Trevor's Song

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• 1.A new Trevor Wolff fan!

  Posted February 20, 2011 by Joel Kirkpatrick, Durango

  Susan Helene Gottfried has created a character so strong and complete, he can be viewed from any angle, any perspective. If you want him to shock you, Trevor Wolff has already started. If you want him to endear himself to you, he will. Don’t tell him he did; he won’t like that.
  
  He does love attention. ‘Trevor’s Song’ is more than his moment of fame; he realizes that and appears as expected in every scene. Even the scenes without him are about him. When you begin to define this story, and struggle to do it without spoilers, you begin to wonder who created it. Trevor is the reason every word of it exists, I believe. He assembled the band, somewhat by accident and experiment, Susan tells us. She doesn’t admit that he demanded the book, yet it feels like it. He must have insisted she write it all down.
  
  Staying away from setups that feel like hastily created TV shows which attempt to explain why we all still love that one, tired song, Susan Gottfried takes us where it is forbidden to go - into the living part of that life. We get a limited number of naked, groping tag-alongs, and instead get some enlightening conversation about how difficult it may be to realize your dream is rolling right over you. Trevor wanted to be famous, and it has happened, almost while he pranced around to avoid it. Was he really trying to get into trouble the whole time? We also learn what binds him to Mitchell Voss, and what Trevor-tremors that bond can endure.
  
  The author lived this life. She accurately, honestly, shows the moments that flip Rock Stars into monsters or burn-outs. But she won’t let her characters lose all their dimensions to go there. She would have to remove so much to make this fit the late-night clichés. ‘Less is more’ would not work here. Perhaps that explains why there are three books about this band, ‘ShapeShifter’, and why this author cannot stop writing this character. Trevor Wolff is very demanding.