Theme Music by T. Marie Vandelly on September 29, 2020
Genres: Fiction / Horror, Fiction / Thrillers / Psychological, Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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“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.
Prepare yourself for an unreliable narrator in Dixie, who drinks heavily, has blackouts at very suspicious times, and feels that her father lives through her sometimes. Dixie lies to herself so she definitely lies to others when it fits her needs. This book has a lot liars and a lot of secrets. Made it a hard read for me because I felt like I had no clue what was actually going on. If decapitated heads rolling across floors is your thing then this is the book for you, if not, then you’ve been warned!
I went down the middle with three stars on this novel. This book had one of the best prologues I’ve read in awhile and I was so eager to flip the pages. However, I felt this loses steam through out the middle with a lot of repetition. Each chapter featured lurching, vomiting, things slipping down and / or getting stuck in her throat etc. etc. The ending, while I didn’t figure it all out, seemed a little too over the top and definitely requires suspension of disbelief.