Blackbird | 
so-soN D Gomes‘s contemporary crime fiction YA has some interesting ideas and I believed in Alex‘s grief but it also veered a little too close to melodrama and cliche for my tastes (notably in the dancing metaphors for Olivia, which I thought were overdone) while I never really believed in the relationship between Alex and Birkins and the mystery element lacked tension such that I didn‘t really feel invested in the final reveal.
I'm so excited to have won this gorgeous book from Harlequin Teen Australia in an instagram giveaway! It's going straight to my 2018 TBR!
My name is Alex. I am fifteen years old, and I don't know where my sister is. Or if she will ever come back.
On New Year's Eve 5,000 blackbirds dropped dead. The same day Olivia McCarthy went missing from a small coastal village in Orkney.
Now Her younger sister Alex is on a mission to find out just what happened to Olivia. But does she really want to know all the answers?
