The Song Reader

by Lisa Tucker
I haven't finished this book yet--in fact, I've barely started it--but it is such an incredible book I couldn't wait to blog about it. From the few chapters that I've read, I can already tell that it's going to be powerful, well-written, and probably make me cry. So far, it's about a girl, Leeann, who's mother is dead and father is MIA. She lives with her sister, Mary Beth, who is a song reader, that is, she analyzes songs people have had stuck in their head and can predict the future from them. Rereading that sentence, it sounds pretty cheesy, but the novel is also full of dark-sounding foreshadowing. I already can tell that something terrible is going to happen. According to the book jacket, Mary Beth is going to make a mistake when she's reading someone's songs. From the foreshadowing I've seen, it seems more like someone isn't going to follow her advice, and it's going to hurt her.
I have quite a few predictions about this book already. First is that the girls' dad is going to make a reappearance. He left them when Leeann was young, but it seems like he had a mental disorder of some kind that made him unstable. I'm getting the feeling that he's going to come back and complicate their lives. My second prediction is that something bad is going to happen, probably someone's death. The whole book so far has been these dark, foreboding hints at something terrible to come. I'm morbidly excited to see what it is.
~Marcella