The Accident Season

Books | Young Adult Fiction / Family / Blended Families

3.4

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Moïra Fowley-Doyle

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.

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Author

Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Pages

304

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

2015-08-18

ISBN

069840503X 9780698405035

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"Honestly? I really did Not like this. The only reason it's 2 stars instead of 1 is that the character Bea was pretty cool. Otherwise, I thought the writing was a boring and poorly paced. Plus it had a trope that I Hate, that I hadn't expected it to have."

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"I was bored when I began reading. The switching from fantasy to reality at such a fast pace was giving me whiplash. I decided to skip to the last couple of chapters. Holy crap! I wish I had more patience. The ending ties everything together. This is a good YA book that I surprisingly liked."