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The Accident Season by Moïra Fowley-Doyle

Every October, accidents stalk one family like fate—and this year, the bruises hide deeper secrets. Lush, eerie, and achingly romantic, The Accident Season blurs the line between superstition and truth.

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In The Accident Season, did you enjoy ...

... the eerie, unexplained magic that feels like a curse woven into everyday life?

Bone Gap by Laura Ruby

If the family’s "accident season" and the way Elsie flickers through photos gripped you, you’ll love how Bone Gap lets reality slip at the edges—cornfields whisper, a beautiful woman vanishes, and Finn’s strange way of seeing becomes the key to a rescue. Like Cara, Finn pieces together a mystery that feels more like folklore than fact, with danger lurking in ordinary places and love complicated by the uncanny.

... lush, dreamlike prose that turns memory and myth into something intimate and haunting?

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

If you were swept up by Cara’s lyrical voice—the river scenes, the Halloween masks, the sense that childhood stories can bite—The Ocean at the End of the Lane will cast the same spell. A man revisits his childhood, where Lettie Hempstock’s "ocean" and a malevolent nanny blur nightmare and memory, much like the way the accident season folds folklore into the Fox family’s secrets.

... the slow, disorienting reveal of truth from a narrator you can’t fully trust?

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

If Cara’s fractured recollections about Elsie and the buried truth of her family’s past hooked you, We Were Liars delivers that same vertigo. Cadence returns to her family’s private island, sifting through hazy memories and unspoken rules until the final, devastating reveal—echoing the way the accident season’s mysteries snap into focus all at once.

... a tight focus on a small, secretive family where love and danger tangle together?

The Weight of Feathers by Anna-Marie McLemore

If you were drawn to Cara, Alice, Sam, and Bea’s insular rituals and the forbidden tenderness amid danger—like the party of masks and the risks near the river—The Weight of Feathers mirrors that intimacy. Two rival performance families live by their own myths and curses, and the forbidden bond between Lace and Cluck carries the same clandestine, high-stakes ache as Cara and Sam.

... rich, symbolic imagery that turns family history into myth?

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton

If the masks, antlers, and the river’s pull in The Accident Season felt like symbols of truth and danger—and if Elsie’s presence read like trauma made visible—The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender will resonate. Wings, omens, and a bakery steeped in memory transform a family’s generations into myth, culminating in an emotional reckoning that echoes Cara’s final reveal.

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