The Music of Women by Vincent Panettiere
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Charlie Forte, a well-to-do novelist, has just received his biggest advance yet. However, he is riddled with self-doubt and wallows in his depression so much that he is determined to kill himself. He is ultimately thwarted by a stone wall and the siren song of women.
While well written in both description and pacing, I found the main character Charlie to get tiresome around the middle of the book. His almost petulant ways in which he handles the various relationships in this story were not endearing as he had no true character growth by the end. The problem with reflective novels is always that they can either resonate or not and for me, this book was a big miss.


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