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Mockingbird
Mockingbird | Chuck Wendig
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Miriam Black is trying to live an ordinary life, keeping her ability to see how someone dies hidden...until a serial killer crosses her path. This is the second book in the Miriam Black series. Visceral and often brutal, this tale vibrates with emotional rawness that helps to paint a bleak, unrelenting picture of life on the edge. Publishers Weekly Miriam is trying. Really, she is. But this whole settling down thing just isnt working out. She lives on Long Beach Island all year in a run-down, double-wide trailer. She works at a grocery store as a checkout girl. And her relationship with Louiswhos on the road half the time in his truckis subject to the mood swings Miriam brings to everything she does. It just isnt going well. Still, shes keeping her psychic abilityto see when and how someone is going to die just by touching themin check. But even that feels wrong somehow. Like shes keeping a tornado stopped up in a tiny bottle. Then comes the one bad day that turns it all on her ear.
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vivastory
Mockingbird | Chuck Wendig
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It'd be worth starting a winery for the sole purpose of using the name Angry Grape. I think it'd have to be a Red Blend. Or a Merlot.

lahousewyfe Definitely a red blend with majority zinfandel. 5y
Aimeesue I went to a wine tasting once. Most were ok, but i tried one that tasted like… damp cellar. I don't get invited to wine tastings any more. 😁 5y
Bell_Queen Definitely a Merlot for me as well. Loved that paragraph. Thanks for sharing. 5y
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Kerouacthedog
Mockingbird | Chuck Wendig
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Miriam Black is a badass. Mockingbirds are too, no disrespect to Harper Lee. #READATHONANIMAL

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NerdyRev
Mockingbird | Chuck Wendig
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Miriam Black is becoming one of my favorite protagonists. She is sharp, sarcastic, and never passes up a sex joke. She is also deeply wounded and carries around a great responsibility-allow or stop people from dying. This time, she is up against a serial killer who dresses like a bird. This continues the first book, so read it first. My critique is her trespasser acts and sounds a lot like Dexter's Dark Passenger (book, not show) esp. in this book

NerdyRev Added note- lots of trigger warnings in this one- rape and violence against women especially. 7y
BookBoggart I have the original blackbirds cover as a half sleeve tattoo. Love this series! 7y
NerdyRev @BookBoggart The original artwork is so badass. I am sad someone decided to change it. The sleeve must be incredible! 7y
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NerdyRev
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Didn't get much reading in yesterday, but I am really enjoying the second book. Miriam's back to being herself and after the first book's revelation at the end, now must try and stop a serial killer who will kidnap and kill several girls from a boarding school. The question is what will Miriam do now knowing what she knows from book 1? Great shift and great dilemma.

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NerdyRev
Mockingbird | Chuck Wendig
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Although I am done for the night, next up tomorrow in the #readathon, I return to Miriam. I really enjoyed the first one and hope the second is just as good. Good night Littens, happy reading.

Scribd users- it is a Scribd unlimited this month meaning it doesn't count against one of your picks. So is The Troop BTW.

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KevinHearne
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Bookshelf Review #12: This is book 2 of the Miriam Black series, which I love so much I bought them in hardcover after reading in paperback originally.

When Miriam touches you, she knows how and when you're going to die. It's made her a bit antisocial. She's vivid, lurid, unforgiving, and over the course of four books and a novella (I got to read book four a bit early), I'm enthralled with her war against her personal demons.

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ssravp
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I think this is where the Miriam Black train ends for me. A bit too dark for me.