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I really wanted to like this book. I have been a big fan of Saving Francesca for quite a few years, and read and re-read the book multiple times. It was only the other week that I saw the author had done a sequel and I was pretty excited. But then I started reading it and I was a bit disappointed. In Saving Francesca I loved the budding romance that the author suggested was happening between Thomas and Tara, however The Piper’s Son lost that completely for me. For most of the book Tara wasn’t even around, and instead the book was filled with so many other characters that I had trouble keeping up with who was who (not to mention how many of them added anything valuable to the plot line other than to show what an angry arsehat Thomas could be at times). Francesca and Will also completely lost their appeal as a couple, and Justine seemed like she hadn’t developed as a person/character at all in the 5 years that had elapsed in their lives between the stories.

Overall whilst I was reading I kept waiting for something to actually happen, and it never did. Every time I thought something might be a good avenue for the story it either didn’t happen, or it did happen but it was so underwhelming to read. Most of the time the girls in the book couldn’t seem to stop crying about EVERY LITTLE THING. As a girl who is generally not big into crying about everything, some of the things that set the girls off in this book made me frustrated. Get it together girls!

The only thing that made me finish this book was the hope there would be a worthwhile ending. But mostly I think if you love Saving Francesca don’t bother reading The Piper’s Son. I couldn’t connect with any of the characters, which is saying something given how many there were in the book, and the storyline was pretty dull and not constructed very well.


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The Piper Son Marchetta Melina 9780670074235 Books Reviews

Oh. My. Stars. This book. Wow. Just... wow. It was painfully beautiful. Literally painful. It hurt my heart so much that I don't know if I can ever read it again. And yet, it was beautiful... the writing, the relationships, the healing. I want to read it again. How does Marchetta do it? The characters are so broken and the story could easily have become cliche and well.... drivel. It didn't. It was real and at times heartbreaking and hopeful and humorous and just so incredibly emotional. I'm fairly sure that I cried for each character at some point in the novel.

The story is mainly about Tom. His life has fallen apart since we last saw him in Saving Francesca. (Note If you've not read Saving Francesca you will not be lost in this book but it enhances the story. I would recommend reading it first.) Basically, at the story open, he has hit rock bottom and has no where to go. the piper's son follows Tom and various members of his family as they try to heal and move on from tragedies and hurts. It's told in the present as well as through memories and flashbacks. The characters are all incredibly flawed and do so many things that make you want to shake them yet you're rooting for them throughout the book.

I spent at least the first half of this book taking one hit after another to my heart. It got to the point where I almost didn't want to learn more about any of the characters because I loved them and knew that there was something that was going to blindside me and make me break for them. Then there were about 20 or so pages where I was laughing out loud and thinking, "Ah! Here is where it turns around." As we used to say in the 90s... NOT!
As I reread that I realize that it makes it sounds all doom and gloom-y. It's not. There are very funny parts. I love Tom and his crazy mixed up family and friends. They remind me of my own. Still, as I said before, Tom is at a very low point. As readers we go through that with him before the healing really starts. And the thing about healing? It can hurt too.

This was a beautiful story of life, love, healing and loyalty. Marchetta builds real, complex relationships. Not everything is tied up in a nice neat bow, but there is hope in the end.

A few of the random things I loved
*Music... it's important to many of the people in the story and I loved the way it was used.
*The names/insults Tom and his friends/family banter around.
*Tom's silly side... we don't see it all that often in the first 2/3 of the book but Tom can be very silly. Also, witty.
*The friendship between Francesca, Justine, Siobhan, and Tara.
* Seeing the crew from Saving Francesca a few years down the road. They're no longer teenagers.
4.5 Super Stars

Melina Marchette is the only author I’ve found that can break and squish my heart more times than I can count in a book and make me love every minute of it and ask for more. The stories she tells about families that are strong and loving but have been broken by a tragedy and are trying to pick up the pieces again draw you in to the point you never want to leave. The only thing wrong with this book is that it ended.

-- “But grieving people are selfish. They won’t let you comfort them and they say you don’t understand and they make you feel useless when all your life you’ve been functional to them.”

When you lose someone in an unexpected and sudden way it can affect everyone who knew that person it ripples and radiates out like a pebble throw on still water or more like a dozen pebbles each creating their own ripples that crisscross and distort as they touch one another. The Piper’s Son explores that from the perspective of two pebbles Tom and Georgie.

Georgie’s younger brother and Tom’s Uncle Joe died in a terrorist attack in London two years ago. Since then their lives have been turned upside down and inside out. This is the story of the point when everyone starts to put things back together.

-- “Love’s easy. It kind of comes with the territory. But liking is another story.”

I found so many great insightful lines about family and love. You always love your parents, spouse, kids and friends but sometimes it is really hard to like them, especially when grief is eating you inside. But for as many moments that are hard in this book there are all those others that are funny and hopeful and I spent the entire time rooting for Tom, "last bastion of patriarchal poor taste, arrested development and mental retardation" and Georgie. I rooted for people who would be the villain of another story. Sam, poor freaking Sam, who made a terrible mistake once upon a time. I see Sam and Georgie as a less funny version of Ross and Rachael from friends, but we were on a break, and I ache for Georgie to forgive him.

The way the story was pieced together with moments of the past and present added to the overall emotion I felt for the people involved. I liked Tom but I really connected with Georgie and loved her relationship to Tom. I really don’t want to give too much of the story away because Marchetta is infinitely better at telling a story than I am and I don’t want to diminish how this can affect you if you go into it blind.

I will say that I was so happy to get glimpses of the friends from Saving Francesca again. To see where everyone was at five years later and how most of their lives were still intertwined. Reading about Will and Francesca down the road really gave me warm fuzzy feelings.

-- “Come here,” she says.
“No, you come here.”
“I said it first.”
Rock paper scissors.”
“No. Because you’ll do nerdy calculations and work out what I chose the last six times and then you’ll win.”
Will pushes away from the table and his hand snakes out and he pulls her toward him and Tom figures that Will was always going to go to her first.”

Some of the banter between Tom, Justine and Francesca make me laugh out loud. True friends you can fall out of touch with for long periods of time sometimes and then just pick back up like almost no time has passed.

I got to the end of this and wanted more…so much more. Thank you to Danielle who told me that there will be another book about Jimmy that will eventually be done and set two years after this. I will forgive that there was no epilogue since the story of these people I’ve grown attached to will continue on otherwise I would have thrown a tantrum comparable only to Annabel Mackee.
I really wanted to like this book. I have been a big fan of Saving Francesca for quite a few years, and read and re-read the book multiple times. It was only the other week that I saw the author had done a sequel and I was pretty excited. But then I started reading it and I was a bit disappointed. In Saving Francesca I loved the budding romance that the author suggested was happening between Thomas and Tara, however The Piper’s Son lost that completely for me. For most of the book Tara wasn’t even around, and instead the book was filled with so many other characters that I had trouble keeping up with who was who (not to mention how many of them added anything valuable to the plot line other than to show what an angry arsehat Thomas could be at times). Francesca and Will also completely lost their appeal as a couple, and Justine seemed like she hadn’t developed as a person/character at all in the 5 years that had elapsed in their lives between the stories.

Overall whilst I was reading I kept waiting for something to actually happen, and it never did. Every time I thought something might be a good avenue for the story it either didn’t happen, or it did happen but it was so underwhelming to read. Most of the time the girls in the book couldn’t seem to stop crying about EVERY LITTLE THING. As a girl who is generally not big into crying about everything, some of the things that set the girls off in this book made me frustrated. Get it together girls!

The only thing that made me finish this book was the hope there would be a worthwhile ending. But mostly I think if you love Saving Francesca don’t bother reading The Piper’s Son. I couldn’t connect with any of the characters, which is saying something given how many there were in the book, and the storyline was pretty dull and not constructed very well.