Blackbirds, Chuck Wendig
Blackbirds, Chuck Wendig
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Blackbirds

Author: Chuck Wendig

Narrator: Emily Beresford

Unabridged: 8 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/24/2012


Synopsis

The first book in the Miriam Black series: “A sassy, hard-boiled thriller with a paranormal slant” (The Guardian) about a young woman who can see the darkest corners of the future.Miriam Black knows how you’re going to die. This makes her daily life a living hell, especially when you can’t do anything about it, or stop trying to. She’s foreseen hundreds of car crashes, heart attacks, strokes, and suicides. She merely needs to touch you—skin to skin contact—and she knows how and when your final moments will occur. Miriam has given up trying to save people; that only makes their deaths happen. But then she hitches a ride with Louis Darling and shakes his hand, and she sees in thirty days that Louis will be murdered while he calls her name. Louis will die because he met her, and Miriam will be the next victim. No matter what she does she can’t save Louis. But if she wants to stay alive, she’ll have to try.“Think Six Feet Under co-written by Stephen King and Chuck Palahniuk” (SFX), and you have Blackbirds: a visceral, exciting novel about life on the edge.

About Chuck Wendig

Chuck Wendig is a novelist, screenwriter, and game designer. He’s the author of many published novels, including but not limited to the Miriam Black series, The Blue Blazes, and the young adult series Heartland Trilogy. He is cowriter of the short film Pandemic and the Emmy-nominated digital narrative Collapsus. He is also well known for his profane-yet-practical advice to writers, which he dispenses on his blog, terribleminds.com, and through several popular eBooks, including The Kick-Ass Writer, published by Writer’s Digest. He currently lives in the forest of Pennsyl-tucky with his wife, tiny human, and red dog.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on March 31, 2025

Miriam Black book one - What would you do, if you could see how, and exactly when, someone was going to die, just by touching them? Well Miriam Black has that special talent, but uses it to rob the corpses of people who die alone! But that's just her current role. Miriam Black is a chain-smoking, po......more

Goodreads review by Ɗẳɳ 2.☊ on November 19, 2019

Miriam Black has been given a gift, or is it a curse? With merely the slightest touch, she’s able to see the exact moment and method of your death, but oddly not the where. Such a gift has the potential to be quite useful, right? With a bit of detective work, perhaps she’ll even be able to prevent y......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on March 08, 2016

You may not want to shake hands with Miriam Black. By simply touching anyone Miriam gets a vision of the exact date, time and circumstances of anyone’s death. The bitch of the situation is that she can’t do anything to change it. In fact, by trying to stop it she may actually cause it to occur. Since......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on June 15, 2018

I had some pretty darn strong reactions to reading this. I mean, I already know that Chuck Wendig writes some gritty and hard-hitting unlikable crap-like characters that wallow around in the muck and make even more of it, but that wasn't really where my strong reactions were coming from. Or were they......more