Title: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
GoodReads Summary:
Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.
It can.
She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.
There is.
She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love.
She’s wrong.
My thoughts:
Okay the first thing I
thought when I saw this book was “uhh” I mean honestly, the cover is stinkin’
weird. Like seriously, it just doesn’t give me the right feeling, and goodreads
makes it sound like some sob story. You know where the main character, who’s
been tortured and is broken inside learns to love again? Blah. Major pass on
that. But I kept seeing it, and thinking about it, and I’ve heard really great
things about this book. The cover may be creepy in a weird kinda way, but I
mean, it does latch on to your mind. I kept seeing this book, over and over,
and figured I might as well get this over with. So last night, I picked it up
and started to read.
I don’t really know how
to explain this story. Mara the main character wakes up in a hospital and finds
out that the building she was in, along with her boyfriend, his sister, and her
best friend collapsed. And the fact that she’s the only one who made it out
alive. Which could set anyone off the deep end really, she convinces her
parents to move to Miami to give her a new start, so move they do. She attends
a private school, makes a few friends and starts uncovering what really
happened the night her friends died. The thing I most like about this book is
it’s totally unpredictable.
Now, when I say unpredictable,
I mean seriously, I could not even guess what would happen in the next chapter.
Things kept getting mixed up and as soon as I thought things were going to be
solved I’d realize there are ten more chapters and I’m probably wrong. My
biggest mistake was wondering what on earth the sequel could possibly be about
because everything was going to be solved. WRONG. Giant cliff hanger, like
total end of the cliff, I would’ve feel off of said cliff if I didn’t know I
could read the sequel right now.
What I think really made
this book was the awesome characters. Noah, Mara, Daniel, everyone was awesome.
Mara was the right amount of sassy, sincere, and cautious, Daniel is the most
awesome older brother anyone could ever ask for. In fact, I’d love for mine to
start being as caring and all around amazing like Daniel. Noah was enough dark
and mysterious to stir anyone’s interest, and really kept me guessing. Another
really awesome thing about this book was its diction, I mean Hodkin pulled off
the right amount of teen profanity, yet managed to get some SAT prep words in
there. It wasn’t the annoying kind where someone uses the word “ostentatious”
as an insult. I mean, there were words I didn’t even know, and it just flowed
really really well in writing. Our characters are AP English students; we
should see some smarty pants thrown around.
Overall, I give this
book a 5. It’s really great and I can’t wait to start the sequel.
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