#THE SONGBOOK OF BENNY LAMENT TV#

you know like love is patient, love is kind stuff? Its all about faith and trusting the other. The relationship between Camila and Billy – is like the Biblical Love. As this book is in interview format you can see how the change in Billy’s behaviour affects his brother and his bandmates. Billy Dunne comes off as this controlling lead singer who takes pride in the music he writes and never lets the band go from his track. The interview goes on about how The Six were formed and the band members start narrating the rest of the story – the drugs, the women, the heartbreak and everything in between. The first few chapters are told in parallel about Daisy growing up in L.A with absentee parents and brothers Billy and Graham Dunne forming their own musical band. From the 1970’s.įair warning, continue, if you have already read the book! Ever! And I was crying over a fictional band. And I was crying !!! So much of Ugly crying. I mean, I never cared about Rock n Roll bands.

When I finished listening to this book, it was freaking 2am. So this post is not exactly a review, but an outlet for my gushing emotions whenever I think about this book. Probably why everyone feels that way about this book is its unique form of story telling – it’s completely written through interviews. But certain books strike so real that you can find it really hard to believe that the characters didn’t exist in real life. This book is the best-est that I read last year and it obviously made it to my most favourite books list.Įvery book out there is mostly a piece of fiction, that’s common knowledge. I CAN’T GET OVER THIS BOOK EVEN AFTER MONTHS!!!!

Stories of interracial couple ought to be told, fictional or real.

#THE SONGBOOK OF BENNY LAMENT TV#

Overall its a beautiful story that has to be read and also good enough for TV as well. The perfect way to describe how I felt about the book, using a quote from book itself.Īll I know is that I fell in love very. I was easily able to guess the suspense that was a part of the story, so that fell flat too. The forbidden romance should have pulled all the strings but as much as the lyrics to the songs they write enamoured me, the chemistry wasn’t enough ?! The actual chemistry between Esther and Benny. The World building – loved the near perfect depiction of the 1960’s world – with a side of mafia and racism portrayed to the T. I also loved the entire process of making a song and how Benny flawlessly puts in words and together with Esther, he creates magic. I loved the father-son relationship however rocky and complicated it might be. Because Esther is a woman of colour and this is the 1960’s and added to the mixture are some secrets that threaten their lives. Benny and Esther join hands together to make music and turn up a revolution instead. When his estranged father takes him to watch Esther Mine singing in a nondescript club, Benny is hooked to her voice and couldn’t deny the hold it has on him. He wants nothing to do with them and makes his own life through music and becomes reasonably popular for all the songs he writes for famous musicians. Like a preview and the actual play.īenny’s family are part of the Italian mafia and he shares some complicated relationship with his father and his mobster uncle. The writing was amazing and the way the story is told through interview snippets and in-detailed POV made it interesting. This book has interracial romance, Italian mafia and the 1960’s music scene all etched in perfect detail and imagery but it lacked a little bit of angst, that punch I felt with Daisy Jones. When I read the synopsis as well as the first few chapters, it sort of gave me a Daisy Jones & the Six vibe and since its one of my favourite books, I had huge expectations for this one. The Songbook of Benny Lament is written alternatively in first person POV as narrated by Benny Lament and his radio interview from the The Barry Gray Show.

The songbook of benny lament