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Deep Cuts
Holly Brickley
Publication Date: February 25th, 2025
Penguin Random House Canada | Doubleday Canada
288 Pages
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Genres: General Fiction | Romance | Women’s Fiction
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭 𝘪𝘵.
Deep Cuts can refer to music (a song that is less popular than other songs by the same artist or on the same album) or love (a situation where a relationship slowly deteriorates over time due to a series of small, unresolved issues, hurts, or disappointments that accumulate) in this story we get both.
Let’s start off with the music. I lost my hearing in the early noughts and loved that a lot of the music in this book is way before that time so I can remember the sound of it and could imagine it in my head. I also found it so cool that every chapter is named after a song title.
Now to the love part…A friends-to-lovers romance with a Daisy Jones and the Six-esque vibe. I was so into the chemistry, both personal and professional, between Percy and Joe. It was so electric and jumped off the pages. Add a dash of a love triangle with a jealous friend to the mix and we have an enthralling story I couldn’t put down. The three of them, Joe, Percy and Zoe grow up and apart together. Each of them spreads their wings but also wants to be in each other’s lives and are missing each other. They are like family, they are the type of friends we all wish we had.
This was such a nostalgic read for me, music-wise and history-wise. It definitely has a romantic novel feel to it, but it is also so much more. It’s about working relationships, friendships, being true to ourselves, finding out what makes us happy, and making yourself heard. The characters have lots of depth and are multi-layered, plus it has a musical hook that even this deaf person enjoyed. What an incredible debut.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the Advance Readers Copy.
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