#BlogTour-‘Black Wings’ by Megan Hart

About The Book….

Briella Blake has always been wicked smart.

When she’s invited to attend a special school for gifted students, she finally has the chance to focus on a project that begins to consume her – the ability to recreate and save copies of a person’s entire set of memories.

Her friendship with a raven that’s as smart as she is leads to conflict with her mother Marian, who is no longer able to deny that there’s something wrong with her child. 

My thanks to Anne Cater of Random Things for having me on board the blogtour for ‘Black WIngs’ by Megan Hart.

Marian is married to Dean, and in a co-parenting arrangement with her ex, Tommy who is Brielle’s father. As Briella grows up, she has noticed, as have her teachers, health visitors and drs that Briella is super smart, and when she starts school, she is put on the gifted programme.
Constant worry about making ends meet versus Tommy being held up as a paragon of virtue and a endless wallet causes friction between Dean, Briella’s step father and Marian is caught between them.

The house is constantly on a knife edge, Briella has no friends at school and whilst Marian tries no to panic that her daughter is different to a point where she is a concern.Her worries are confirmed when she befriends a raven whom she names Onyx, and who, bizarrely, saves Briella’s life. And then things begin to get really strange…

‘Black WIngs’ is so well written, there is a creeping sense of menace where you are unsure if Marian is an over protective mother, is Briella super clever or a danger to herself and others? The raven is known in classical mythology as a psychopomp, a device used to great effect in ‘The Dark Half’ by Stephen King.

Is Onyx there for good reasons or bad? How will Brielle react when Marian falls pregnant and why are there suddenly deaths and accidents happening around them?

Marian is a fabulously drawn character, she fiercely loves her daughter and fights for her depite not always understanding her own child. Briella tells her on many occasions that she is smarter than her and she absolutely runs rings around Dean, Marian and Tommy.

In this family situation, Megan Hart has constructed a seamless sense of unease and tension that tightens itself around the reader , like a noose, until freeing you on the very last page…or does she?

Read ‘Black Wings’ and find out….

About The Author….

Megan Hart is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of more than thirty novels, novellas, and short stories.

Some of them use a lot of bad words, but most of the other words are okay.

Her work has been published in almost every genre, including contemporary fiction, horror, romantic suspense, and erotica.

She can’t live without music, the Internet, or the ocean, but she and soda have achieved an amicable uncoupling.

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