Anna Carey has been a gift wrapper, face painter, nanny, horrific cocktail waitress, sofa saleswoman and children’s book editor. She graduated from New York University and has an MFA in fiction from Brooklyn College. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she can be found writing, reading, and telling elaborate, only moderately interesting stories about her dog. Look for her new series, Blackbird, in Fall 2014.
My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
Blackbird by Anna Carey was an interesting and quick read. It grabbed my attention almost immediately and while initially the story being told in second person threw me off, I found that after a bit I didn’t even notice it. I do think that this is the piece that will make some readers dislike it which would be unfortunate as there is an interesting story here.
The main character is a girl who just happens to wake up lying on some train tracks unable to move. She doesn’t know anything about herself and the only thing that is obvious is that she is in danger and she can’t really trust anyone. As she tries to piece things together based on the little pieces of herself she is carrying around in a backpack, she finds she is being followed by people she doesn’t know and some that even want to kill her.
As I mentioned, the story is told in second person and I expect this was done to help the reader experience things right along with the main character. At first I was a bit distracted by it but as I mentioned, it eventually faded into the background as more and more was being revealed. I loved that because of her amnesia, we were experiencing everything right alongside her.
I do have to say that I felt like nothing was resolved by the end of the book and while I get as a series something needs to be left to tell in the next book, there were so many loose ends when this one wrapped up. Yes we find out a bit more about what has been happening and why (please forgive my vagueness) but we don’t get anything about who the main character really is and that is what I really wanted.
If you like a good mystery and enjoy a thriller, definitely check this one out. It is a fast paced story that drags you along the pages right alongside the main character. I will definitely be checking out the next book in this series and I can’t wait to find out what happens next.
Thank you to Edelweiss and HarperTeen for the review copy.
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