BlackbirdBy Anna Carey
Series: Blackbird
Duology #1
Genre: Young Adult,
Thriller, ParanormalPublisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: September 16, 2014
*I received this book, from the
publisher, in exchange for an honest review*
Goodreads Summary:
A
girl wakes up on the train tracks, a subway car barreling down on her. With
only minutes to react, she hunches down and the train speeds over her. She
doesn’t remember her name, where she is, or how she got there. She has a tattoo
on the inside of her right wrist of a blackbird inside a box, letters and
numbers printed just below: FNV02198. There is only one thing she knows for
sure: people are trying to kill her.
On
the run for her life, she tries to untangle who she is and what happened to the
girl she used to be. Nothing and no one are what they appear to be. But the
truth is more disturbing than she ever imagined.
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My Thoughts:
You
wake up on the train tracks and you slowly become aware of your surroundings…
Yep,
you guessed it, this book is in 2nd person. When I realized it was a
second person young adult thriller I was even more interested. I was excited to
get into the head of the narrator. There was definite mindscrew potential. Will
you (the reader) be a killer? A victim? What will it be like living in their
shoes for a few hours?
Unfortunately
it wasn’t like that for me. It’s a great premise for a story but there were
only 30ish pages in the book where I was on the edge of my seat thinking ‘oh
shit, what’s going to happen next’. The rest of the time I was vaguely interested
in what was happening but I had no problems putting the book down to go do
other things. In fact, it took me a week to read this when I normally read a
book in a day or two.
I
think many will disagree with me and rate it much higher but it just
didn’t suck me in like I wanted it to.
Overall Rating: 3 out of 5
Hmm that's too bad it wasn't more exciting. It does sound like it would be a great book! It sounds like I would prob have the same opinion, and I hate slow books.
ReplyDeleteI'm curious if the second one will be similar
Delete2nd person? I never read a story written like that! I am so disappointed from reading other reviews that it is slow and hard to keep going :(
ReplyDelete~Amber @ The Book Bratz
It's not a bad book but yeah it's not as good as I was expecting
DeleteThat's disappointing, it does sound so promising. I hate it when books have such great potential and they end up flopping. I actually just read one like that.
ReplyDeleteI know! I've had two recently (the second will be reviewed next month). Sometimes I think I just shouldn't get my hopes up but then I kick that thought out of my head. Part of the point of book nerdom is to be excited over books and wanting them to rock my world.
DeleteStephie (co-blogger- well, main blogger, really) told me when I was picking out a lot of crappy books that seemed just "okay" and being disappointed: "There are millions of millions of books in this world. Don't ever settle for one that you don't think is going to be kick-ass."
DeleteThat's great advice!
DeleteI heard there was a love triangle in this one so I just skipped it. lol
ReplyDeleteKaren @ For What It's Worth
Lol. Blackbird doesn't have a triangle but I'm almost positive the second book will.
Deleteehhh ok I'll stay away I'm not normally for thrillers these days anyhow.
ReplyDeleteYeah you'd be bored with this one.
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