Blackbirds by Chuck Wendig My rating: 4 of 5 stars Miriam Black has an interesting talent. Whenever she touches a person's bare skin, she can tell when and how they die. On the run most of her life, she gets by hitchhiking and stealing. When a good Samaritan picks her up, she finds that he dies a ...
Miriam Black has an interesting talent. Whenever she touches a person's bare skin, she can tell when and how they die. On the run most of her life, she gets by hitchhiking and stealing. When a good Samaritan picks her up, she finds that he dies a few weeks later, saying her name as a knife goes t...
And this started so well! I inhaled the first 70 pages without blinking. And then... it all went downhill. Needless over-the-top gore, failure to really explore the core fantasy concept (maybe in future books?), unnecessary overuse of the R-word and misogynistic insults (If you won't use the N-word,...
I keep trying to come up for a better adjective for this story than raw, and I can't do it. (The book's not unpolished; that's quite different.) It's a three-in-the-morning, diner-coffee, grit-spit-and-grime ragged tired running lonely scared book.And it manages to work through all the storytellin...
Wasn't quite sure what to make of this book at first. The lead Character Mirriam is damaged and rightly so, yet she is real. The story is gritty and dark and I loved every minute of it.
4.5 stars. Oh man, what can I say about Miriam Black? Funny how Chuck Wendig was able to hook me on his Blackbirds female protagonist the way he couldn't with Mookie Pearl in The Blue Blazes, my first book by this author. I may have mentioned my aversion for rough, brutish, brawn-over-brains charact...
FateI can see your future.I can see your death date.Whether you choke on a bone orpast the red light you skate.You might live until tomorrow,when the sun goes down.I'll be sure to pick your pockets,for what's lost can be found.Your life may be worth living,but you may die real slow.Leaving behind yo...
I'm with Tatiana on this one. This book is pretty friggin' disgusting. I'm super glad I read Mockingbirds, the second book in the Miriam Black series, first as it has much more going for it. I will continue on with this series.
This book is brutal. It is harsh. It is profane. It is graphic. It will not be for everyone. However, for the most part it really worked for me. That said, no matter how much I love about a book's style and the voice of the protagonist (and Miriam has a strong voice right from line one of the book),...
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