![]() I won’t get into the supporting characters too much for fear of giving something away, but I even loved and loathed them as I was supposed to. ![]() As he grew up and started to go after what he wanted, I was firmly on his side, cheering him on through everything. Moses is a sensitive soul, and I found myself wanting to protect him in his childhood years. Gothic doesn’t feel like exactly the right word to describe this book, but melodramatic has a negative connotation, at least to me, so I’m going to stick with Gothic. And I was in the right mood for this one. The side of me that loves dark, convoluted, Gothic stories absolutely loved this book! A mother widely believed to be mad, an evil father, life with monks, and love against all odds just add up to the perfect read when I am in the right mood. On Moses’s death, however, his son found a memoir that told of Moses’s humble beginnings and how father and son found each other. ![]() When his son asked how they had come to be together, Moses would studiously avoid the question. Moses Froben, an opera singer of world-renown, raised a son who could not possibly have been his own. ![]()
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