Title: Night Songs
Author: Alli Dyer
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4 out of 5
On the morning of Rhea’s eighteenth birthday, she makes a shocking discovery—her mother was the famed singer of some of country music’s most iconic tunes, the legendary Lulabelle “Belle” Powers, and she’s just inherited her massive estate. Eager to know more about this woman she barely remembers, Rhea travels to Nashville to retrace her mother’s footsteps. But as she gets to know Belle’s closest friends and learns more of her story, she can’t help but think something is being kept from her.
It isn’t until years later that her mother’s best friend Hess reveals the truth—her mother believed all the women in her family were cursed to die at thirty-three—Belle’s exact age when she passed away in a mysterious plane crash. Hess dismisses the curse as pure superstition, but Rhea feels something sinister stalking her, her own life beginning to mirror her mother’s as she gets closer to her thirty-third birthday. Desperate for answers, Rhea delves deeper into her mother’s music, uncovering Belle’s last unpublished album Night Songs, which leads her back to her roots in ways she never could have imagined.
This was…a bit weird, not going to lie. I loved Rhea’s and Belle’s different storylines, but it felt very chaotic in places. (Which…makes perfect sense, considering, actually.) I like the characters and the behind-the-scenes look at life in Nashville. I just was never quite sure where this was going to end up.
Alli Dyer was born in Tennessee. Night Songs is her newest novel.
(Galley courtesy of Atria Books in exchange for an honest review.)
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