Bellweather Rhapsody, by Kate Racculia
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Winner of a 2015 Alex Award"Delightfully odd...A fine cast of misfits and dreamers and foes. A." —Entertainment Weekly “A deliciously dark confection of a novel, and one of the most thoroughly enjoyable books I’ve read in years.” —Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You “Warm, entertaining and thoughtful, and a glorious celebration of music.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune Fifteen years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it, Minnie Graves. Now hundreds of high school musicians have gathered at the Bellweather for the annual Statewide festival; Minnie has returned to face her demons; and a blizzard is threatening to trap them all inside. When a young prodigy disappears from infamous room 712, the search for her entwines an eccentric cast of conductors and caretakers, teenagers on the verge and adults haunted by memories. A genre-bending page-turner, full of playful nods to pop-culture classics from The Shining to Agatha Christie to Glee, Bellweather Rhapsody is a winning new novel from a writer to watch. “Funny and exuberant, twisty and captivating . . . For its darkness and its glee, I loved this novel.” — Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore “A rollicking story . . . Racculia’s exuberant voice inspires laugh-out-loud moments while also bringing to life broken people who find solace in each other’s heartaches.” — Wisconsin State Journal
Bellweather Rhapsody, by Kate Racculia- Amazon Sales Rank: #47462 in Books
- Brand: Racculia, Kate
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .88" w x 5.31" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
From Booklist Twelve-year-old Minnie Graves is not happy. Not only is she forced to be a bridesmaid at her big sister’s wedding but also her feet hurt and her dress itches. But there’s worse to come. Before the day is out, she will witness a murder-suicide. Flash-forward 15 years to the anniversary of the fatal incident and Minnie returns to the scene of the crime, the gracious old Bellweather Hotel. It’s a special weekend: the annual statewide music conference is being held there, which has brought teen twins Rabbit (real name Bert) and Alice Hatmaker to participate in the event. Also present is the eccentric Scottish conductor Fisher Brodie and the truly vile Viola Fabian, who is heading the conference. Before you can say plot point, Viola’s daughter, Jill, has vanished—after apparently committing suicide (it’s complicated). Whodunit? Well, it could be any of the above or perhaps the twins’ chaperone, Natalie Wilson, or even Harold Hastings, the hotel’s elderly concierge. That most of the characters have secrets adds a layer of intrigue to a musical mystery that strikes nary a false note. Encore, encore. --Michael Cart
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“Delightfully odd . . . Racculia, clearly a fan of Agatha Christie, stuffs the Bellweather with a fine cast of misfits and dreamers and foes . . . The pleasures of this great yarn are not just its full heart but its clever head. A” —Entertainment Weekly
“Warm, entertaining and thoughtful, and a glorious celebration of music . . . Fans of Racculia’s first book, This Must Be the Place, will recognize her quirky style and her great affection for her oddball characters.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune “A rollicking story . . . Racculia’s exuberant voice inspires laugh-out loud moments while also bringing to life broken people who find solace in each other’s heartaches . . . [Bellweather Rhapsody] hits all of the right notes for a darkly awesome summer read.” —Wisconsin State Journal
“An entertaining and enthralling yarn . . . This is the stuff that dreams and nightmares are made of: what one is willing to go through—or not go through—when you’re infused with a dazzling talent.” —PopMatters
“Bellweather Rhapsody is funny and exuberant, twisty and captivating. Racculia tells the truth here, about art and life and the many trajectories that talent can take. She’s also written the most resonant descriptions of music—how it really works in the head and the heart—that I’ve ever read. For its darkness and its glee, I loved this novel.” — Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore
“Witty and smartly moving, Kate Racculia’s Bellweather Rhapsody offers a heart-thumping mystery of music and murder, wherein the past repeats itself, and in doing so becomes malleable again: just as an orchestral score can be rearranged to new effect, so an unsolved crime sometimes returns to shock and surprise anew—and in both cases the outcomes are as unpredictable as they are suspenseful.” — Matt Bell, author of In the House upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods"[A] deft mix of horror, high school drama, locked-door mystery (or, rather, locked-hotel mystery), twin-seeking-twin closeness, adult (and teen!) romance, and some truly adult violence and guilt. At its heart, Bellweather Rhapsody as about talent: what it means to have it, what it means to lose it (if that’s possible), how on earth you’re supposed to wield a magic you can barely understand before you’re even old enough to drive, and what kind of adult you might turn out to be if you fail." —Book Riot
“This rich brew of a novel from Racculia (This Must Be the Place) mixes together murder, music, and eccentric humor. In 1982, in Clinton’s Kill, New York, a new bride murdered her husband, then killed herself, shortly after checking into Room 712 of the Bellweather Hotel. In 1997, high school drama queen Alice Hatmaker checks into the same room to perform at the Statewide music festival, along with her talented twin brother, Rabbit. Alice’s roommate is virtuoso flautist Jill Faccelli, whose overbearing mother, Viola Fabian, runs the festival. As a snow storm looms, Alice finds Jill hanged in one of the rooms. But when she returns with help, the body is missing, replaced by a note reading, ‘NOW SHE IS MINE.’ Only Minnie Graves, who witnessed the original murder-suicide when she was ten and has returned to the hotel as a young woman to confront her demons, believes Alice’s story. Together, she and Alice try to find out what happened to Jill. Racculia thus sets the stage for a novel of dueling wills, marked by textured characterization and an ebullient storytelling style.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
“Racculia (This Must Be the Place, 2010) delivers an experience worth rhapsodizing about as a group of teenagers and their adult chaperones descend upon a hotel in the Catskills for a statewide music festival . . . Racculia’s droll wit and keen understanding of human nature propel a story that’s rich in distinctive characters and wholly engaging. A gem.”— Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Part ghost story, part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, and part love sonnet to music, Racculia’s second novel (after This Must Be the Place) is dark and delightful, with memorable characters inspired by both literature and pop culture. It will grab readers and keep them with multilayered plotting and writing that ranges from humorous to poetic.” — Library Journal, starred review
“A musical mystery that strikes nary a false note. Encore, encore.” — Booklist
From the Inside Flap A high school music festival goes awry when a young prodigy disappears from the most infamous room in the Bellweather Hotel, in a whip-smart novel sparkling with dark and giddy humor.Fifteen years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it, Minnie Graves. Now hundreds of high school musicians, including quiet bassoonist Rabbit Hatmaker and his brassy diva twin, Alice, have gathered in its cavernous, crumbling halls for the annual Statewide festival; Minnie has returned to face her demons; and a colossal snowstorm is threatening to trap them all in the hotel. Then Alice’s roommate goes missing—from room 712. The search for her entwines an eccentric cast of characters: conductors and caretakers, failures and stars, teenagers on the verge and adults trapped in memories. For everyone has come to the Bellweather with a secret, and everyone is haunted.Bellweather Rhapsody is a genre-bending page-turner, full of knowing nods to pop culture classics from The Shining to Agatha Christie to Glee. But its pleasures are beautifully deepened by Kate Racculia’s skill with her characters, her melancholy, affecting writing about music, and her fearlessness about the loss and darkness that underlines the truest humor. This is a wholly winning new novel from a writer to watch.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Quirky mystery By Michelle Gallerani I think I read a review that said this book was an even mix of Agatha Christie, The Shining, and Glee, and that pretty much his the mail right on the head. I couldn't put this book down, but nothing was as it first seemed. This was a fun, quick read.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Okay, but in present tense--except where it isn't By Amy Goebel Padgett Overall, the story was intriguing and the author, Kate Racculia, has a real talent for characterization. You really get to know Minnie, Alice, Rabbit, and the others. They seem so real and vibrant that it is hard not to get caught up in their story and the mystery at the Bellweather hotel (shades of King's "The Shining" particularly in the first chapter). I particularly liked Hastings, or maybe just felt sorry for him. He's the concierge at the hotel and seems to suffer from the mysteries going on there more than any of the others.The plot has several threads running through it. It starts with Minnie, as a young girl, who is terrified to stumble into a suicide/murder taking place in room 712 at the Bellweather while she is acting as bridesmaid at a wedding. Rather ironically, a bride blows away the groom with a shotgun and then hangs herself. Rather The-Shining-like, if you know what I mean.Then, years later, a music conference for a bunch of teen-aged prodigies takes place at the hotel and one of them, a 14-year-old girl goes missing from...room 712. I guess we're supposed to care about the missing girl, but since no one else does, it's hard to work up any concern about her except in a voyeuristic, rubber-necking kind of way.I hate to repeat what others are saying, but the tone really is rather "Glee"-ish (if you've seen that show). I like black humor so it didn't really bother me and I enjoyed the bouncy, snarkiness, but it did make the mystery rather farcical rather than touching.The reason for the three stars rather than five was the writing (and to some degree, the ill-fitting tone/story/characters). The author alternates between present tense (for scenes in the "now") and more traditional past tense (for stuff in the past). On the surface, this sounds like a good idea, but in practice, it just didn't work for me. It kept throwing me out of the story and I didn't find it particularly well done. To a large degree, it meant there was a section of present tense, then a section of past tense, then some sections of both. The present tense sections felt amateurish, which seems to be a hallmark of the use of present tense. I also found the lack of concern about the missing girl to be kind of distressing as far as the story went and it was hard for me to feel any sense of tension because of it. The story meandered. And in fact, I had to push myself to finish the book.So overall, I was left with a shrug and feeling that the book was okay, but not something I'd ever read again.However, if you really like snarky teenagers and enjoy books that are more "artsy" and less concerned about the mystery than having fun with oddball characters, then you might find this to be just your cup of tea.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Great Read By Cynthia Quirky, smart, interesting cast of characters thrown into a zaney mystery. I would recommend to anyone who is a John Searles fan as well. Loved it!!! Cynthia
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