Review: Music of the Night
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 4, 2013
Savannah Marshal is a gifted flautist and daughter of a famous opera singer but that is a secret that Savannah cannot disclose if she wants to make it into the elite New England Conservatory of Music.Gregory Fitzgerald, professor of the Conservatory and renowned cellist and a member of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.  He is dark, broody and reclusive and laser fixed on his career and no time for romance. They meet for the first time when she auditions for the Conservatory.Eight minutes and forty nine seconds. That's all it took to seal her life for the next four years and to secure the rest of her life. Standing in from of the most pivotal panel that she would ever face , she knew she had nailed it as soon as she met Gregory Fitzerald's eyes.  She was in.Gregory is rigid and driven to excellence clashes constantly with Savannah. Their views on music are so different and he finds it difficult to deal with a free sprit who is determined to breathe new life into old music - keeping it alive, moving and fluid.Eventually they are driven apart, Gregory marries and Savannah continues with her life and her music.Nocturne deals with a lot of issues - friendship, unrequited love and infidelity.  Yes infidelity sucks but I thought in Gregory's case it was a bigger lemon. I questioned the reason why he would you marry someone he didn't love especially when he was clear about the path he was taking? He had devoted his life to music, it took priority over women. In fact it priority over everything and it was clear from the beginning he didn't love Karin so why did he do it? Because she wouldn't complicate "things" and wouldn't interfere with his life but because he wouldn't admit to anyone that when he married Karin he imagined he was really with Savannah. Ultimately he cheated on himself and his true feelings for Savannah.Karin also lied to him.  Yes she thought she loved him but tried to keep him by getting pregnant when she knew he didn't want children. So she also cheated. Isn't marriage meant to be about love and respect and it was clear that neither Gregory or Karin felt this way during their marriage.So despite the fact that they "shouldn't do it" and they both knew they should not give into "it" they did.  He gave into the woman who understood him on many different levels. The woman that he had hurt badly, walked away from and the woman that he had lost because he didn't fight for her.So how does this end? He had pledged his life to another woman, his eternity to someone else? Do they get their HEA or was their music not only their beginning but their end? Read it and find out -you wont be disappointed.An exceptional well delivered book from Charles Sheehan Miles and Andrea Randall.  I hope they continue their writing collaboration..