Blackbird Fly

Blackbird Fly has a little bit of everything in it - a mystery, long held family secrets, humor, loss, grief. It reads easy with a literary feel to it. There is some suspense too with a dash of romance and a feel of an historical novel. It could be described as Women's Fiction, but the novel could b......more

I dragged through the first few chapters of “Blackbird Fly” that finally improved once the protagonist (miraculously...via a new chapter) relocated to France. That non-announced transition and how quickly the author jumped back in time with little regard that the reader hardly knew the characters di......more

Excellent! A very strong book in every way, characters, writing and plot. A very engrossing story that was suspenseful, thought provoking and memorable.......more

I had trouble making up my mind about this book. I was attracted by the setting. The mystery, as it unfolded, was promising. The writing was, at times, engaging and competent. It was not, however, sufficiently focused. There were too many strands, too much village history, especially in the first ha......more

This book comes within a hair's breadth of being great literature; the kind of thing that becomes required reading somewhere along the line. The author, I believe, has the talent to write a book that good, but she doesn't quite hit it here. There is one huge problem; there's a seeming inconsistency i......more