Strings

This was an enjoyable book which I read in one day. It is very well written and I think it would make a wonderful movie.

*3.5 Stars* I was provided a Reviewer Copy via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Ted, a woefully naive elitist who seems to be a violin prodigy (despite doing millions of other things in high school that would not equate to Juilliard unless he was a genius), falls in love with Olivia, a girl who is from a working-class background that has a voice of an angel and acting made of gold (and who also seems way too sensible to continue revolving her life around a guy who could not even fathom the problems she went through, and would not care were it not for her-- at least you never seem him doing anything philanthropic in the years interim); they do not really interact through their years in high school, and fall so irrevocably in love that it follows them throughout their lives-- to the point where everything and everyone, at least to Ted, is equated somehow to his lost high school love (they dated for half a year when he was seventeen and she was fifteen, it's obviously true love.) He acquires what seems to be the most priceless violin in the history of violins from her, and that reclamation makes him delve into his memories of his life with (and without) Olivia.