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Melinda Morgan's Étude is a wonderful story about learning to live with tragedy, failed relationships, new friendships, believing the impossible and learning to love and trust again. I loved the way Melinda worked science and religion into a totally believable explanation of how her story's immortals came into being and why they are still here on earth. Certainly kept the sci fi lover in me turning the pages, even though, this is considered a YA paranormal romance and not a sci fi novel.

Beth had been an up and coming pianist with a full scholarship to her dream university until tragedy struck in the form of a deadly car accident, which killed her mother and left Beth's left hand crippled and burned. She and her father worked to pick up the pieces and when he was called away for a Special Ops assignment, Beth moved to Wyoming to live with her uncle Connor and his new wife. Since she missed so much of her senior year of high school, she was forced to repeat it and this is where the story begins.

All of the characters were well developed and well rounded. Beth seemed just that little bit more mature than her classmates which may be because she is a year older and has been through some trauma that also matured her. Her uncle Connor doesn't treat her like a child, but does lay down the law when it comes to protecting her.

Jonathon, Beth's love interest, is kind and gentle, (and a fantastic pianist in his own right), with that mysterious way about him that draws Beth in and has her falling completely in love with him. I don't remember if his age was ever stated, but he is much more mature than his young looks would have Beth believe. Their love is passionate without the sex, though they definitely do want to explore that part of their relationship, but only when the time is right.

Eric is a young star football player who develops a school-boy crush on Beth even when she has made it plain that she sees him as nothing more than a friend, especially since he used to date her new best friend, Darla. The scenes with Eric were the most heart-wrenching I have read in a long time. He made mistakes and couldn't take them back and his comments are so real and so true.

Carl, Beth's cousin is one man I would love to read much more about in the next two books. Both Jonathon and Carl are the type of men who are fun, kind and caring with a bit of a bad boy side...Carl is living his bad boy-ness right now where Jonathon's seemed to have happened sometime in his past.

Melinda Morgan's rich detail kept me turning the pages as she dropped little hints and clues here and there of the supernatural and how it intertwines with Beth's world. The story is full of music and how it evokes emotions and had me hitting up youtube to hear the études as I read. I would certainly love to hear "Eleanor's Theme" as Melinda heard it! Blossoming love, evil beings and gruesome battles to the death, time traveling...yes, this story left me with lots of unanswered questions which I'm sure will be answered in the next two books. Even though Étude is considered a YA paranormal romance genre, I believe a much more mature audience would enjoy reading it.


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Étude The Birthright Legacy Melinda R Morgan 9781600650109 Books Reviews

I just finished reading this book for the third time. Each time I read it, I find something new to think about. That rarely happens when I read a young adult novel. The characters in Melinda Morgan's story are not the typical characters one always finds in a YA novel. Let me back up by stating that yes, there is the troubled girl in search of answers, the supernatural boy that charms her, the best friend who is kind of different, and your typical comic relief character (missing in many YA books). However, in Morgan's book, each character has a life that is separate from the character's, and each could spin off a book all their own. In most YA books the secondary characters exist primarily to drive the plot of the story. In Etude, the main character seems to "jump into" the secondary character's lives with real-life interactions that are unique to the character and separate from the main thrust of the story. In my opinion, this gives the book much more depth and complexity.

The heroine of the book is interesting. In most YA books, if the main character is female, she is either annoyingly needy, or so far the opposite way that it makes the story unrealistic. In Morgan's book, the main character, Beth, is neither of these. She is real. She could be any average teenage girl with average or above average intelligence. Her world is turned upside down when a car accident cripples her hand---giving our main character a disability makes her identifiable on many levels. Girls reading the book will automatically substitute Beth's disability/disfigurement for whatever the reader may perceive as a flaw in themselves. The reader will learn through Beth that their own shortcomings do not need to define them, but rather can serve to make them stronger individuals. I loved Beth's sense of humor and her struggle to come to terms with the loss of her dream to become a concert pianist. I also found it refreshing, I repeat, refreshing! that when Beth faced the villian in the climax, she did it in a way that did not seem contrived. I want to say more here, but don't want to spoil the story for those who haven't read the book yet.

The connection between science and religion was also unique. Morgan tries, perhaps too hard at times, to build an argument that supports both faith and science as theories of creation. Beth explores both, but doesn't come to any real decision. I am curious to see if Morgan pursues this in the sequel.

One of my favorite parts of the book was the connection to classical music. I'm not certain exactly, but it feels as though the music motif exists as a form of symbolism. I have played with several possibilities as to what Morgan might have had in mind with the music. I'll be disappointed if this is left undeveloped in future installments of the book.

Can't complete my review without a word for two characters who I equally adore Jonathan and Carl. They would make a great team if I were watching a TV series. They both have a great sense of humor, although Jonathan seems the more reserved of the two. I hope Carl will continue to play a significant role in the future.

I am looking forward with great expectations for the second book. I have no idea where the story will go from here, but that's just another aspect of the book that made it such a refreshing read.

I highly recommend this book to any age reader who is looking for a book where they can fall in love with the characters and a story that will leave you inspired and wanting more.
Etude begins as a pretty straightforward tale of a girl named Beth who lost both her mother and her ability to play the piano in a tragic accident. Beth subsequently goes to live with her uncle when her father is deployed, and there she meets a young man who helps her find her way back to her music, albeit not as a fully functioning pianist. Sweet story so far, right? At that point, Etude takes a sudden and completely unexpected left turn into the supernatural. What follows is an engrossing, well written and original tale, one which involves neither vampires nor werewolves but does introduce some extremely scary bad guys.

I disagree with another reviewer's theory that the music angle is meant to be symbolic. I think it is quite simply meant to convey Beth's all-consuming passion for the piano and her grief over the loss of her ability to play. I also appreciate the fact that the author is a pianist herself and can therefore accurately represent Beth's individual interpretation of various pieces of music and the fact that such interpretation often differs from one person to the next. Congratulations to Melinda Morgan on a terrific first novel. I will be waiting impatiently for the sequel!
Melinda Morgan's Étude is a wonderful story about learning to live with tragedy, failed relationships, new friendships, believing the impossible and learning to love and trust again. I loved the way Melinda worked science and religion into a totally believable explanation of how her story's immortals came into being and why they are still here on earth. Certainly kept the sci fi lover in me turning the pages, even though, this is considered a YA paranormal romance and not a sci fi novel.

Beth had been an up and coming pianist with a full scholarship to her dream university until tragedy struck in the form of a deadly car accident, which killed her mother and left Beth's left hand crippled and burned. She and her father worked to pick up the pieces and when he was called away for a Special Ops assignment, Beth moved to Wyoming to live with her uncle Connor and his new wife. Since she missed so much of her senior year of high school, she was forced to repeat it and this is where the story begins.

All of the characters were well developed and well rounded. Beth seemed just that little bit more mature than her classmates which may be because she is a year older and has been through some trauma that also matured her. Her uncle Connor doesn't treat her like a child, but does lay down the law when it comes to protecting her.

Jonathon, Beth's love interest, is kind and gentle, (and a fantastic pianist in his own right), with that mysterious way about him that draws Beth in and has her falling completely in love with him. I don't remember if his age was ever stated, but he is much more mature than his young looks would have Beth believe. Their love is passionate without the sex, though they definitely do want to explore that part of their relationship, but only when the time is right.

Eric is a young star football player who develops a school-boy crush on Beth even when she has made it plain that she sees him as nothing more than a friend, especially since he used to date her new best friend, Darla. The scenes with Eric were the most heart-wrenching I have read in a long time. He made mistakes and couldn't take them back and his comments are so real and so true.

Carl, Beth's cousin is one man I would love to read much more about in the next two books. Both Jonathon and Carl are the type of men who are fun, kind and caring with a bit of a bad boy side...Carl is living his bad boy-ness right now where Jonathon's seemed to have happened sometime in his past.

Melinda Morgan's rich detail kept me turning the pages as she dropped little hints and clues here and there of the supernatural and how it intertwines with Beth's world. The story is full of music and how it evokes emotions and had me hitting up youtube to hear the études as I read. I would certainly love to hear "Eleanor's Theme" as Melinda heard it! Blossoming love, evil beings and gruesome battles to the death, time traveling...yes, this story left me with lots of unanswered questions which I'm sure will be answered in the next two books. Even though Étude is considered a YA paranormal romance genre, I believe a much more mature audience would enjoy reading it.