The Accident Season
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4.1 • 25 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
For fans of We Were Liars, How I Live Now, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane comes a haunting, sexy debut of magical realism. And look for Moïra Fowley-Doyle's newest book, Spellbook of the Lost and Found.
Every October Cara and her family become inexplicably and unavoidably accident-prone. Some years it's bad, like the season when her father died, and some years it's just a lot of cuts and scrapes. This accident season—when Cara, her ex-stepbrother, Sam, and her best friend, Bea, are 17—is going to be a bad one. But not for the reasons they think.
Cara is about to learn that not all the scars left by the accident season are physical: There's a long-hidden family secret underneath the bumps and bruises. This is the year Cara will finally fall desperately in love, when she'll start discovering the painful truth about the adults in her life, and when she'll uncover the dark origins of the accident season—whether she's ready or not.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
We loved this odd, creepy story about three siblings trying to make sense of the curse that befalls their family around Halloween each year. Over the course of several weeks, teenagers Cara, Sam, and Alice are prone to hurting themselves badly, leading their otherwise free-spirited mother to swaddle them in extra layers and disconnect the gas range in the kitchen. Combining the hypnotic pull of a fairytale and the familiarity of a contemporary coming-of-age tale, Dublin-based author Moïra Fowley-Doyle gives us an unforgettable novel that explores the messiness of love and the crushing force of secrets and denial.
Customer Reviews
The Accident Season
I read the sample and was holding out high hopes for something new and different. I wished there were more action. It's missing something-she keeps talking about fairies and tree sprites but there aren't ever ACTUAL fairies or tree sprites. Just that she thinks there could be. But she's never sure. And that gets very irritating over several hundred pages.
This is a good book if you are in the mood for spooky-it's just not engaging enough to charge $10.99.
the characters
okay so I started this book and I got to the third chapter and GAVE UP. the characters literally made me so angry that I couldn’t bring myself to actually finish the book. I do not recommend this book unless you like characters who have the iqs of a fish.