When the Moon Turns to Blood, Leah Sottile
When the Moon Turns to Blood, Leah Sottile
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When the Moon Turns to Blood
Lori Vallow, Chad Daybell, and a Story of Murder, Wild Faith, and End Times

Author: Leah Sottile

Narrator: Leah Sottile

Unabridged: 10 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Twelve

Published: 06/21/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Inspired by Jon Krakauer’s Under the Banner of Heaven and Jess Walter’s Every Knee Shall Bow, WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD explores modern-day survivalism and end-times extremism through the story of Lori Vallow and her husband, grave digger turned doomsday novelist, Chad Daybell.

When police in Rexburg, Idaho perform a wellness check on seven J.J. Vallow and his sister, sixteen-year-old Tylee Ryan, both children are nowhere to be found. Their mother, Lori Vallow, gives a phony explanation, and when officers return the following day with a search warrant, she, too, is gone. As the police begin to close in, a larger web of mystery, murder, fanaticism and deceit begins to unravel.

Vallow’s case is sinuously complex. As investigators prod further, they find the accused Black Widow has an unusual number of bodies piling up around her.
 
WHEN THE MOON TURNS TO BLOOD tells a gripping story of extreme beliefs, snake oil prophets, and explores the question: if it feels like the world is ending, how are people supposed to act?

Reviews

What? What did I just read...how did this crap happen?! And wtf is wrong with people?! I love a good true crime novel, so I did enjoy this in a absolutely disgusted and infuriated kind of way. It is intense and really darn disturbing. Interesting, yes. Twisted, he's. Skin crawling, yes. Good one for......more

Goodreads review by Mara on March 06, 2023

Verging to 4.5 territory... I think if you are looking for a straight up true crime account of this case, you will likely not be very satisfied by this one. It's very focused on the religious and cultural milieu that incubated the beliefs that turned deadly in these families' lives. However, as a re......more

Goodreads review by Lilibet on July 03, 2022

Going into this book, it’s important to note that it’s not strictly a true crime novel. You might get the idea that it is, given that the subscript of the title starts off with the names of the now-infamous names of accused murderers Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell (neither have stood trial yet–they wi......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on November 13, 2022

4.0 stars This book has a heavy focus on the LDS splinter doomsday preppers, which I found personally most interesting. There is actually not a lot of focus on the case itself, likely because this was written before the trial. I would most recommend this readers interested in how people get pulled in......more

Goodreads review by PATCHES on April 19, 2023

This took me a while to read but I was enthralled by it. It’s one of the best “true crime” books I’ve ever read. I’ll be recommending this for years to come. Despite it being just slightly dated since the trial is happening now it doesn’t necessarily feel that way, since this focuses solely on Mormo......more