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Ratings14
Average rating3.6
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Ratings14
Average rating3.6
An utterly propulsive and unpredictable psychological thriller from stunning new talent T. Marie Vandelly She didn't run from her dark past. She moved in. For the lucky among us, life is what you make of it; but for Dixie Wheeler, the theme music for her story was chosen by another long ago, on the day her father butchered her mother and brothers and then slashed a knife across his own throat. Only one-year-old Dixie was spared, becoming infamously known as Baby Blue for the song left playing in the aftermath of the slaughter. Twenty-five years later, Dixie is still desperate for a connection to the family she can’t remember. So when her childhood home goes up for sale, Dixie sets aside all reason and moves in. But as the ghosts of her family seemingly begin to take up residence in the house that was once theirs, Dixie starts to question her sanity and wonders if the evil force menacing her is that of her father or a demon of her own making. In order to make sense of her present, Dixie becomes determined to unravel the truth of her past and seeks out the detective who originally investigated the murders. But the more she learns, the more she opens up the uncomfortable possibility that the sins of her father may belong to another. As bodies begin to pile up around her, Dixie must find a way to expose the lunacy behind her family’s massacre to save her few loved ones who are still alive—and whatever scrap of sanity she has left.
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Rating: 3.88 leaves out of 5-Characters: 3/5 -Cover: 4/5-Story: 4/5-Writing: 5/5Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Paranormal-Horror: 2/5-Thriller: 4/5-Mystery: 5/5-Paranormal: 4/5Type: AudiobookWorth?: YesHated Disliked Meh It Was Okay Liked LovedKept hearing this book was good and it really didn't disappoint me all that much. I did have a problem with Garret. He annoyed me 90% of the time. The horror part for me wasn't high. There were times I was a bit spooked but other than that I liked being on my toes though out. I really was going back and forth on some of the characters and their part in the story.
Well that was unhinged. Some final girl elements, some haunted house elements, but felt different to either subgenre. Sadly borrows a lot from thriller tropes I've encountered: morally gray actions, people keeping secrets, everybody acting badly towards each other, unreliable narrator in the form of mental health issues and black outs, dragging out the pace (I think it's supposed to ‘build tension'). It did veer away from those lines in the closing act and ended softer than I thought it would, but it spent enough time masquerading as that genre to make me grumpy. If you don't mind things which span the thriller-horror borderlands, you may enjoy this.
⚠️terminal illness, suicidal ideation, assisted death(?), sexual assault/harrassment/stalking, gore, internalized misogyny, misogyny
