be curious to read what she publishes in the future (and I also want to add that I absolutely LOVE this cover design - the illustrator gets 5-stars from me!) I enjoyed watching Laura's relationship with her teenage daughter, Marie, develop throughout the course of the novel, and overall I think Emily Gould's writing definitely has a certain spark that has a lot of potential for growth and intrigue. That being said, PERFECT TUNES does have its merits. Nonetheless, while I think it's important to be critical when writing reviews, I like to focus more on the positives rather than negatives since my reasons for not liking a book do not dictate how others will react to it, and I hate to discourage readers from picking up a book simply because I didn't have an amazing experience with it. Maybe it's because the singer-songwriter-moves-to-NYC-to-pursue-their-dream trope is highly overdone in literary fiction at this point, but I felt that this book was just okay. While I enjoyed PERFECT TUNES for the most part, I do feel that it's not an entirely memorable read.
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