June 2026 Book Discussion - The violin conspiracy by Brendan Slocumb

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Hi everyone! welcome to June's Book Club Discussion thread!!
This thread will remain open even after we finish reading the current book, so everyone who wants to add any opinions can do so at her leisure.
1. To avoid spoilers, remember to click on the three dots

2. choose "inline spoiler," and start typing your text. To me it shows up like a mask icon, but as well can show like an eye with a line through it.

As all of you know, in this thread we can discuss anything about the current book. Please feel free to share your thoughts while you are reading or whenever you want, or as you progress in your reading, it's up to you, this thread is yours, so express all what you think about the book and reading. You can write parts of the text you're reading, and that you think are important to understand the plot, comment on what you think of all what you have reading so far, whether the author is easy or difficult to understand and follow?, how the plot and characters develop to your mind?, and if there's a quote you'd like to share, please do it.

Once again welcome, I hope several of you will choose to join us!

 

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I started this but it didn't grab my attention. I might pick it back up but I'm not totally sure yet.

 

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I would be willing to read more of this authors books. Giving it possibly 3 and a half stars. Felt it was not quite good enough for 4 stars.

I guessed the "who did it" early on in the book and when the story went back in time I wanted to see if I was correct but the story writer did not give anything away in the way that Nicole met Ray. The mother was a strange one in a sense but she was raising two other children so it was understandable she wanted Ray to work to earn money to help with funds. The racism was well presented in the story and it so sad that it happened and is still happening at times in different parts of our world. The cruelty of the slave owners revealed more than I had read of before.

 

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Thank you so much for sharing your comments dear Anne-Marie @A-M

 

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I started this but it didn't grab my attention. I might pick it back up but I'm not totally sure yet.

I read this book few months ago, and it didn't caught my attention never, so maybe you'd try the another book, The borrowed life of Frederick Fife, I'm reading it, and so far has caught my attention, and I'm enjoying it.

 

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Officially passing on this one
I was a bit interested in the plot, but not enough to continue. If any of you read it, let us know how it ended Of course wrap it in Spoiler tags just in case someone is currently reading it.