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Good mix of personal essays and short stories—some of the short stories are eerie, some kind of sad, some just are.
Behind the Song is a Young Adult anthology of short stories inspired by music. There are fourteen stories in all, and while most of them are fictional, there are a couple that are nonfictional. I love creating my own personal soundtracks for favorite books, or even for my own writing playlists, so I was very excited about reading Behind the Song and listening to the different songs that inspire other writers.For the first twelve stories, I read the story after listening to the song that inspired...
*I received this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review* 3.5 starsI always request anthologies assuming I'm going to love them, but I usually don't. I specifically requested this one because I love music, yet there were so many songs here I didn't know, but for someone dedicated, I am sure that might be a good thing since they can explore new music. I was so SHOCKED to read a story inspired by 2NE1!!! That was the highlight for me -- although the tears that welled up threatened
https://thebookloversboudoir.wordpres...I loved the concept behind this collection, stories and essays inspired by music. Music is something that does speak to everyone and certain songs resonate more than others. Perhaps they remind us of a significant experience such as first love or someone who once met a lot to us. I enjoyed the essays more than the stories which surprised me. The essays were a mixed bag written by singers discussing their own music as well as writers inspired by specific so...
What an awesome Idea to pair music with short stories. We all feel more creative when we connect to our favorite music. So why not write down the stories that the music leads us to. This is exactly what an amazing group of YA authors and musicians have done. Starting a new story was like moving through your favorite song playlist on a lazy summer afternoon.
I'm giving this 3 stars only because the editing was so terrible and I had to regularly try to decipher words, hoping the finished copy is cleaner! Otherwise, 4 stars.What a great anthology!! The idea behind this anthology was music. Do you ever hear a song and picture the story the music is telling? Well this is an entire book of just that, short stories describing the songs. It features many, many authors and just as many musicians. Some stories are personal experiences (looking at you G. Love...
Full video review here!I was so excited to pick up Behind the Song but found myself disappointed with most of the short stories. I was expecting this anthology to not only have essays and short stories inspired by certain songs but that the theme in the stories itself would be music too and because that wasn't the case, I felt very underwhelmed by this overall.I found a lot of the short stories to be super absurd and weird. I wasn't expecting to get such a range of different stories without any
i wish this book had been more essays and less stories because a lot of the stories were reminiscent of what we in the fanfiction world call the "song fic" and unfortunately they had a similar cringe factor for me personally!
I liked the last three stories the most. I guess they saved the best ones for last. I didn't enjoy reading the personal essays.***SPOILERS***(song-story title)"Dancing Nancies"-"Anyone Other Than Me": A cute summertime camp story about a girl who lied about who she is. She and the camp owners' son ended up together in the end. It reminded me of the story about North by Stephenie Perkins in her two anthologies. "All the lights went out"-"Doomed?": Two best friends fall in love. Plot twist: They'r...
It's a mix of short stories and autobiographical pieces, so this collection is a real mixed bag. Some I didn't read. I felt that some of the fictional stories could have been shorter.I was hooked by the first story by David Arnold because his story is set in my hometown, but not the part I live in so it was sort of cool to see a story about Suburban Fort Worth.Anthony Breznican's "Miss Atomic Bomb" made my skin crawl. It kept the tension up well, but the threat to the girl and the ending made me...
The anthology is a mixed bag, with some stories and essays that are truly excellent and some that maybe miss their mark. Maybe more the latter than the former. I wonder about the choices of inspirational song for a YA novel - songs by The Eagles, The Killers, The Dave Matthews Band, Jimmy Eat World - as well as some of the content that springs from it. I know I shouldn't be too presumptive about the wants of an audience that isn't me, or pedantic about what young adult content should look like,
This was, unfortunately, a mess. The few good parts read like first drafts of better stories and the worst parts were just incoherent. The idea was fantastic, having authors write stories and essays based on a particular song of their choosing. I love that. But it felt like while teens were the target audience, several of the authors missed that mark. Overall, 2 stars because the idea behind the collection is great. But it needs some major editing, both in form and substance.
A series of short stories and essays written by young adult authors and inspired by songs they love or at least have very specific attachments to. Mostly I really enjoyed the sort of memoirish essays in which the authors talked about what certain songs meant to them at certain points in their lives. The short stories were a lot more hit and miss for me.
I wasn't familiar with some of the songs,but this collection was extremely interesting to me,both as an avid reader and an avid music fan. I especially loved the story "City Girl" by E.C. Myers. (I would love if he expanded on the story to make it novel-length,if not a trilogy). A definitely interesting collection.
