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SONG :
Tate McRae x Ali Gatie - lie to me
Dark Notes is a forbidden, student-teacher, age-gap romance. It was well written and I love how Pam Godwin combined all the musical elements in her writing. There were so many beautiful quotes to chose from!
Everything is perfect.
Too perfect. Like life has handed me a song filled with soul-deep joy and told me to savor every note.
Because eventually, the song will end.
♣ PLOT ♣
This book follows 17 year old pianist Ivory Westbrooke
SONG :
Tate McRae x Ali Gatie - lie to me
Dark Notes is a forbidden, student-teacher, age-gap romance. It was well written and I love how Pam Godwin combined all the musical elements in her writing. There were so many beautiful quotes to chose from!
Everything is perfect.
Too perfect. Like life has handed me a song filled with soul-deep joy and told me to savor every note.
Because eventually, the song will end.
♣ PLOT ♣
This book follows 17 year old pianist Ivory Westbrooke (h) in her senior year at Le Moyne, one of the most recognised and elite performing arts high schools in the country. Emeric Marceaux (H) is taking over a teacher job after one of the other teacher retired. Ivory is trying to get into Leopold, one of the most selective performing arts college with the help of her new teacher while navigating her abusive home life.
Dark Notes starts out very promising, but ngl after Emeric and Ivory get together the plot kind of falls very flat and not much happened.
"Sometimes you love people you shouldn't, and in the endless space of that love, nothing else matters."
✧ IVORY WESTBROOKE ✧
Christ, this girl… She's my music, my place in this life, my part in it all.
What I loved most about Ivory is her ✨ spirit ✨. Being the only poor student at Le Moyne is hard. Everyone is looking down at her, all the students think she's a slut, because she has to do what she has to do to pay all the bills, since neither her mother nor her brother are any help. The head of the school has something against her and is just looking for a reason to expel her. All odds are against her and still, Ivory is trying to survive. Sometimes you find steel in someone when they stand up to their bully, but steel in Ivory is when so many are trying to drag her down, and she keeps getting up and working hard again, because she knows she is the best. I was cheering so hard for Ivory, hoping at the end of the book, she would get into Leopold since that was her lifelong dream.
I've never wanted anyone the way I want her. Not just her body. I want her everything. She is the strongest emotion I've ever felt.
Ivory my poor baby 😭 Reading about her domestic life was so sad, I just wanted to hug her, wrap her into a warm blanket, buy the fanciest piano that I can buy with my 5€ I have and protect Ivory from the outside world, because EVERYONE was extremely shitty. Can someone kick them all in the face. The students at Loyne – thinking they are so much better than her, because they have money and better clothes. Her mother and brother – blaming her that her father loved her more, bc he put all his money to pay Ivory's tuition before he died. The only creature who is not against Ivory, is her cat Schubert. Therefore, I was rooting hardcore for Ivory to show everyone what she's made of!
✧ EMERIC MARCEAUX ✧
In the depraved innards of my soul, I thrill at being the thing she fears. I want to claim her apprehension, dread, and uncertainty. I want to take ownership of all of her emotions and be the sole reason she trembles and cries.
Another alpha asshole to love!! Emeric at the beginning was so cold and acting so assholish towards Ivory. He has some very questionable teaching methods lol. At the same time he was very protective of Ivory right from the start. I loved how Emeric taught Ivory to play music beyond the classical frame, expanded her horizon and opened her eyes for greater potential. He was the best teacher she could have had.
I don't even know if Emeric intended to be funny or not, he was a comedian anyway.
"Which song is this one?"
She gives me a watery smile over her shoulder. "His favorite Herbie Hancock, 'Someday My Prince Will Come.'"
I'm no prince, but when I'm buried inside Ivory, I will always come.
I looove his relationship with his parents!!! It was so refreshing and weird at the same time.. which 27 year old guy is telling his parents all about the underage student he is dating like what. Emeric can talk with his parents about anything even the BDSM stuff and I'm like hmm that's either family goals or a little bit too much information i don't know lmao. Sending your girlfriend to your father who is a physisian to get checked and birth control.. that's not awkward at all. 🏃🏻♀️
࿐ྂ。 ICONIC MOMENTS (spoilery-part) ࿐ྂ。
➵ Emeric eating Ivory out on a piano with the song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana playing in the background. That's some queen and king shit and the humor in it lmao.
➵ When Emeric brings Ivory to Leopold for an auditon and she plays a pop song when it's in the requirement to play a classic. At the beginning I was shocked that she bombed her audition since it was such a long dream Ivory had to go there. She worked so hard for it and then she does that?? But then when the judge tell her that Leopold is not a school of pop and that they teach classical pieces, Ivory turns around and plays the hardest section of Balakirev's Islamey. One of the most technical songs and hardest piano pieces to play. And Ivory does it flawlessly!!! At least that's what Emeric said and who am I to say otherwise. Girl, that FLEX!!! I was so proud of Ivory. 😭
All the judges were impressed as they should be.
Ivory Westbrooke doesn't need Leopold, it is Leopold that need Ivory Westbrooke.〰 CONCERNS EH AND WHY NOT A HIGHER RATING 〰
Jesus, I'm going to need a screaming-hard fuck tonight. Leather, rope, and chafing strokes. No safe words. No clingy aftercare. Chloe or Deb will do. Maybe both.
When I read that quote, I was like jeez okay I didn't know this book is going to have BDSM.. but what concerned me the most was the NO SAFE WORDS part, because really???? That's such a red flag for me. I was scared what would happen, especially knowing Ivory's sexual history. It was making me anxious. Thank God the whole BDSM dom/sub wasn't as terrible as I thought it would be, since Emeric used safe words with Ivory and there wasn't a moment where I thought he wasn't taking care of her enough.
Even though 17 is the legal age of consent, Ivory and Emeric sex scenes, still made me a tiny bit uncomfortable since they have 10 year age gap. I would have felt so much better about it if Ivory would have been 18. It just one year and for a lot of people it wouldn't make a different, but it makes such a difference to me. 🤷🏽♀️ Forbidden, age gap and underage sex is one thing but adding Emeric being into BDSM with Ivory's past of being raped and sexually exploited for years was just too much for me. Here is why: even though Pam wrote the transitions of Ivory learning to feel pain and starting to crave it with the pleasure well. It didn't make much sense to me from the start why add the BDSM element in it. Emeric could still be dominant without all the ropes and stuff. I don't expect vanilla sex just bc what happened to Ivory, but it just doesn't sit right with me that Ivory went from not being able to escape all the abuse bc the men are stronger, so she had to lie there and let it happen to Ivory being tied with rope. I know it's not the same, since Ivory holds all the power in the ladder, since she can stop it anytime saying the safe word while she was helpless with the other men, but idk something about that makes me itchy. The sex scenes between Emeric and Ivory were still HOT and enjoyable to read since it was always safe and because Emeric is 🔥🔥🔥 getting it on on a Steinway piano is seriously a new goal (in my next life)...
I only wished that Pam Godwin would have changed some things a little, but that's my preference.
That tiny glimmer in her eyes is trust.
That's when I hear it. The tempo of our breaths. The drum of our heartbeats. The crackle in the air. The exquisite cadence pulses through me, awakening sensations I've never felt, composing a melody I've never heard.
Our hypnotic, dark notes.
P.S. Schubert deserves better.
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28435457-dark-notes