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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
There are a lot of 4 and 5 star ratings for this book and makes me wonder if I missed something. I didn't think the book was horrible, but it wasn't amazing either. It was just ok. I had a love / hate relationship with the first book of the trilogy, but the second book was better so I had high hopes for the final book. I just feel that this could have been so much better than what it ended up being. It had the elements of an awesome finale but it just didn't deliver. And I feel like there were so many questions left unanswered. What happened to Noah's father and Stella. What happens with Horizons? Does the research continue? Overall, I think the entire trilogy had all the ingredients to be amazing, but it was just mediocre.
Rating: 3,5/5 stars.
I was too weirded out and confused by this book to give it 4 stars. I liked the epilogue of the book probably the most.
I might add more to this review later on.
I was too weirded out and confused by this book to give it 4 stars. I liked the epilogue of the book probably the most.
I might add more to this review later on.
Okay, so I have to be honest here. The Retribution of Mara Dyer felt really disappointing in comparison to the other two novels. If you haven't read the first two and are planning to read them, you might want to stop here because there will be spoilers for things that happened in the first two books (but no spoilers for book 3!).
Just like the second book, the third installment picks up right where the last one left off. Mara knows now that the powers she has are because of genetic markers and experiments that were done on a number of people, including Noah, Jude, and Jamie. Dr. Kells was in on the entire thing, which is why she was forced to stay at the Horizons center. In the last book, we find Mara trying to escape from Horizons and Kells, and understand how their powers came to be, and why they were chosen.
Mostly, I felt bored. I felt like I should be really excited to see the conclusion of the story, but a lot of the time I wanted to put the book down and walk away because it was so tediously boring. I used to love Mara as the main character, but I didn't like her in 97% of this book. I know she'd been through a lot, which naturally will change someone a little bit, but I felt like she wasn't at all the girl she started out to be, and that didn't work for me. She felt vindictive, petty, and self centered, which is not at all the girl she started out being.
I also felt like there were a lot of things that felt unresolved and that there were questions that weren't answered. I get that not all of them were important, but I felt like the only stories that got wrapped up were Mara's, Jamie's, Noah's, and Daniel's. What happened to Noah's dad and Mara's family? What about Stella? And the Professor? NO CLOSURE. I could seriously list 5 more things that we didn't get closure on, but I shall refrain. Like, I literally feel like the closure that existed was to wrap up Mara and Noah's romance, and without giving anything away, it felt so cheesy.
I can't say I loved this book. I'm honestly not sure if I even liked it. A great big MEH is what it gets from me.
Just like the second book, the third installment picks up right where the last one left off. Mara knows now that the powers she has are because of genetic markers and experiments that were done on a number of people, including Noah, Jude, and Jamie. Dr. Kells was in on the entire thing, which is why she was forced to stay at the Horizons center. In the last book, we find Mara trying to escape from Horizons and Kells, and understand how their powers came to be, and why they were chosen.
Mostly, I felt bored. I felt like I should be really excited to see the conclusion of the story, but a lot of the time I wanted to put the book down and walk away because it was so tediously boring. I used to love Mara as the main character, but I didn't like her in 97% of this book. I know she'd been through a lot, which naturally will change someone a little bit, but I felt like she wasn't at all the girl she started out to be, and that didn't work for me. She felt vindictive, petty, and self centered, which is not at all the girl she started out being.
I also felt like there were a lot of things that felt unresolved and that there were questions that weren't answered. I get that not all of them were important, but I felt like the only stories that got wrapped up were Mara's, Jamie's, Noah's, and Daniel's. What happened to Noah's dad and Mara's family? What about Stella? And the Professor? NO CLOSURE. I could seriously list 5 more things that we didn't get closure on, but I shall refrain. Like, I literally feel like the closure that existed was to wrap up Mara and Noah's romance, and without giving anything away, it felt so cheesy.
I can't say I loved this book. I'm honestly not sure if I even liked it. A great big MEH is what it gets from me.
Wait.. What?
My brain feels numb. That ending!!! Although this wasn't my favorite book in the series, it was a really great ending. I have never read a series as fast as I read this one. So good. So so very good!!
My brain feels numb. That ending!!! Although this wasn't my favorite book in the series, it was a really great ending. I have never read a series as fast as I read this one. So good. So so very good!!
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It's been a while, but I remember being so pissed at the cliffhanger at the end of The Evolution of Mara Dyer. So much that I wanted to chuck the library book against the wall and cry, "You can't have killed Noah! There's no way he's dead!" I must say that The Retribution of Mara Dyer, though, satisfies that evil cliffhanger ending. It's a dark book, one that's enthralling but difficult to read, and I spent a lot of my time with my hand pressed to my mouth, hoping that something awful wouldn't happen. I almost cried near the end, but I loved the epilogue--I'm a sucker for stories that come full circle.
Definitely, 100% satisfying end to the trilogy. There were lots of revelations that I wasn't expecting (and some that I didn't actually like all that much, but seemed to fit somehow anyway), and the creepiness factor of the first two books increased tenfold.
There was a lot of blood in this book. And I really liked it. Mostly because of the dry, somewhat sarcastic way it was described that somehow made the situations funny instead of horrific. That may be in part because of the audiobook, though. Either way, I thought it was a really good tactic to use because it was both in-character for Mara to describe things that way and made things a bit less gross. Thumbs up for that.
I also really liked the suspense of not knowing where Noah was or what happened to him, and how that suspense was so personal for Mara and carried the story along as we discovered more about the main plot. Noah's mysterious fate and whereabouts were almost impossible to solve, and kept me intrigued as we learned about the various twists and turns of Horizons and what exactly Dr. Kells had been doing all along. Everything got tangled up together, and there were so many layers to the mysteries. This book had a lot going on, but it never felt overwhelming.
The character development throughout this book in particular, and the series as a whole, was really interesting to follow. I really feel like I got to know these characters personally. Each book was, I felt, an improvement on the last in terms of quality.
There was a lot of blood in this book. And I really liked it. Mostly because of the dry, somewhat sarcastic way it was described that somehow made the situations funny instead of horrific. That may be in part because of the audiobook, though. Either way, I thought it was a really good tactic to use because it was both in-character for Mara to describe things that way and made things a bit less gross. Thumbs up for that.
I also really liked the suspense of not knowing where Noah was or what happened to him, and how that suspense was so personal for Mara and carried the story along as we discovered more about the main plot. Noah's mysterious fate and whereabouts were almost impossible to solve, and kept me intrigued as we learned about the various twists and turns of Horizons and what exactly Dr. Kells had been doing all along. Everything got tangled up together, and there were so many layers to the mysteries. This book had a lot going on, but it never felt overwhelming.
The character development throughout this book in particular, and the series as a whole, was really interesting to follow. I really feel like I got to know these characters personally. Each book was, I felt, an improvement on the last in terms of quality.