Gavin Sasaki is a promising young journalist in New York City, until he's fired in disgrace following a series of unforgivable lapses in his work. ...
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Dec 29, 2011
Laura
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Ignore the hype - this is more of a novella that explores the relationships between five friends and their past/present selves than it is a mystery or suspense novel.
The Lola Quartet (named after the movie, not the song) is a group of four high school musicians: Jake, Daniel, Gavin and Sasha. They attended a high school for performing arts in Sebastian FL, and Anna was both Sasha's half-sister and Gavin's girlfriend. Shortly before Gavin's graduation, Anna disappears - her homelife More...
The Lola Quartet (named after the movie, not the song) is a group of four high school musicians: Jake, Daniel, Gavin and Sasha. They attended a high school for performing arts in Sebastian FL, and Anna was both Sasha's half-sister and Gavin's girlfriend. Shortly before Gavin's graduation, Anna disappears - her homelife More...
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Dec 02, 2011
Janet
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On Thanksgiving Day, I took an entire day off work and stayed in bed all day reading. It was heavenly, and I owe much of that happiness to Emily Mandel, who is three for three in my book. I adore her writing and was thrilled when she sent me an advanced copy of this newest book, The Lola Quartet.
The story itself is a fascinating one (and as someone who doesn't like for even the first chapter's contents to be revealed, I'll not give even the smallest spoilers!), but it's the way that More...
The story itself is a fascinating one (and as someone who doesn't like for even the first chapter's contents to be revealed, I'll not give even the smallest spoilers!), but it's the way that More...
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Dec 19, 2011
Diane
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Four friends, and a girl who is the girlfriend of one and the stepsister of the only female, start a jazz quartet in highschool. It is their last concert and their last year in high school and they all have bright plans for the future. I can relate to this because I remember being in that position, didn't like jazz much, but music was always around. Thought at 17 I was all grown up and the future was limitless. A decade passes and the group is brought together again by a picture, find out their
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Jan 01, 2012
Kris
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Emily St. John Mandel nails it with The Lola Quartet. She had me from page one, when Anna, a 15 year old with a new baby and $120,000 in cash which clearly does not belong to her goes on the run. I loved this tale about what not to do after high school. It's the story of four flawed members of a high school jazz band after they graduate, lose contact and disperse to follow their dreams,dreams which one by one melt away as they each struggle and falter in a world where doing the right thing is ne
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Feb 11, 2012
Natella
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My rating is actually 1/2 of 5 stars.
This was not a suspenseful mystery as it was described; instead it’s a drama examining a set of friends’ past and current lives. Between a runaway, theft, and a pregnancy kept secret- their connections to one another have become quite convoluted.
Had I realized quite how much emphasis was placed on the drama rather than the noir mystery aspect, I probably wouldn’t have chosen this book. As it was, I apathetically trudged through this book. More...
This was not a suspenseful mystery as it was described; instead it’s a drama examining a set of friends’ past and current lives. Between a runaway, theft, and a pregnancy kept secret- their connections to one another have become quite convoluted.
Had I realized quite how much emphasis was placed on the drama rather than the noir mystery aspect, I probably wouldn’t have chosen this book. As it was, I apathetically trudged through this book. More...
Oct 30, 2011
Jessilynn
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Emily St. John Mandel carves out a place for herself among the great suspense writers with her third novel, The Lola Quartet. Wrought with tension and intrigue, The Lola Quartet slowly dips the reader into a steamy underbelly of Florida crime. Secrets from the past, a crime gone wrong, and the loyalty of family motivate a complex cast of characters to make decisions they would not make under normal circumstances. But, in the world of Sebastian, Florida, things have gone so far from normal, it
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Jan 08, 2012
The Joy of Booking
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The Lola Quartet is a character study of the four members of a high school jazz quartet. Each member has struggled with life and the choices they’ve made since leaving the safe womb of a small town where they had real friendships and dreams of becoming great. The drama centers around Gavin, a member of the quartet, and his high school girlfriend Anna, younger sister to another member. Both Anna and Gavin are flawed characters, believable in their imperfection and with many layers to go through.
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Feb 21, 2012
Emily
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In her latest, Emily St. John Mandel shows how relationships formed in high school, so often fraught with drama, can ebb and flow and fade and come back to haunt you. Among her characters, the perception of what's important and the potential impact of actions varies widely, and something as tiny as a photograph can become riddled with layers and layers of meaning that may or may not exist, and that differ for each person who sees it. Her writing is taut, the characters well-wrought, and her cha
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Jan 20, 2012
Edan
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This was such a fun and riveting read, and like all of Emily St. John Mandel's books, the structure thrilled me. The way it's put together--wow, that takes some skills...
The beginning felt a bit stilted to me--some of the high school details seemed off (the prom is held after graduation--did I read that wrong?), and the reporter/newspaper scenes struck me as a touch familiar--but the book gets its legs soon after and just dances. I loved the eerie Florida landscape, part endless subu More...
The beginning felt a bit stilted to me--some of the high school details seemed off (the prom is held after graduation--did I read that wrong?), and the reporter/newspaper scenes struck me as a touch familiar--but the book gets its legs soon after and just dances. I loved the eerie Florida landscape, part endless subu More...
Dec 05, 2011
Kat
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I liked this, and there were moments of definite suspense and tension, but I wanted it to wander around a bit less.
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