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3.95 AVERAGE
3.95 AVERAGE
I HAVE FINISHED THE RETRIBUTION OF MARA DYER. SPOILERS. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.
"MY NAME IS NOT MARA DYER, BUT MY LAWYER TOLD ME I HAD TO CHOOSE SOMETHING." I'M FEELIN' REAL NOSTALGIC, Y'ALL.
I??? Don't even remember how I found out about this series??? But it was the tail end of last year sometime, because I got the first two for Christmas. And I really loved Unbecoming. And then Evolution was great until the end and then I had to sit around and wait almost a year to get to this point with Retribution in my hands and now finished. I was worried because of the whole "the gig's up!" stuff at the end of Evolution that Retribution would...taper off, and be silly. It sort of did and it sort of didn't. I think maybe it's just a matter of me inhaling it so I may have missed important points.
As far as I understood, the Hero/Shadow thing was like a science experiment basically. And then we have mad Dr. Kells doing more science to try and fix the kids because of David. But where did the first special kid come from, I think I missed that. And in the end did it even really matter (shut up, Linkin Park), everything that had happened, because Mara and Noah stayed together and are maybe gunna end the world with their love? I'm fuzzy on the details. I don't know, the segment with David in the warehouse place and the details about Noah's inception were just kind of blurry to me, despite rereading paragraphs a few times. I feel like I missed an important factor in all this because the story seems to end well enough.
My other kind of quiet beef with this one is Jude?! I think it was supposed to be that like the drugs / his manifestation was making him go crazy, but there at the end, that was supposed to be like, normal!Jude? Or like notcrazy!Jude? I felt like we were supposed to feel bad for him, like he'd been mind controlled this whole time, but I didn't feel sad. And then he just died. One swipe and a chapter break later and Jude's dead. It felt anticlimactic.
All that said, I still really liked this book. I love Michelle's dialogue, and her grasp on humor among like, some real messed up things that are happening. I don't think this one was as creepy as the other two, though. The first are like spooky nightmares and this one felt like a gory horror film. I liked that Jamie was in it more. I suspect others are sad Noah wasn't in it more, but I was perfectly fine having all Jamie all the time, he's hilarious. Although - what's gunna come of Jamie? Since he's used his ability so much? I feel like everyone was just like "we don't need to worry about this anymore YOLO" and somehow that magically fixed everything... But there was no cure... And aren't they dangerous... I know a solid 1/5 of the end was dedicated to knowing and accepting who you are but if you're a ticking time bomb like shouldn't you get that checked out.
One last other random thing. When we're introduced to Noah's perspective, it's in first person, present tense. Mara is first person, past tense. But then the epilogue, we switch to first person present tense but with Mara's point of view still. That was a weird stylist choice to me. Books teach us how to read them. So when it was almost like a third perspective I felt mildly off balance for a hot sec. I don't know???
I feel like I'm just ragging. Let me stress I did enjoy this book and I think the series is worth reading in full, I'm just suffering from post traumatic I Just Finished A Series And I Don't Know What To Do Now syndrome. There were a lot of solid quotes from this one. Oh, and I absolutely loved all the random like fandom references, with Dumbledore/Gandalf, and Marvel, and superheroes in general, etc., etc. A+. I laughed. I cried. It was a good time. [dabs single tear] I will you miss, Mara.
In the end, I think I'm gunna stick with the three stars, because four seems a little too generous, even though three seems too harsh. It's a solid 3.5. Pushing 3.7. Just, I have enough questions still to not quite give it rightfully four stars. Still worth finishing! Even if just because of the humor in such a dark series.
"MY NAME IS NOT MARA DYER, BUT MY LAWYER TOLD ME I HAD TO CHOOSE SOMETHING." I'M FEELIN' REAL NOSTALGIC, Y'ALL.
I??? Don't even remember how I found out about this series??? But it was the tail end of last year sometime, because I got the first two for Christmas. And I really loved Unbecoming. And then Evolution was great until the end and then I had to sit around and wait almost a year to get to this point with Retribution in my hands and now finished. I was worried because of the whole "the gig's up!" stuff at the end of Evolution that Retribution would...taper off, and be silly. It sort of did and it sort of didn't. I think maybe it's just a matter of me inhaling it so I may have missed important points.
As far as I understood, the Hero/Shadow thing was like a science experiment basically. And then we have mad Dr. Kells doing more science to try and fix the kids because of David. But where did the first special kid come from, I think I missed that. And in the end did it even really matter (shut up, Linkin Park), everything that had happened, because Mara and Noah stayed together and are maybe gunna end the world with their love? I'm fuzzy on the details. I don't know, the segment with David in the warehouse place and the details about Noah's inception were just kind of blurry to me, despite rereading paragraphs a few times. I feel like I missed an important factor in all this because the story seems to end well enough.
My other kind of quiet beef with this one is Jude?! I think it was supposed to be that like the drugs / his manifestation was making him go crazy, but there at the end, that was supposed to be like, normal!Jude? Or like notcrazy!Jude? I felt like we were supposed to feel bad for him, like he'd been mind controlled this whole time, but I didn't feel sad. And then he just died. One swipe and a chapter break later and Jude's dead. It felt anticlimactic.
All that said, I still really liked this book. I love Michelle's dialogue, and her grasp on humor among like, some real messed up things that are happening. I don't think this one was as creepy as the other two, though. The first are like spooky nightmares and this one felt like a gory horror film. I liked that Jamie was in it more. I suspect others are sad Noah wasn't in it more, but I was perfectly fine having all Jamie all the time, he's hilarious. Although - what's gunna come of Jamie? Since he's used his ability so much? I feel like everyone was just like "we don't need to worry about this anymore YOLO" and somehow that magically fixed everything... But there was no cure... And aren't they dangerous... I know a solid 1/5 of the end was dedicated to knowing and accepting who you are but if you're a ticking time bomb like shouldn't you get that checked out.
One last other random thing. When we're introduced to Noah's perspective, it's in first person, present tense. Mara is first person, past tense. But then the epilogue, we switch to first person present tense but with Mara's point of view still. That was a weird stylist choice to me. Books teach us how to read them. So when it was almost like a third perspective I felt mildly off balance for a hot sec. I don't know???
I feel like I'm just ragging. Let me stress I did enjoy this book and I think the series is worth reading in full, I'm just suffering from post traumatic I Just Finished A Series And I Don't Know What To Do Now syndrome. There were a lot of solid quotes from this one. Oh, and I absolutely loved all the random like fandom references, with Dumbledore/Gandalf, and Marvel, and superheroes in general, etc., etc. A+. I laughed. I cried. It was a good time. [dabs single tear] I will you miss, Mara.
In the end, I think I'm gunna stick with the three stars, because four seems a little too generous, even though three seems too harsh. It's a solid 3.5. Pushing 3.7. Just, I have enough questions still to not quite give it rightfully four stars. Still worth finishing! Even if just because of the humor in such a dark series.
I sort of liked this one. It was okay, but it wasn't as well written. I didn't like the ending because it left me feeling empty and guilty. I read it pretty fast, but after waiting for this book for almost two year I guess I was expecting a little more.
3.5/5*
erhmmm this book made me confused although now I understand why there's three more books after this. Am I going to continue with the series? definitely because I have a few questions unanswered but not until near future.
erhmmm this book made me confused although now I understand why there's three more books after this. Am I going to continue with the series? definitely because I have a few questions unanswered but not until near future.
Por algo Michelle Hodkin es una de mis autoras favoritas.
Para empezar, tarde muchísimo en empezar a leer el libro (porque ya tiene bastantito que salió y yo dije que lo iba a leer en cuanto lo tuviera pero no lo hice... larga historia del porque) pero en cuanto empecé no pare y ahora 8 horas después de haber empezado estoy sufriendo y sonriendo como una loca.
Me ha gustado mucho, aclaró toda la historia pero aún así hay cosas que sigo dudando y preguntándome, me gustó mucho que no sucediera lo esperado y que hubieran unos plot twist por ahí,, no pude parar de leer porque todo el libro es muy interesante y te mantiene con ganas de saber más de la historia.
El final me dejó igual de sorprendida y sin saber realmente como reaccionar que el principio del primer libro, osea que empecé y terminé la trilogía igual de emocionada.
Tenía más o menos 2 meses que no leía NADA, por lo menos no terminaba ningún libro tenía un bloqueo de lectura super horrible y cada vez que empezaba a leer me dormía o me aburría pero por fin salí de esos oscuros días y siento que ya voy a volver a leer super seguido otra vez... Eso y que estoy de vacaciones y puedo desestresarme por las clases y así.
Anyways... Me encantó, no digo que me gustaría saber más sobre el futuro de Mara y todos porque siento que el final estuvo como perfecto y así, pero si a Michelle se le antoja publicar otro libro de Mara Dyer sin duda alguna estaré feliz de leerlo.
4/5.
Para empezar, tarde muchísimo en empezar a leer el libro (porque ya tiene bastantito que salió y yo dije que lo iba a leer en cuanto lo tuviera pero no lo hice... larga historia del porque) pero en cuanto empecé no pare y ahora 8 horas después de haber empezado estoy sufriendo y sonriendo como una loca.
Me ha gustado mucho, aclaró toda la historia pero aún así hay cosas que sigo dudando y preguntándome, me gustó mucho que no sucediera lo esperado y que hubieran unos plot twist por ahí,
Spoiler
Excepto con la muerte de Noah, sabía que no podía estar muerto y aunque si se nos muere, al final revive y todos somos felicesEl final me dejó igual de sorprendida y sin saber realmente como reaccionar que el principio del primer libro, osea que empecé y terminé la trilogía igual de emocionada.
Tenía más o menos 2 meses que no leía NADA, por lo menos no terminaba ningún libro tenía un bloqueo de lectura super horrible y cada vez que empezaba a leer me dormía o me aburría pero por fin salí de esos oscuros días y siento que ya voy a volver a leer super seguido otra vez... Eso y que estoy de vacaciones y puedo desestresarme por las clases y así.
Anyways... Me encantó, no digo que me gustaría saber más sobre el futuro de Mara y todos porque siento que el final estuvo como perfecto y así, pero si a Michelle se le antoja publicar otro libro de Mara Dyer sin duda alguna estaré feliz de leerlo.
4/5.
This book was new and refreshing. When starting the series I knew nothing of the premise and was honestly expecting a dystopian. Obviously that is not what I got.
I'm not even gonna try and deny the fact that the end of this book had me balling. I finished it in twelve hours, because I just could not put it down!
But there were a few things that were unresolved, at least for me.
*SPOILERS*
1. What about Jude? Like we see a whole new side of him when he sets Mara free at the beginning of the book, but then it doesn't really talk about that again. Maybe it's just me.
2. What do Noah and Mara decide to do? It's pretty obvious they want to stay together, but do they try and change the world, but together? Like what do they do about the necklaces?
Actually that was it, but yeah. Amazing book.
I'm not even gonna try and deny the fact that the end of this book had me balling. I finished it in twelve hours, because I just could not put it down!
But there were a few things that were unresolved, at least for me.
*SPOILERS*
1. What about Jude? Like we see a whole new side of him when he sets Mara free at the beginning of the book, but then it doesn't really talk about that again. Maybe it's just me.
2. What do Noah and Mara decide to do? It's pretty obvious they want to stay together, but do they try and change the world, but together? Like what do they do about the necklaces?
Actually that was it, but yeah. Amazing book.
Holy fuck.
This book really messed with my head, but I love it.
This book really messed with my head, but I love it.
This is a love story. Twisted and messy. Flawed and screwed up. But it's ours. It's us. I don't know how our story will end, but I know how it will start.
I'm having a hard time writing a review for this that doesn't include spoilers. I went through a myriad of emotions reading this; I was hopeless, angry and gutted. There were times that I didn't like Mara very much but in the end I was left feeling happy and satisfied.
I'm having a hard time writing a review for this that doesn't include spoilers. I went through a myriad of emotions reading this; I was hopeless, angry and gutted. There were times that I didn't like Mara very much but in the end I was left feeling happy and satisfied.
kinda bummed i lost interest near the end because the entire book until then literally had me on the edge of my seat, pacing around the room, and rocking back and forth on the floor. in disbelief. still a 5 star tho.
i have also never read TWO 400-500 page books in one day!
i have also never read TWO 400-500 page books in one day!
Some series as they progress get boring, monotonous even. But a diamonds in the rough get better and better, not worse. This is one of those books. I wish it was longer than its 472 pages, each deep and thought out. The characters develop from children in the first book to adults in the last one. Arfhhhhhdjd I cant wait for the next book.