*Thank you to Netgalley and Simon & Schuster Canada for an eARC in exchange for an honest review*

I was pleasantly surprised by this book. I only knew it had to do with music and being set in Prince Edward Island, which I’ve never read a book set in PEI before (I haven’t read Anne of Green Gables).

I’ve only read one other book where music was somehow used (Ghost Wood Song), and I liked this one better! I’m not a music person but it was easy to understand when it was being described. Not to mention this book also has ghosts! I loved that aspect of it.

The plot itself felt flat in the first 80 pages, so it took me a while to power through this book. I was thinking of dnf-ing it (did-not-finish) but I am sure glad I didn’t! It picked up so fast from 80 pages onward.

The characters themselves, I loved them. Beet, Jeannine, Sean, Freddy, Deirdre. I think the best character development out of them all is Beet. She grew so much in this book, and it’s surprising at how short this book is (260 pages).

The setting: as a Canadian (living in Alberta) who has never visited PEI before (or the entire East side past Manitoba), the setting is described well! I think anyone who knows the basic that PEI is on the east coast of Canada would understand where everything is.

I took off a star only because the first 80 pages were slow, but that’s it!

I recommend this book to anyone who wants music, ghosts, and PEI all together in one book.