Medium.com Review – Jim Mowat
A Rainbow Like You ~ Book Review
Published: February 28, 2021
Writing a novel in a rock music setting is a place of high stakes for an author. The real-life counterparts are hard to compete with in terms of extraordinary highs and lows. The narrative arc is well known to all readers with a musical interest. Very few have successfully pulled it off.
I am delighted to find that Andréa Fehsenfeld has married literature to rock music and delivered a stunningly insightful and page turning novel. A rock singer is alone in his tour bus sanctuary, mentally bruised and battered by fame and touring. The intervention of a sick young child into his life has consequences and fall outs. Fehsenfeld writes with descriptive art and nuance, matches it with well thought out characters, and a plot that keeps the reader engaged.
A Rainbow Like You has all the feel of a genuine rock band narrative, the record company exec’s, the management side, the backstage roadie crew, the fans, the band themselves, the broken relationships, and the lost in translation ennui of touring life. All written with verve and wisdom.
Just to top it off, there is a cool graphic for the cover art, graphics of the band members and their discography, and a Spotify released track of the title song.
