Every fall, when the orchards ripen and the leaves begin to die, there are murders. We know it, and we accept it. It's the price we pay for living in Apple. Families mourn, but no one is ever caught. Now, there's a body in the woods, and the cycle is starting again. People bruise easily in Apple.
Finding a murdered and mutilated girl plunges Jackson Gill into the middle of a decades-old horror. For Jackson, the newest murders become personal. His mentally ill sister knows far more about the murders than anyone restrained in a basement room should know.
When one by one, her sick, cryptic predictions prove true, Jackson will have to believe the unthinkable and stop what no one has been able to stop in sixty years.
He has no choice. He lives in Bloody Bloody Apple.
BLOODY BLOODY APPLE by Howard Odentz is far darker than I could have imagined. Told through the POV of teenager Jackson, the savage history of Apple is revealed, as well as the twisted secrets each family hides behind closed doors. With the level of dysfunction among so many households, it's no wonder the annual murders are accepted as normal.
This year, the victims are all people connected to Jackson in some way, and his sister seems to know something about the killings, despite being chained up in their basement. However, the crime scenes pale in comparison to his personal life. This novel is a horror story within a mystery-thriller, and Jackson is the only one who might be able to piece the puzzle together, if his family secrets don't break him first.
I recommend this story to anyone who enjoys psychological horror, but I have to warn readers: there are a LOT of triggers in this book. This story gave me plenty of nightmares.
As always,
AstraDaemon
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