The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

The accident season is set in Ireland during October, just before Halloween. It is centred around a family and some of their close friends as they navigate their way through what they call The Accident Season. This is when, in the month of October, every year they are more accident prone than usual and their accidents are more serious than they are throughout the rest of the year. 

This particular accident season is predicted by Bea, the witchy best friend of the accident prone family, to be the worst one yet. In the past there were deaths of close family members along with many serious injuries to those who survived but the one that the characters experience in the book is meant to be worse. 

The book on a whole is full of mystery and secrets. The characters are all hiding things from one another and are all trying to solve the mystery that is the accident season. The story is full of twists and turns and questions which get answered in the final few chapters of the book. 

Overall I found that this book was very easy to read and the story was very interesting. It did lack excitement in some areas but it definitely made up for it in others. Moïra Fowley-Doyle is amazing at describing the characters' surrounding to the point where you lose yourself in it. You really do seem to get lost in this book, in more ways than one, but I think that adds to the mystery and atmosphere that the book creates. 

I was able to guess a lot of the twists in this book but that may be because it reminded me of We Were Liars by E. Lockhart. The secrets and the deceit were all very similar but I didn't mind that. It was good to see how two authors can write about two different plots, both containing accidents, and weave similar twists into them but still allowing the book to be unique in its own right, such as the fantasy element that Cara brought into the world of chaos that she was living in. 

I did enjoy this book and loved how Moïra described and explained things. I think this is a book that I could read again too because of all the different elements. I could probably pick up more of the smaller details in the book now knowing all of the aspects of the story.