Book Review: Night Songs by Alli Dyer

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In this haunting family saga, a young woman must delve into her country star mother’s music to break a curse that has plagued the women in her family for generations—before her time runs out.

Synopsis:

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 Desperate for answers, Rhea delves deeper into her mother’s music, uncovering Belle’s last unpublished album Night Songs, which leads her back to her roots in ways she never could have imagined.

Alternating between Rhea’s journey and Lulabelle’s untold rise to country queen, Night Songs is an electric story of inheritance and resilience, love and freedom, and the power of music to connect across generations.

Review

How much do we really know about the celebrities that we follow? Their hopes their aspirations their actual lives.... We know what they want us to know not what may always be the truth. This book looks into that concept, but from the idea of a child who knows nothing about their celebrity parent and only finds out who they actually are on their 18th birthday. It's an interesting twist to look back into the deceased celebrity to see what really occurred in their life that led them on the path they took. Sometimes knowing the truth is a good thing and sometimes it's not. But ultimately Rhea take what she can from the story and changes her life for the better. This is one that you may be passing on to friends and family , and mentally casting the series because this one's perfect for Netflix!

About the Author 

Alli Dyer was born in Tennessee and raised in the mountains of Virginia. She is the author of Strange Folk and Night Songs, and for the last decade, she has worked in entertainment and book publishing. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her family.