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    The Blackbird Season: A Novel
    The Blackbird Season: A Novel
    The Blackbird Season: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Blackbird Season: A Novel

    Written by Kate Moretti

    Narrated by Joy Osmanski, Rebekkah Ross, Cassandra Campbell and Gibson Frazier

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    “Exceptional…a deliciously sinister glimpse into the duplicity of small-town lives and the ease with which people turn on each other when tragedy comes calling. Moretti's tale of jealousy and obsession is nothing less than dark magic. Witchery indeed." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

    Known for novels featuring “great pacing and true surprises” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) and “nerve-shattering suspense” (Heather Gudenkauf, New York Time bestselling author), New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti’s latest is the story of a scandal-torn Pennsylvania town and the aftermath of a troubled girl gone missing.

    “Where did they come from? Why did they fall? The question would be asked a thousand times…

    Until, of course, more important question arose, at which time everyone promptly forgot that a thousand birds fell on the town of Mount Oanoke at all.”

    In a quiet Pennsylvania town, a thousand dead starlings fall onto a high school baseball field, unleashing a horrifying and unexpected chain of events that will rock the close-knit community.

    Beloved baseball coach and teacher Nate Winters and his wife, Alecia, are well respected throughout town. That is, until one of the many reporters investigating the bizarre bird phenomenon catches Nate embracing a wayward student, Lucia Hamm, in front of a sleazy motel. Lucia soon buoys the scandal by claiming that she and Nate are engaged in an affair, throwing the town into an uproar…and leaving Alecia to wonder if her husband has a second life.

    And when Lucia suddenly disappears, the police only to have one suspect: Nate.

    Nate’s coworker and sole supporter, Bridget Harris, Lucia’s creative writing teacher, is determined to prove his innocence. She has Lucia’s class journal, and while some of the entries appear particularly damning to Nate’s case, others just don’t add up. Bridget knows the key to Nate’s exoneration and the truth of Lucia’s disappearance lie within the walls of the school and in the pages of that journal.

    Told from the alternating points of view of Alecia, Nate, Lucia, and Bridget, The Blackbird Season is a haunting, psychologically nuanced suspense, filled with Kate Moretti’s signature “chillingly satisfying” (Publishers Weekly) twists and turns.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateSep 26, 2017
    ISBN9781508235439
    Author

    Kate Moretti

    Kate Moretti is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and a novella. Her first novel, Thought I Knew You, was a New York Times bestseller. The Vanishing Year was a nominee in the Goodreads Choice Awards mystery/thriller category for 2016 and was called “chillingly satisfying” (Publishers Weekly) with “superb” closing twists (New York Times Book Review). Moretti has worked in the pharmaceutical industry for twenty years as a scientist and enjoys traveling and cooking. She lives in Pennsylvania in an old farmhouse with her husband, two children, and no known ghosts. Her lifelong dream is to find a secret passageway.

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    • 3/5
      Call me old fashioned but I am so tired of this trend where there is not one main character to actually like and root for. I think it was suspenseful but please give me a protagonist I actually like.

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    • 2/5
      Very so-so storyline. But I just couldn't get past the editorial errors in chapter 29. Repeatedly calling Bridget "Mrs. Winters" was like nails on a chalkboard.

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    • 1/5
      Ugh. This was most boring book I’ve ever listened to.
    • 2/5
      There was some thing about the main character and her gross husband being so ableist to their child with autism. It was so uncomfortable to read about how much this child disturbed their perfect lives with their existence. People who think like this are so evil and not one of the characters was likeable.