Friday Excerpts: The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Today I'll be sharing some book excerpts with these bookish features:

➢ Book Beginnings is a weekly feature (hosted by Rose City Reader) where you post the first sentence of the book you're currently reading. 

➢ The Friday 56 is a weekly feature (hosted by Freda's Voice) where you get a book and turn to page 56 (or 56% on ereader) then post a interesting sentence from that page with no spoilers. 

The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Blurb:

A bewitching, dark and beautiful debut novel about a girl living in the shadow of a mysterious curse. 

It's the accident season, the same time every year. Bones break, skin tears, bruises bloom. 

The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara's life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara's family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items - but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear. 

But why are they so cursed? And how can they break free?

Beginning:

1. 

Elsie is in all my pictures.  I know this because I have looked through all the pictures of me and my family taken in the last seventeen years and she is in them all.

Friday 56 (pages 5 to 6):

Even her hair looks worried, somehow, when her head is turned.  That's quite an accomplishment.  I wonder what my hair looks like when my head is turned.

My Thoughts:

I'm only at the beginning of The Accident Season which is why my Friday 56 quote is from pages 5 to 6 but I'm excited to read more of it since I loved the author's other book, Spellbook of the Lost and Found.  I'm liking the writing a lot and I like how mysterious the book is so far.

Have you read The Accident Season? 

What are your thoughts on the quotes from it?