I read it avidly, but i won't say that i loved the reading of it. In retrospect, it was a string of beautiful passages abt music & what it means to be a dedicated musician/composer, connected together with flat characters who don't experience much growth. It's as if these characters‘ details are intended to make them complex (vitiligo, bisexuality, amputation of fingers) but it's all treated with the superficiality of an unfortunate haircut.