THE REPERTOIRE by Kristin Fouquet-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 17, 2022.

Vocalist Audrey Reine has enjoyed local stardom at a famous music club in New Orleans for nearly two decades. When her lover, the club owner, replaces her with an ingénue, Audrey must negotiate an unexpected new life while trying to rescue her tentative musical career. The Repertoire is a jazz novella for a new era.

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REVIEW: THE REPERTOIRE by Kristin Fouquet is a stand alone, contemporary, adult, love story focusing on New Orleans’ vocalist Audrey Reine aka Cleo, and night club owner Monsieur Emile.

Told from dual third person perspectives (Audrey and Emile) THE REPERTOIRE follows the love story and fall out of Audrey Reine and Monsieur Emile. For eighteen years, singer Audrey Reine was Monsieur Emile’s protege and lover but Audrey never expected to be replaced by a much younger version of herself. Alone and destitute Audrey contacted a former friend who gave our heroine a much needed push towards her own independence. An afternoon cocktail at a local New Orleans’ dive bar found Audrey looking forward, not back, where her climb to the top, would begin anew but our heroine never expected to come face to face with her past, a past that became all too clear when the proverbial rose coloured glasses are removed and the truth is revealed.

THE REPERTOIRE is a fast paced, novella length story of love, loss, obsession and betrayal set in the smoky jazz halls of New Orleans. Audrey Reine is a character, a caricature of the past, someone’s memories of what was and what will never be again. The premise is entertaining and intriguing; the romance is an homage to music, the era of Blues and Jazz; the characters are desperate, captivating and lost.

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