What the community thinks
summary of 152 ratings (see reviews)
Content warnings
Graphic
Child abuse (2 reviewers), Physical abuse (2 reviewers), Violence (1 reviewer), and Medical trauma (1 reviewer)Moderate
Animal cruelty (1 reviewer), Body horror (1 reviewer), Child abuse (1 reviewer), Confinement (1 reviewer), Mass/school shootings (1 reviewer), and Medical trauma (1 reviewer)Moods
reflective 58%
sad 58%
adventurous 52%
challenging 38%
dark 32%
mysterious 32%
hopeful 20%
tense 17%
inspiring 5%
funny 2%
Pace
medium 44%
Strong character development?
Yes: 82% | It's complicated: 14% | No: 2%Loveable characters?
Yes: 61% | It's complicated: 35% | No: 2%Diverse cast of characters?
Yes: 100%Flaws of characters centre-stage?
Yes: 80% | It's complicated: 14% | No: 5%Average rating
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"This is when your life begins."
Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her; all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky.
A boy, broken by his past.
The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in each other the things they lack. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside of herself.
For both of them, a family.
But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
Buy The Vanished Birds
United States
Bookshop US
Other countries
Bookshop UK
Blackwell's
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"This is when your life begins."
Nia Imani is a woman out of place and outside of time. Decades of travel through the stars are condensed into mere months for her, though the years continue to march steadily onward for everyone she has ever known. Her friends and lovers have aged past her; all she has left is work. Alone and adrift, she lives only for the next paycheck, until the day she meets a mysterious boy, fallen from the sky.
A boy, broken by his past.
The scarred child does not speak, his only form of communication the beautiful and haunting music he plays on an old wooden flute. Captured by his songs and their strange, immediate connection, Nia decides to take the boy in. And over years of starlit travel, these two outsiders discover in each other the things they lack. For him, a home, a place of love and safety. For her, an anchor to the world outside of herself.
For both of them, a family.
But Nia is not the only one who wants the boy. The past hungers for him, and when it catches up, it threatens to tear this makeshift family apart.
What the community thinks
summary of 152 ratings (see reviews)
Content warnings
Graphic
Child abuse (2 reviewers), Physical abuse (2 reviewers), Violence (1 reviewer), and Medical trauma (1 reviewer)Moderate
Animal cruelty (1 reviewer), Body horror (1 reviewer), Child abuse (1 reviewer), Confinement (1 reviewer), Mass/school shootings (1 reviewer), and Medical trauma (1 reviewer)Moods
reflective 58%
sad 58%
adventurous 52%
challenging 38%
dark 32%
mysterious 32%
hopeful 20%
tense 17%
inspiring 5%
funny 2%
Pace
medium 44%
Strong character development?
Yes: 82% | It's complicated: 14% | No: 2%Loveable characters?
Yes: 61% | It's complicated: 35% | No: 2%Diverse cast of characters?
Yes: 100%Flaws of characters centre-stage?
Yes: 80% | It's complicated: 14% | No: 5%Average rating