Reviews with content warning for Addiction - Muses & Melodies

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Muses & Melodies by Rebecca Yarros

6 reviews

shellballenger's review

hopeful reflective fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.75

Type of read: Commuter Read.

What made me pick it up: Yarros sucked me in with the Empyrean series and I was looking for something else to read on my Spotify list. 'Muses & Melodies' was an easy click while I was commuting.

Overall rating: Predictable with a few surprise moments. Clearly, I finished this book in two days so it had to have something that kept me coming back. It was good. I liked the storyline, I liked that it showed the rehab of addiction in a realistic but positive light

and didn't include a relapse

, I liked the characters - no one was super cringe, and I liked the overall idea of 'Muses & Melodies. Maybe I was expecting something less surface-level and more gritty and involved. Either way, I'm not mad that I read it, but I'm not going to be searching out the other stories in the Hush Note lineup. I do think it's always nice when books like this can stand alone or be incorporated with their counterparts. I didn't feel I was missing out on anything not having read 'Lies & Lullabies' and 'Rifts & Refrains.'

I absolutely do not understand why Yarros chose to include the epilogue that included Nixon and Zoey having a child. For me, that completely goes against everything they were built up to be as characters. I know they never said kids were out of the question, but it seemed like it was playing way too much into the white picket fence, this is what we're supposed to be couple, instead of who they had grown to be and become as a couple.

Reader's Note: 'Muses & Melodies' includes themes of drug and alcohol abuse and addiction; rehabilitation; sex;

child abuse; and child death

Content Warnings