By: L. A. Detwiler
Published: March 12th, 2020
Genre: Suspense | Thriller | Crime | Dark thriller | Adult Fiction
AMAZON | GOODREADS
Synopsis: From the USA Today and International Bestselling author of The Widow Next Door comes a demented page-turner.
If you knew your father’s darkest secret, would you turn him in?
What if his secret was connected to you?
Ruby Marlowe’s always been a daddy’s girl. Her mother died when she was two, and her single father has ensured she has everything she needs. However, everyone has dark secrets, and Ruby’s father is no exception…
When she's young, she doesn’t understand the weight of her father’s killing game. However, as she ages, she realizes her obsessive tendencies aren’t the only elements that separate her from her peers. After she begins to investigate her mother’s life and death, Ruby starts to believe there are some secrets even she doesn’t know about the serial killer she calls Daddy.
As her father’s killing grows rampant, the secrets get harder and harder to hide—and she fears it will all come crashing down. Will Ruby seek a different life for herself and betray the only person who has ever loved her, or will she get wrapped up in his sinister path?
Honestly, this was a kind of rough read for me. It's not a read for everyone.
The story is told from Ruby's pov, from the time she is a little girl that just loves to play in puddles and sees something she shouldn't. Her father cleaning up a crime scene.
Ruby just sees the red color everywhere though and doesn't quite understand what's happening so she starts liking the color red- wanting to play in red puddles, having red rainboots, etc.
You read and see Ruby grow up and how the different things she sees around her affect her, she's a ddady's girl that thinks he can do no wrong though she eventually realizes that her father is a serial killer.
And honestly, the eerie and creepy parts of this book come from seeing the main character's mind as she wraps her thoughts around what she sees and hears.
As Ruby grows up and deals with the world around her, and sees her father growing restless when he doesn't commit murder, she tries to understand what's ''wrong'' and what's ''right''.
This is not a mystery kind of read, this is a book that makes you wonder what our main character is going to do and what will happen to her- every page you wonder what decision she's going to make as you watch her go through every age while knowing her father that she loves is a murderer.
It is well written and keeps you reading for sure.
If you love eerie and dark reads, this is for you.
I, however, did not completely realize this until I was already reading it. Yeah no, I had to go watch some light-hearted stuff after reading this and then only read kid books with my little brother for a bit...
My rating to this book is because it's not the kind of book for me, and heck no thanks! But if all of this piques your curiosity and you like those kinds of reads, you will enjoy it.
This is just my personal thoughts on the book, but it was also not my kind of read nor my kind of genre.
Have you heard of this book? What did you think?
Thanks for reading & have a lovely day!!
~Books with Noel
Comments
Post a Comment