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Title: The Accident Season
Author: Moira Fowley-Doyle
Narrator: Colby Minifie
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-16-16
Publisher: Random House Audiobooks
Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Teens, Mysteries & Thrillers
Publisher's Summary:
It's the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom.
The accident season has been part of 17-year-old Cara's life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara's family becomes inexplicably accident prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items - but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear.
But why are they so cursed? And how can they break free?
Members Reviews:
A mystery that will leave you guessing after the last page, but may not be your cup of tea!
Every October Cara and her family become accident-prone. And not just a little either. Things like broken bones, stitches, concussions and more. Some years are worse than others, like when her father died. This year Cara, her sister, her ex-stepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are in for a bad season, but not for the reasons they think. Even though they will all suffer serious physical injuries they learn that not all their scars are physical. The family has a long-hidden secret that lies beneath the bumps and bruises. The adults in the family have kept secrets and they are dark. There will be love and loss this season and some of it will scare them all worse than any year before.
I picked this up thinking it was going to be another great YA read. The premise sounded very interesting and I went into it ready for a great story. I have to say I was disappointed. It started out ok but then I found myself disinterested and lost to a lot of what was happening. The main characters become annoying very quickly and I found myself skimming more and more the further I read. Maybe this was just a little unusual for my taste, but I did not enjoy it. There were several points where it seemed like the author wasnât sure what genre she was writing. It went in one direction and then would switch and then back again. For a YA, the themes went in the wrong direction for me and I was turned off by the harsh language, that may not bother a lot of people but for me, with YA especially, I prefer not to read that. While this was an original story with an interesting premise it just didnât work for me. I know a lot of people have really loved it, I just canât say I did.
This book is almost perfect. It's lyrical and shot through with magic
4.75 stars. This was so close to getting 5 stars! There were just a few things I didn't understand/didn't make sense.
Cara and her family experience what they call "the accident season," which means that for the month of October, they're all more accident prone. Scrapes, broken bones, near misses, and tragedies.
Cara's also trying to track down Elsie, a girl she used to be friends with, but whom no one outside her family remembers. Is it coincidence that all her photos all shown Elsie, flitting at the corners?
This book is almost perfect. It's lyrical and shot through with magic, and each of the main characters ring true.