SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE is a beautiful, emotional, visceral, and—most of all—musical book. The prose just sings: Ben and Dom each have their own unique voice, hers wistful and his frenetic, and they intertwine in such an achingly gorgeous way.
I was dying to read this book because I'd heard it was structured after Beethoven's Kreutzer sonata for violin and piano, and even though it's not a piece I'm intimately familiar with I could almost hear the music as I read. Even though it's billed as a love story, it's not so much a typical romance as it is a love letter to following your passions, listening to your heart and falling in love with New York City...for the first time, or all over again. As a longtime New Yorker I found myself rediscovering the city through Dominique's eyes, and I even learned some cool NYC facts I'd never heard before (not going to spoil anything, but I listen to the subway in a whole new way now)!
This book explores some deep themes, and is deeper, tougher, and more real than your typical girl-meets-boy love-at-first-sight fairy-tale. It doesn't follow a traditional romance arc, but there is still beauty and redemption in spades. Highly recommended for anyone who loves music, New York, or lyrical writing about flawed but shimmering characters.
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Beautiful novel about fate, mental health issues and the arts
Thank you Edelweiss and Kids Can Press for this review copy of Someday, Somewhere by Lindsay Champion.Someday, Somewhere is a dual POV young adult novel about Dominique and Ben. Dominique is a 17 year old Trenton, New Jersey resident who works at her moms laundry mat, dreams of being a dancer and hangs out with her best friend Cass. Ben is a 20 year old violin prodigy at a private music college in New York City and lives with his family in a better part of Manhattan. After a chance meeting on a school field trip both characters are smitten and trying to create excuses to find each other again. Dominique finds herself trapped in a lie about who she is and where she’s from. Although the angst and stress about the constant money and clothing required to get Dominique from her rough neighborhood to Ben’s world is NYC is real for her the true tragedy is Ben’s rapidly unraveling mental state in his quest to be the best violinist in his school. Lindsay Champion does an excellent job through the pacing of his narrative showing his racing thoughts and frenetic pace.There is a lot of “good stuff” here for readers of all ages. The writer creates a beautiful friendship between Cass and Dominique’s and how the dream of a career in the arts is so far away for kids in impoverished areas. How fathers (like Dom’s) need to step up and support their teens even if it seems like their work is mostly done. And how the mental health challenges of high achieving and creative people can’t be ignored because it’s part of their “genius”.I hope as more time passes this novel gets the attention it deserves and I look forward to reading more from the author. I rate this 4.5 stars rounded up to 5 for Goodreads and Amazon.
