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With echoes of The Night Circus, a spellbinding story about two gifted orphans in love with each other since they can remember whose childhood talents allow them to rewrite their future.
The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with the power of legend. An unparalleled tale of charismatic pianos, invisible dance partners, radicalized chorus girls, drug-addicted musicians, brooding clowns, and an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss. In a landscape like this, it takes great creative gifts to thwart one’s origins. It might also take true love.
Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. Before long, their talents emerge: Pierrot is a piano prodigy; Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. As they travel around the city performing clown routines, the children fall in love with each other and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen.
Separated as teenagers, sent off to work as servants during the Great Depression, both descend into the city’s underworld, dabbling in sex, drugs and theft in order to survive. But when Rose and Pierrot finally reunite beneath the snowflakes after years of searching and desperate poverty the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed, and they’ll go to extreme lengths to make them come true. Soon, Rose, Pierrot and their troupe of clowns and chorus girls have hit New York, commanding the stage as well as the alleys, and neither the theater nor the underworld will ever look the same.
With her musical language and extravagantly realized world, Heather O’Neill enchants us with a novel so magical there is no escaping its spell.
My thoughts:
I thoroughly enjoyed this strangely addictive book. My review will be posted very soon. Do come back and check it out.
Enjoy your weekend! Hope you get plenty of reading done. Maybe a little bit of sun, too.
Luv Sassy
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Sounds interesting. It is a new book for me. I am reading The Hunting Grounds by Katee Robert this week. Happy reading!
Thanks, Kathy!
I can see how this book would be addictive. Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.
You’re welcome!
That writing pulls you right in. Not my normal reading but I find wonderful authors by reading out of the box.
My Friday 56 from Exile For Dreamers
This sounds like a good book. I can’t wait to see what you think of it.
This sounds very intriguing! Thanks for sharing and visiting my blog! Happy reading! 🙂
I have been eyeing this one for a little while now. I am even more excited after reading your quotes! Thanks so much for sharing this one. 🙂
Sounds like a wonderful read! Happy weekend! xo
Ok! Adding to my TBR right now!!! and the cover is just beautiful! Thanks for sharing! Happy Reading!
That cover is so enchanting and I love the sound of this one so much. Thank you for introducing me. I will have to check it out!
I really liked the excerpts, and that cover is beautiful! Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Oh Genni, just found your comment in spam, so sorry x
Oh my gosh, I know I’m late to this party, but this book sounds AMAZING. I’ll be back to check out your review. Thanks for the visit.