This book. Blew. My. Mind. There aren 't a lot of actual magical realism novels in Young Adult - there are a lot of fantasy, paranormal, etc., but magical realism is difficult to find. This book was everything that makes magical realism what it is, and yet it was an engaging and haunting Young Adult story that is a classic for the ages.I began reading The Accident Season and was quick to pitch it as contemporary YA that also fell somewhere between The Ring and The Falling. You may have heard about the mysterious tarot cards and the creepy red buttons, but the The Accident Season is not so much scary story as it is a wonderfully evocative contemporary novel with many eerie twists.
The accident season has begun, in which Cara, her mother, her sister Alice, and her ex-stepbrother Sam, are at their most accident-prone. No
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This book is written in her first-person point-of-view. She is caring and intelligent, and she 's a dreamer and a reader. She starts to see changelings and fairies, but as with magical realism, this isn 't a worrisome thing to Cara. A classmate of Cara 's goes missing, and Cara sees her everywhere, yet nowhere. Cara is tenacious, and kind, and a bit naive …show more content…
Even though it 's been a week since I finished the book, I can still hear "So let’s raise our glasses to the accident season, To the river beneath us where we sink our souls, To the bruises and secrets, to the ghosts in the ceiling, One more drink for the watery road." being chanted by the characters I 've left behind. Moira Fowley-Doyle 's writing is what stands out the most. The Accident Season is a compelling story of family, first love and friendship, the blurriness of secrets and lies, and everything in between, but it 's brought to life by Moira 's beautiful words. Masked balls, crumbling houses and ethereal changelings that only Cara can see all provide a stage on which Moira can