I haven’t finished Nick Hornby’s Juliet, Naked yet and when he is not writing about music it isn’t the worst novel I’ve ever read but when Nick is writing about music it is insanely terrible.
When I get to the end I will write a full review but for now I am gonna give all of you potential music loving novelists a clue as to what not to do when you are writing a musical novel.
Don’t write about a Grammy nominated rock star who quit music after releasing his masterpiece Juliet. Don’t have said songw-rtiters album appear on top ten of all lists all the time. Don’t claim he has disappeared off the scene and no one knows what happened to him. And, finally don’t have him actually be living in Philadelphia with a wife and child, four other children from previous marriages, and claim his wearabouts are a mystery.
Don’t do any of the above because nobody with half a brain will believe your story.
You can have a hole in your plot but you can’t have your plot be a hole.