Title: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Author: Michelle Hodkin
Published: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 452
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
Mara Dyer wakes up in the hospital, not remembering how she got there. Her mother tells her she's been in an accident, and that the same accident killed all her friends. She, however, got away with nothing more than a few bruises.
To get away from it all, Mara and her family moves to a different town. However, Mara can't run from everything; and when she's starts seeing her friends staring back at her in the mirror, walking around school, she starts losing her mind.
Review:
Phew! This is certainly an exciting and interesting story. I really love reading about Mara and her struggle with post-traumatic stress syndrome. You never really know if she's making things up or not, and there are several parts of the book where I thought: real or not? This adds something really interesting to this story, and was my favorite part.
I have to admit, in the middle of the book, things started slowing down a little for me. I was a little annoyed with how stereotypical some of the characters were, and of course Mara falls for the popular mysterious Noah Shaw that everyone warns her to stay away from and of course he isn't what everyone thinks he is, and of course she gets into drama with one of the popular, beautiful girls at school and of course this girl picks on her. I found the love bit of the story to be unfulfilling and annoying and it could have been better.
So for a good while, I thought that this wasn't going to get a good rating from me. Then, the last 100 pages or so had me glued to the pages. I did not see it coming.
The ending left me really excited to read the next book, so I might have to get my hands on that real soon.
I would definitely recommend this to people who like young adult, romance and mystery, with a tad of paranormal thrown into the mix.
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Author: Michelle Hodkin
Published: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 452
Rating: 4/5
Summary:
Mara Dyer wakes up in the hospital, not remembering how she got there. Her mother tells her she's been in an accident, and that the same accident killed all her friends. She, however, got away with nothing more than a few bruises.
To get away from it all, Mara and her family moves to a different town. However, Mara can't run from everything; and when she's starts seeing her friends staring back at her in the mirror, walking around school, she starts losing her mind.
Review:
Phew! This is certainly an exciting and interesting story. I really love reading about Mara and her struggle with post-traumatic stress syndrome. You never really know if she's making things up or not, and there are several parts of the book where I thought: real or not? This adds something really interesting to this story, and was my favorite part.
I have to admit, in the middle of the book, things started slowing down a little for me. I was a little annoyed with how stereotypical some of the characters were, and of course Mara falls for the popular mysterious Noah Shaw that everyone warns her to stay away from and of course he isn't what everyone thinks he is, and of course she gets into drama with one of the popular, beautiful girls at school and of course this girl picks on her. I found the love bit of the story to be unfulfilling and annoying and it could have been better.
So for a good while, I thought that this wasn't going to get a good rating from me. Then, the last 100 pages or so had me glued to the pages. I did not see it coming.
The ending left me really excited to read the next book, so I might have to get my hands on that real soon.
I would definitely recommend this to people who like young adult, romance and mystery, with a tad of paranormal thrown into the mix.
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