The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

I thought I would take a break from the classics and saw this in the library. I thought it looked different, especially the title from any other book I’ve read and it was. I promise it’s not as depressing as it sounds. I kind of hope that this book will be turned into a film as I’d like to see how a director would portray it.

“So let’s raise our glasses to the accident season,

To the river beneath us where we sink our souls,

The bruises and secrets, to the ghost in the ceiling,

One more drink for the watery road.”

Every October, the same family always experiences freak accidents; broken limbs, car crashes and deaths. Both their father and uncle were killed in the accident season. However, they cannot work out why. The mother turns over protective during the month, hiding anything dangerous out of reach of her teenage children. Well, when I say children- she has two daughters, Cara and Alice and their “ex-stepbrother” Sam who is the same age. It’s complicated. The mother’s ex-husband had a son but when he, Christopher, left, he left all of them. However, Cara whose perspective it’s written from is in love with Sam. Awkward.

"Is it a curse or a coincidence?"

 

Cara realises that in every photos she has ever taken there is a girl who she comes to realise is called Elsie. Who is she? When Cara starts looking for her, no one has ever heard of her or knows anything about her. Who is she? How did Cara find out about her? Will she find out who she actually is?

As well as Cara and Sam’s weird ‘incest’ relationship, they prepare to hold a Halloween party in a haunted house. Sounds quite cool. However, they have no idea when the next accident will take place.

Alice is known as a ‘witch’ at school because she takes cards around and claims she can predict the future. That’s quite a good talent until it claims that that following month, Alice and her ‘siblings’ will experience the worst accident yet.

I hope you enjoyed this book review and I really recommend it because it is nowhere near as depressing as it sounds.