Black Bird, Fly!
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Black Bird, Fly!
Narrated by:
Rhett Samuel Price
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Narrated by:
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Rhett Samuel Price
About this listen
In Alexander, Jane Bolton is burying her husband; Willow Hollis is trying to bury her past; and the rock star, Jett Renick, is returning home. A wild spring will toss them all together when 13-year old Sassy Bolton is kidnapped. The search will uncover dark truths about the small Georgia town, and already broken hearts will be tested by the vicious storms of life.
©2017 Scott Bowers (P)2017 Scott BowersListeners also enjoyed...
Starting with a funeral, we are introduced to the main protagonists, slowly, skillfully, one by one. A rock star who escaped the town years before, now grieving the death of his singer, brings love to one of the inhabitants. Much is as it always has been. Then little Sassy goes missing.
This is a low key mystery story, not all of which is entirely resolved. The characterisations are excellent, almost a verbal snapshot of the town. However, the slowly ongoing story is further delayed by purple passages intermittently scattered throughout the text which, whilst adding a certain overall atmosphere, did not relate to the story itself in any obvious way.
A strange book which this reader found, equally, strangely appealing. And narrator Rhett Samuel Price's performance added to this almost dreamlike quality of sometimes squalid normalcy, his slow paced reading moving through the text almost like one of the black birds observing from above. His voicings of the characters was good and all was nicely, gently intonated and read with an understanding and compassion.
I was freely gifted a complimentary copy of Black Bird Fly, at my request, by the rights holder, via Audiobook Boom. My thanks for it. As I mentioned previously, I found it strangely compelling and, as such, would recommend it as a tiny peek into the life of a small town and the secrets the occupants carry. But not for those looking for a straightforward mystery thriller.
Life has a dark heart
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