Review: Blackbird by Anna Carey

Release Date: September 16, 2014

Publisher:  HarperTeen
Pages: 256
Source: eARC for Review

ISBN-10: 0062299735 

Rating: 4 Hearts

Book Description

"This twisty, breathless cat-and-mouse thrill ride, told in the second person, follows a girl with amnesia in present-day Los Angeles who is being pursued by mysterious and terrifying assailants.

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.

The Maze Runner series meets Code Name Verity, Blackbird is relentless and action-packed, filled with surprising twists."

Review

Short and Sweet:

This book is crazy! It was like a 'choose-your-own-adventure' story full of twists and turns you get to be a part of. A thrilling book that is incredibly hard to put down!

To Elaborate...

Blackbird had me at page 1. I was immediately swept up. My heart literally pounded as the nameless main character struggled to figure out who she was, what to do and most of all: why people were trying to kill her. Intriguingly, the entire story is told in second-person. So this story is happening to you, the reader. I can see how this could have gone horribly wrong, but it didn't. I loved every moment.

The MC is just the right combination of qualities that the reader can relate to and then 'slip into her shoes.' I identified with her reactions to the unending onslaught of terrifying circumstances and information. I could imagine the disorienting feeling of knowing nothing apart from the fact that you are in mortal danger and that there is no one to help you. And I can only hope that I would be half as resourceful and brave as Blackbird's mystery girl in such a dramatic scenario.

Eventually, memories do begin returning to her and we piece together what is happening. But the why's and the how's continue to elude even as the danger is closing in during those final pages. The story comes to a dramatic close with the introducing of a character that promises to increase the drama as well as (hopefully) illuminate answers to remaining questions in book 2. I am SO looking forward to what happens next! A fantastically different story that left me craving more!

4 Hearts!

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