Melody’s key is a Love story of Tegan
(who is later, Named as Tegan Melody Lockwood) and Mason Keane. Both share same
passion for Music & they write songs of their own & play piano, guitar
with equal amount of interest. Mason a pop star of high acclaim & fan
following comes to stay in the Lockwood manor maintained by Tegan’s family.
Tegan’s hobbies like painting, drawing, reading, music & art fetches her the
love-life.
“Good shepherd, tell this youth what
’tis to love,
It is to be all made of sighs and
tears;-
It is to be all made of faith and
service;-
It is to be all made of fantasy,
All made of passion, and all made of
wishes;
All adoration, duty, and observance,
All humbleness, all patience, and
impatience,
All purity, all trial, all
observance”
(This from ACT V of Comedy of Errors
by Shakespeare)
Author Dallas Coryell‘s Hero Mason
sticks to the above said description of LOVE. Testimony to this comes in the
form of returning the KEY to Tegan, Releasing their home from the Mortgage loan
& handing it over to their parents & regaining the Tegan’s scholarship.
This novel focuses on the impact of
financial crisis, which leads the entire family in the autumn season to work in
various sphere to meet their ends. Author’s point about the debt, I quote “The
debt has always been this evil beast, waiting in the shadows, forever
stalking…. Waiting to strike and take everything away.”
Giving priority to the family is a
special feature of this novel. Family that eats together, stays together is
justified in a very fine tune. Tegan drops out of her education because of the
family difficulties. Parents too don’t reveal their debts so as not to disturb
their children’s lives. This shows the care & parenting expertise of
Mr&Mrs. Lockwood.
Food & Music are part &
parcel of this novel. Detailing the preparation of pancakes with different
flavours & toppings fulfilling everyone’s needs is a noteworthy point.
Music takes a prime place in the novel and songs too are pleasant to read. The
Kiss, Blue oceans, Into You, Don’t say Good Bye, Soul of my Soul are the song
in the novel.
Prominently, celebrities’ lives are
thought as more lavishing & grand, never thought about their darker side,
many misunderstanding envelope them & they lead more stressful life. Tegan
was also in the same mind set like many people & felt happy to come out of
the perspective, I quote “Tegan was grateful for the darkness and distraction
of the walk, which allowed her to conceal the mist forming in her eyes.” She gets clear about Mason.
Author Dallas Coryell is a musician
living in Michigan, USA and his work ‘Melody’s key’ is a romantic fiction. KEY
in this novel is a symbol of support, energy & positivity to the heroine
Tegan. This key discloses her the earlier life of her grandparents, Letters are
the major communication in those days, if not destroyed, they expose the
secret. Likewise Tegan read those letters and came to know about their love
life. Author is successful in bringing out the deep sense of love &
sacrifice of violet Patterson.
Melody’s key opens up the Romance in Lymington in about 21
chapters and moves rhythmically with appropriate titles for each chapter.
(This Book Review is done on an email request from the Author)
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