Impossible Music by Sean Williams Book Review
Look, I just finished this and I still have NO idea what just happened. Everything just passed by my head and I barely can even recall the plot or anything. In fact, I was so lost that I thought Rain was another character instead of the main character's last name.
Whatever you say I'm blaming the fact that the book starts in the middle of the story and I had to piece things together, something I don't necessarily enjoy doing. I thought this book would've been more about music but didn't expect this to be more solely focused on deaf culture (which I have nothing against I just thought it'll be more music-y)
Basically, Simon who I realised was the main characters name about 100+ pages in (whoops) is a wannabe musician hoping to study music in university until one day he suffers from a stroke that leaves him deaf. He eventually takes counselling sessions and Auslan (sign language) classes to help cope with his newfound deafness. But Simon refuses to accept his deafness hoping to still become a musician regardless.
Even though I barely remembered anything even though I just finished it, I didn't mind Simon's character even though he was kind of described as irritable at the end. It was more G that I disliked and did not get their relationship. Maybe that's just me and maybe it was written before in the book but I somehow didn't pick up on it.
I did find it to be a great book to read in terms of discovering Auslan and seeing a book so heavily representing sign language and hearing loss that I did enjoy it despite not being my genre necessarily.
But all in all, I didn't stay focussed and the book didn't really excite me too much. It did make me want to learn Auslan though :D
ACTUAL RATING: 2.6 STARS
