James is joined once again by Kari to discuss another book we both read--Black Hearts Boys' Choir--and this time they actually have the author--Curtis Lawson--along with, discussing his book, music, and going down various other rabbit trails, as per your usual M+B episode! Lucien Beaumont is a teenage misfit and musical prodigy ostracized by his peers and haunted by familial tragedy. When he discovers an unfinished song written by his dead father—a song that holds terrible power—Lucien becomes obsessed. As he chases after the secret nature of his father's music, the line between gruesome fantasy and real life violence begins to blur. To complete his father's work Lucien believes that he and his group of outcast friends must appease a demonic force trapped within the music with increasingly sadistic offerings. As things spiral out of control he finds that the cost of his art will be the lives of everyone around him, and perhaps his very soul...
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