Signal to Noise (Audible Audio Edition) Silvia MorenoGarcia Ana Bayat Audible Studios Books
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Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mix tape.
Meche, awkward and 15, has two equally unhip friends - Sebastian and Daniela - and a whole lot of vinyl records to keep her company. When she discovers how to cast spells using music, the future looks brighter for the trio. The three friends will piece together their broken families, change their status as non-entities, and maybe even find love.
Mexico City, 2009 Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns alone for her estranged father's funeral.
It's hard enough to cope with her family, but then she runs into Sebastian, reviving memories from a childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? What precipitated the bitter falling out with her father? Is there any magic left?
Signal to Noise (Audible Audio Edition) Silvia MorenoGarcia Ana Bayat Audible Studios Books
I'm giving this novel five stars because, although I expected to like it and to find it well-written, I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. It took me by surprise, and I like (most) surprises.The jacket copy tells you what you need to know about the story and its interlocking timelines in the late 1980s and 2009. What struck me most about this tale of music and magic was Moreno-Garcia's own ability to conjure. I have never been to Mexico City, yet somehow, in prose that is almost spare and never purple, she pulled off the trick of making the place seem simultaneously familiar and new. Familiar in the sense that I easily experienced it as her characters do, as the landscape of home and school and everyday life, and new in the sense that the environment felt fresh, unused-up by layers of other stories, a place where anything could happen, and where the music I listened to in 1989 bumped up against Mexican music I'd never heard but felt, from context, that I understood. (I loved the evocation of the physical aspects of music in the late 80s: albums, a Walkman. I still have a drawer full of mix-tapes from that era.)
Something similar happens with the characters. As teenagers who are outsiders and yearn to be insiders, they navigate the familiar terrain of the coming-of-age story, realized with pitch-perfect accuracy; at the same time, they discover and are forever changed by something marvelous and unique. Although we experience several points of view, the main character, and the heart of the story, is Meche. She is smart, obsessed with music, struggling with family and feelings, crackling with energy. She is also, at times, vengeful, mean, and manipulative. A complex character, in short, and one whose fate mattered to me. Some of my favorite parts of the book were the conversations of Meche and her two friends when they were just hanging out: these exchanges were seemingly aimless, always revealing, often funny. Like teenagers.
SIGNAL TO NOISE is not epic or world-spanning. It's the story of a handful of people, a wild magic, and the unpredictable alchemy of time. Moreno-Garcia tells that story beautifully.
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Signal to Noise (Audible Audio Edition) Silvia MorenoGarcia Ana Bayat Audible Studios Books Reviews
I enjoyed Signal to Noise. I liked the Mexico City setting, and the school and home lives of the main characters felt very real. Music, a common interest of the characters and the basis for the book’s magic system, was employed quite effectively. I really liked the way that the writer used magic. It was subtle, so the caster could never be sure if it worked or if the intended effect occurred due to mere coincidence. I also liked the main character’s grandmother. She came from a rural community where the existence of magic was known well, and warned that using magic led only to sadness. The author is also skilled at depicting interpersonal relationships.
I do have to say that I disliked the protagonist enough to deduct a start from the review. I realize that she had some serious family issues and was an angry young woman, but she just didn’t seem likeable in any way. Sympathetic because of her bad family life? Yes. Likeable? No. In fact, she seemed a bit cruel and her friends seemed to be mere convenience to her. She also didn’t seem to learn from her experiences. If anything, she seemed a harder, more lonely person when the story ended. Of course, maybe the whole point of the story was the damaging nature of magic in the story’s world.
A potential reader should also know that this is not any sort of action/adventure story. This has nothing to do with my rating, but don’t pick this up expecting a dangerous urban fantasy. Just FYI.
I wasn't sure what to expect when I bought this book. It had been recommended to me for a while, so I picked it up not knowing what it was about. "Signal to Noise" is about a woman who is returning to her childhood home of Mexico City for her father's funeral, and to all the memories she left behind. The book jumps between present day and her teenage self in the 1980s. It is sort of a coming of age novel, but the woman in question is in her thirties. She had a lot of unresolved issues with her parents and her friends, who she meets again as an adult. The main character, Meche, is complicated and can be quite obnoxious. The teenagers discover magic and Meche takes things much too far.
This book was steady paced and well written. It flowed well and kept my attention. I am looking forward to reading more from this author.
What a wonderful, nostalgia-filled ride. Just like Meche, I was a teenager in the 80's and, also like her, music was a big part of my life. All the songs she loves, I loved, and I hadn't heard them or thought about them in decades. Reading about this music made me remember being 15 and singing along with my walkman. I loved the magical realism, the way the story weaves what happened in 1988, when Meche was 15 and hanging out with her friend Sebastian; and what's happening in 2009, when Meche comes back for her father's funeral after a big fight with Sebastian. What tore them apart is not clear until the end. Meche is not really likable, not only as a teenager but also when she's older. Still, she is strong and damaged, so I was rooting for her. The rest of the characters were also well developed. I'm not sure if someone who doesn't know Spanish songs will get such strong feelings from this story (Duncan Dhu's is a big part of the plot and, unless you know this Spanish band, it will probably go over your head). I'd still recommend it to anyone who was ever a teenager who loved music.
I'm giving this novel five stars because, although I expected to like it and to find it well-written, I didn't expect to like it as much as I did. It took me by surprise, and I like (most) surprises.
The jacket copy tells you what you need to know about the story and its interlocking timelines in the late 1980s and 2009. What struck me most about this tale of music and magic was Moreno-Garcia's own ability to conjure. I have never been to Mexico City, yet somehow, in prose that is almost spare and never purple, she pulled off the trick of making the place seem simultaneously familiar and new. Familiar in the sense that I easily experienced it as her characters do, as the landscape of home and school and everyday life, and new in the sense that the environment felt fresh, unused-up by layers of other stories, a place where anything could happen, and where the music I listened to in 1989 bumped up against Mexican music I'd never heard but felt, from context, that I understood. (I loved the evocation of the physical aspects of music in the late 80s albums, a Walkman. I still have a drawer full of mix-tapes from that era.)
Something similar happens with the characters. As teenagers who are outsiders and yearn to be insiders, they navigate the familiar terrain of the coming-of-age story, realized with pitch-perfect accuracy; at the same time, they discover and are forever changed by something marvelous and unique. Although we experience several points of view, the main character, and the heart of the story, is Meche. She is smart, obsessed with music, struggling with family and feelings, crackling with energy. She is also, at times, vengeful, mean, and manipulative. A complex character, in short, and one whose fate mattered to me. Some of my favorite parts of the book were the conversations of Meche and her two friends when they were just hanging out these exchanges were seemingly aimless, always revealing, often funny. Like teenagers.
SIGNAL TO NOISE is not epic or world-spanning. It's the story of a handful of people, a wild magic, and the unpredictable alchemy of time. Moreno-Garcia tells that story beautifully.
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