This is often the case for Ray’s family, especially before anyone knows about the value of Ray’s violin.
With a big competition in the near future, which is emphasized as extremely important to Ray’s success, his emotional reactions are hard to justify without understanding the family history of his violin, which is not revealed until much later in the story.Īdditionally, at times the characters’ reactions do not seem appropriate for the situation at hand and instead only serve the purpose of creating suspense or adding drama. For instance, when Ray’s violin is stolen at the beginning of the novel, he is incredibly distraught and reluctant to play another violin in the meantime. However, the novel’s timeline occasionally produces an emotional disconnect between the reader and the characters. The inverted time structure also does much to keep the reader curious and engaged the start of the story introduces many questions that the rest of the novel sets out to answer.
He jumps from one incident to the next without confusion and navigates different settings to yield a captivating yet manageable pace. The narrative’s clear structure comes from Ray’s reasoning as he attempts to solve the violin mystery. From the start, readers know which of Ray’s relationships are strained, and which are positive ones with people he looks up to and admires. Luckily, the beginning of the story sets up the necessary context for his career and relationships, making these transitions seamless and easy to follow. The plot covers a great deal of temporal ground - readers follow Ray from his first violin gig in high school through college and into his professional career. Throughout the rest of the novel, Ray reflects on his career and the events leading up to the robbery, allowing readers to uncover the mystery of his past while he sorts out the issue at present. Brendan Slocumb’s debut novel “The Violin Conspiracy” begins near the story’s end: Rayquan “Ray” McMillan, a classical violin soloist, has just had his Stradivarius violin - an instrument valued at over 10 million dollars - stolen less than a month away from the most important competition of his life.
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