This is the 4th book from this author I’ve read and definitely my least favorite. The plot was not particularly interesting and neither were the characters. I feel like there were plenty of other interesting stories within the book that could have been the main plot and would have been more exciting. 

I love Emily St. John Mandel’s writing. She can write some devastatingly beautiful sentences and that remained true in this book. I almost felt like this story was a mash up of several different stories that didn’t quite fit together very well but were forced together anyway. The idea of the quartet was almost an afterthought, the music seemed so important, until it wasn’t. 

I did notice, that she included aspects of The Glass Hotel in this book, which I thought was an interesting touch.