I bounced off this book SO HARD, and I wanted to love it - I would bet money Lu is also a fan of the Mozart musical, I wanted a Nannerl + magic book, but....

Well, I think part of my issue is that I don't think historical Nannerl's deepest dream was fame. That was part of Wolfgang's motives, but I think what Nannerl really wanted was to be able to make her own choices - she couldn't marry the man she loved because her father didn't want it and Wolfgang didn't come through (as usual), she spent her life taking care of her father and brother and then presumably a husband she was less enthused about, she never really had any choices about whether to perform or not perform, and even if she wanted to pursue music more seriously, that simply wasn't a social option for her at all. And so it's tricky to fix any of that, especially if one is trying to stay within the constraints of history - both the timeline and the setting. But by halfway through, I was both not drawn in and felt like Nannerl and Wolfgang had too-similar motivations, plus it didn't seem to be heading towards resolving any of things I wanted resolved about historical!Nannerl's story. (And I agree with cahn that Nannerl felt too 21st-century, which I think is related - being concerned about immortal memory when you don't have a say in literally any of your major life changes seemed - odd to me, I guess, like first things first.)