Fairest attempts to bring song to print and lost me in the translation.

This is one of those books that I wanted to like but was unable to involve myself in the story because of the entanglement of songs written into the plot. Trying to imagine the songs being sung and creating a melody from nothing brought me out of the story and into my head. This bothered me especially because song is such a major element of the world that Levine is trying to build that this disturbance is ever present throughout the book.

In the moments I was truly involved in the story I found the plot, the characters and the message being told to be intriguing and well written. It was these sections that made me read on to finish the entire book, but my problems with the incorporated music is what stayed with me in the end.

Overall I do want to return to Fairest at some point and give it a second chance, only this time it will have to be an audio book instead.