Reviews with content warning for Suicide attempt - The Retribution of Mara Dyer

i’ve absolutely fallen in love with this world and these characters, i wanna give them all huge hugs.

this book in particular is my favorite of the series, the ending was amazing, and it was definitely a finger nail biter 😭

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dark emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

and they will love each other to ruins!!!!! what a ride what a fun rag tag group of friends

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

rating- 4.5*
It takes a lot for me to like a book enough to finish it in 2 days even while I'm sick. This finale to the series was amazing. The writing was fast paced and the plot was interesting throughout. The trio of Mara, Jamie and Stella figuring stuff out together was everything I could've wanted. The story buildup, the investigation scenes and the absolutely insane parts of the book I loved it all. This series is all about the writing tbh. It's genuinely very well written. I loved how it got all sci-fi and I loved the flashback parts. Some of the stuff written is genuinely creepy and messed up so that was pretty interesting. It sort of gave me verity vibes from the way the creepy scenes were written.
I clearly ate this book up so i do recommend it, but i'm not sure if i'll end up rereading it ever. The writing though. gonna be thinking about that for a while.

Some things that weren't great:
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After Stella leaves Mara and Jamie there is no mention of what happened to her?? like that's such a big lose end specially since she's such a big part of this book.

- the actual plot twist at the end was not even that great?? It wasn't predictable necessarily but i didn't like it either.

Noah's dad has literally NOT A SINGLE dialogue the whole series and then somehow he turns out to be the bad guy behind it all? like sure it makes sense the way it's written but it didn't fit well tbh. At one point i literally started expecting Daniel to be the mastermind lmao

- i do not like it when author's tell the whole story from one person's perspective and then randomly start doing two person perspective at the end.
- i reallyy didn't mind the marshaw romance in the last two books, but somehow in the end of this book the romance was insufferable for me. It was cringe and just not great except maybe one scene.
Also it was weird how Mara and Noah were basically taking up all the story before but then this book completely shifted to not having Noah most of the story, it felt a bit inconsistent.

that part in the end where Mara talks about writing her story and then says that "its a love story" it made me cringe so hard, other stuff about them "needing" each other wasn't great

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

the plot 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 i mean that in a good way. this was CRAZY.
i didn’t like it as much as the last one (i don’t like separation and i missed noah) and it brought back some of the writing from the first book i didn’t like. but i was THOROUGHLY entertained!

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selinamaria's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

4.75 ⭐️
It has been said that there must be a villain for every hero, a demon for every angel, a monster for every god. Despite what we are, I do not believe this. I have seen the villainous act heroic, and men called heroes act villainous. The ability to heal does not make one good any more than the ability to kill makes one evil. Kill the right people, and you become a hero. Heal the wrong ones, and you become a villain. It is our choices that define us, not our abilities. The fundamental truth about humanity is that most people would rather look away.

I want you to know that I would have wished for a different life for you, and for my beloved daughter, who will never know about any of this if I can prevent it. Sometimes I wonder, if I had chosen a different name for myself, might I have grown into a different person? Might I have become someone else.
TW SH: I flirted with suicide more times than I can count. But I know now why I never did it. I was saving that day for you.

I’ve known many people over many lifetimes, and the ignorant ones seem more content.

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challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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