Truly Madly Deadly is an edge-of-your-seat thriller about love, obsession and murder. Sawyer Dodd has it all. She's a star track athlete, choir soloist, and A-student. And her boyfriend is the handsome all-star Kevin Anderson. But behind the medals, prom pictures, and perfect smiles, Sawyer finds herself trapped in a controlling, abusive relationship with Kevin.
When he dies in a drunk-driving accident, Sawyer is secretly relieved. She's free. Until she opens her locker and finds a mysterious letter signed by "an admirer" and printed with two simple words: "You're welcome."
And in celebration of this one day deal, I have the play list from the author along with some descriptions of why she choose those songs for her book! I love a good book playlist, so here goes...
There is so much emotion in TRULY, MADLY, DEADLY that the
playlist had to reflect the same. Love, danger, terror – the book is packed
with it and the playlist is, too!
1. Aftermath
Lifehouse
2. My
Song Knows What You Did in the Dark Fallout Boy
3. Time-Bomb
All Time Low
4. Fighter
The Fray
5. Ready
Set Go Outasight
6. Nobody
Listen Lifehouse
7. Flagpole
Sitta Harvey Danger
8. Run
Don’t Walk Hey Monday
9. If I
Lose Myself Tonight One Republic
10. Hey
Beautiful Seven Foot Wave
11. Stuck
In The Middle Boys Like Girls
12. Brave
Sara Bareilles
Aftermath
is slow and a little dark; it reminds me of Kevin’s funeral. The lyrics, “If we can make it through the storm/become
who we were before/promise me we’ll never look back,” haunt Sawyer as she
walks up the Anderson’s stairs.
Besides being the best song title ever, My Song Knows What You Did in the Dark fits
Sawyer and Kevin’s dangerous relationship. Sawyer walks down the hill the night
of Kevin’s death. His words are drowned out by the pulse of this song – “So light ‘em up, up, up/Light ‘em up, up,
up/I’m on fire.”
Time Bomb – “it was like a time bomb set
into motion” – is Maggie’s and Sawyer’s first run-in, that Monday after the
funeral.
I imagine Lucas looking so forlorn as he
walks down the hall – I hear Fighter playing
behind him: “Maybe we were meant to be
lonely, lonely/maybe we were meant to be on our own.”
Ready
Set Go is upbeat and fun, the perfect getting ready for the game song.
Sawyer’s run in with Mr. Hanson is intense
– Nobody Listen – intense. “Everybody talk/Nobody listen/Nobody
listen…”
Sawyer runs to the beat of Flagpole Sitta. Can’t you just hear her
sneakers pounding out, “paranoia,
paranoia/everyone is coming to get me/just say you never met me”?
Sawyer reads the second note with trembling
breath, and the song Run Don’t Walk
pulses through the hallway.
If I
Lose Myself Tonight and Hey Beautiful
filter out of a house party – calm, sweet lyrics before the storm.
Sawyer’s father drags her home and she’s
terrified, looking over the destruction of her new baby sister’s nursery. She
hears Stuck In The Middle, the words,
“I know things’ll get better/Hold it
together/Take your time.”
Finally, during the last few paragraphs, we
hear Brave: “I wonder what would happen/if you say what you want to say/and let the
words fall out/Honestly/I want to see you brave.”
The baby’s nursery
Stuck In the Middle Boys Like Girls
I know things’ll get
better
Hold it together
Take your time
Stuck in the middle
The end
Brave Sara Bareilles
I wonder what would
happen
If you say what you
want to say
And let the words fall
out
Honestly, I want to
see you be brave
The second note
Nobody Listen Lifehouse
Wipe Your Eyes Maroon
Five
Better With You Kris
Allen
Shouldn’t Come Back Demi
Lovato
I Choose U Timeflies
Ready Set Go Outasight
(the football game)
Time-Bomb All Time
Low
Run, Don’t Walk Hey
Monday
Aftermath
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