"Harmony Lost feels a great deal like the show Life on Mars, mixed with VHI's Behind the Music, and a little bit of Black Mirror mixed in for seasoning. Fans of any, or all three, will find themselves at home." Victoria Irwin, Editor in Chief at FangirlNation.com
In 1969 London, rock and rollers party hard. So finding a mini-skirted young woman unconscious in an alley comes as no surprise. But unlike the usual drug-addled head-case, Pam wakes with no memory and an angry voice jabbering in her head.
Profoundly unhip and terminally nice, Pam doesn't belong in swinging London. Though lost and lonely, she's determined stick to her values and discover her purpose. Even if her journey requires wearing polyester and applying thick black paint to her eyelashes. Surely she was sent to this unhappy and unevolved place for a reason. Is that reason the success of her husband's rock band?
But launching a successful band is no walk in the park, especially for a novice outsider like Pam. She must negotiate her ambisexual husband with his roving eye and multiple neuroses, predatory club owners, and the fractious band with their strange ideas about gender and race.
Meanwhile her raucous internal voice shouts insults and urges her to attack at the slightest provocation. She'll end up in prison or a mental hospital if she's not careful. She won't be able to complete her mission from straight jacket, and every instinct tells her: the mission is critical.
"Author Stella Jorette manages to combine 1969 London with modern vernacular, the normal with the absurd, and the horrifying with enough humor to keep the reader turning pages like they are playing a guitar solo." Victoria Irwin, Editor in Chief at FangirlNation.com
Fun and Different. ...fun and quirky and refreshingly different...laugh out loud moments...thought provoking scenarios. Sherie gives 5 stars
Rock and Roll Time Warp. The characters have depth and a vividness to them...well balanced humor...romanticism in both between the characters and also in their view of the world and music. But again, what really hooked me was the mystery. RLJ gives 5 stars
Outstanding. The characters were original and engaging and the dialogue and settings authentic to my teen memories of London during that era. Kari gives 5 stars
