Book description
From Mia Dalia, author of Estate Sale, Smile so Red, and Tell Me a Story comes a new nightmare of rock and roll dreams and Faustian bargains.
Never settle for less.
Never stop dreaming.
Never meet your heroes.
Never bargain recklessly.
Play music like your soul is on fire.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Discordant as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Although this was a novella, not a novel, I have to put it as my 2nd-favorite book of 2022. When I read this, Mia Dalia was an author I wasn’t familiar with at all. Well, that has certainly changed!
Discordant is a supernatural tale of love, loss, and music set in the world of rock and roll. As a guitar player myself, this one hit really close to home, but you don’t need to be a musician to appreciate the rise and fall of a bar band musician and his desire to be so much more, even if it means…
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