The Accident Season
It's the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom.The accident season has been part of seventeen-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...
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It's the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom.The accident season has been part of seventeen-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 sh
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780552571302 (055257130X)
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
I really loved the writing in this book. It drew me in and I just wanted more. I loved the concept, I loved the narrator, and I just wanted more of Fowley-Doyle’s words. Unfortunately I also wanted more from the story. It was so clear that a twist reveal was coming that when it happened it like “oh ...
I have such conflicting feelings about this book. The writing style seems to capture what I love most about magical realism and the plot seems to capture what I most dislike about YA lit. If I could excise the maudlin (and distastefully incestuous) romance from it, and half of the teenaged angst, I’...
For some reason this book had me captivated until the end, even though, looking back there is not so much happening. It starts with Cara finding that a single girl is in all her photographs. Not many, all. This is weird of course and also coincides with the so-called accident season, the month of ...
So here it is Finally my review for this book. I went into this book rather blind all I knew was it was about a girl and her family and every October accidents happened that where unexplained. This book was fab, I loved that this story wasn't set in America and the haunted factor to this story w...
Hmm, okay. Basically, The Accident Season had an amazing premise. Every October, Cara and her family become extremely accident prone. And they have the most horrific accident experiences, up to the point where some family members have come close to dying. The question is: why are these accidents hap...
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