The Accident Season, Moira FowleyDoyle
The Accident Season, Moira FowleyDoyle
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The Accident Season

Author: Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Narrator: Colby Minifie

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/18/2015

Synopsis

For fans of We Were Liars and How I Live Now comes an addictive, sexy, twisty YA novel you won't want to miss.

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.

About The Author

Moïra Fowley-Doyle is half-French, half-Irish and lives in Dublin with her husband, their young daughter, and their old cat. Moïra's French half likes red wine and dark books in which everybody dies. Her Irish half likes tea and happy endings. Moïra started a PhD on vampires in young adult fiction before concentrating on writing young adult fiction with no vampires in it whatsoever. She wrote her first novel at the age of eight, when she was told that if she wrote a story about spiders she wouldn't be afraid of them anymore. Moïra is still afraid of spiders, but has never stopped writing stories. The Accident Season is her debut novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Emily May

This book is for a very specific type of reader. A reader who likes lots of weird imagery and strange writing. Possibly those drawn to the books of Nova Ren Suma. And those who enjoy not knowing what the hell is going on or what is even actually happening until the last few chapters of the book. I a......more

Goodreads review by Jesse (JesseTheReader)

(3.5) Despite the low rating, I want to say that this book was great! It had an addictive quality to it, it was rather hard to put down at times. I just found the twist to be rather predictable and I also DESPISED the weird relationships between the characters. Overall the writing was great and this......more

Goodreads review by Kassidy

Wow, what an entrancing and surprising read.......more

Goodreads review by aimee (aimeecanread)

Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. The Accident Season is an imaginative and whimsical paranormal book that'll keep you up at night. Just a little tip: you might want to keep a teddy bear close while reading this one, too. The main......more

Quotes

"Fowley-Doyle’s stunning debut novel weaves the temporal and the spiritual into a seamless reality, rich in emotional impact. Devastating loss and abuse are balanced by romance, teen hijinks, and spine-tingling discoveries. . . . This thought-provoking narrative will cast its spell over older teens and adults alike."—School Library Journal, starred review

"Ghosts, secrets, and magic collide in this Irish author's astonishing debut. . . . a moving portrait of a fractured family, knitting itself back together with courage and love. A powerful novel from an exciting new talent."—Kirkus, starred review

"Beautifully crafted and atmospheric, the magic realism of this book gradually peels away to expose secrets and reveal unexpected truths. Readers will be swept away by Fowley-Doyle’s lyrical writing and entrancing premise in this tale of forbidden love and magic."—Booklist

"Sensuous, eerie​, lyrical. . .Fowley-Doyle’s The Accident Season reads like a poem. The mystery is intriguing, the writing is gorgeous, and the characters are vivid. A lovely debut."—April Tulcholke, author of Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

"The Accident Season is amazing."—Holly Black

"Atmospheric and magical."—VOYA

"A lyrical and sometimes chilling exploration of the ways in which we manipulate memories to fall in line with our present narrative—the lies we tell ourselves to keep our brains safe and happy. Cara’s narration brilliantly, sometimes brutally conveys the unraveling of both Cara and her family…and the bittersweet ending will haunt readers as much it does Cara."—BCCB
 

Awards

  • Carnegie Medal
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