Birdsong

By: Jennifer Brasington-Crowley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 10 hrs and 27 mins

Publisher's summary

It was a Friday evening in May when seventeen-year-old Robin Xavier left his childhood home in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with nothing but a guitar, a stolen credit card, fifty-two ounces of beer, $67.42, fourteen cigarettes, two disposable lighters, two grams of cocaine, one photograph, and a tooth.

A raw and unapologetic coming-of-age story, BirdSong follows the journey of seventeen-year-old Robin Xavier from world-class nobody to world-famous rock star. Coming from an abusive childhood home, Robin’s mental and physical scars haunt him incessantly, and the only relief he can find is in a bottle. Broke, addicted, but determined, young Robin boards a Greyhound bus for a cross-country quest to search for his runaway sister.

Follow Robin as he faces love and loss, friendship and monsters, hope and demons, and a fame he could never have imagined.The exciting prequel to Raven Song spans two decades of sin and salvation. BirdSong is sex, drugs and rock n roll at its finest.

Trigger Warnings: This book contains explicit language, drug use, sexual situations, attempted sexual assault, child abuse and violence. Not intended for readers under 18.

Wow i am loving the depth of this series!

🚨Spoilers🚨

This is book 2 in the series and i would like to start with the art work on the front of the book. It is very clever. It’s a robins bird egg shell and bloody tooth and it more than represents this books birth and rebirth.

This book is about Raven and how he became who he is. It’s a sad book really. This poor human has been through so many things. Poor upbringing, drug addict father and it seams like his mother suffered some sort of had injury then was totally lost to drugs as well and then death. He was physically, mentally and sexually abused, extremely neglected by his father and his father’s friends, and he had to watch his sister be abused in every way as well and when he tried to defend her he was just about killed from his father, so then he just had to watch and listen to his sisters abuse, his only true friend at this point, be completely destroyed as a human and then abandon by her when she ran away just to be able to save herself from the worst things in life. I think she probably thought if she left she could save them both but sadly that isn’t what happens, “Robin” must save himself and from those ashes rises Raven.

This whole book is watching the phoenix rise. Raven doesn’t know anything about anything. From the most basic things like comfort or relationships. He also has no idea how talented he truly is until gets a taste of the fame and then a match is lit and his future is set into motion. He tries so many different relationships trying to find the pieces of himself that are missing. It is hard to see him so drug addicted and lost. His band became the family he so desperately needs and he makes some amazing friends along the way, but when he takes several personal blows to his psyche it really seams all is lost then he meets Stanzie. This book is all the unanswered questions of the first book its sorta the pre-quill, as if the book were written backwards. I see some good in doing this because it makes you want the next book if nothing else just to find the lost bits from the first book, but i think i would have enjoyed it just as much if i read this one first and the 1st book second.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️= absolutely loved it.
🌶️= I would really like a 1/2 pepper option, much more sex and sexual things but none of it is extremely detailed.
⚠️= there are so many triggers in this book, rape, rape of a minor, unintended sex with a minor, mental abuse, sexual abuse, physical abuse, drug addiction, animal abuse, suicide, attempted suicide, loss of loved ones. Some of this is more detailed, some just glossed over. Just be aware.
🔊= audio book
💲= own it

The Narrator was again a computer generated voice but it was done well.

I am very excited to get to the 3rd book. So off to the next book 📖 in the series.