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The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

shes_book_obsessed's review

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5.0

The Retribution of Mara Dyer
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I recommend checking the TWs!

The humor in this book is like no other. It’s morbid but it’s funny, like how she described holding an eyeball and thinking about how it’s squishy and big.

I mostly read this series for the plot (you know what I mean *cough cough* Noah Shaw) so it got kind of boring when he wasn’t involved.

I hated the “before” parts, please just give me more of Noah Shaw.

remmslupin's review

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emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

3.75

redvelvetpenguins's review

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3.0

reading this book was like reading a dream it was all so distant and unreal. and honestly a lot of the book confused me. I much preferred the others and wish she would have gone a different way with the entire book. questions left unanswered and stories wide open.

looking4alexis's review

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1.0

this book ruined the first two, at this rate it could have been a duology bc that???? was a mindfuck and i did not have fun

agnesgailx's review

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2.0

Eh. I really, really struggled with this book. I had to skip entire paragraphs just to get through it. How disappointing.

I did not like who Mara had become.
Spoiler Good on you, Stella, for leaving the group. Who does Mara think she is? Oh I really hate this person, I think I'll kim him.
What she has been through does not justify anything that she did. And how she thought over and over that she would make whoever took Noah from her pay? Wow, talk about desperate. There are other factors in this world, little lovesick girl, get that through your head.

This book, overall, was just ridiculous. I absolutely loved the first book in this series. I think I liked the second book more in my head that I actually did. But this last one just fell waaaay low.

marshaw's review

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4.0

marashaw i love u please don't ever leave me

mhumby123's review

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1.0

Disappointing.

babytaytayx's review

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5.0

Tropes/ TW: young adult, mystery, romance, opposites attract, mentions of suicide, self harm thoughts

Mara is looking for Noah and answers with Jamie. Jamie is hilariously inappropriate.

People put pressures on on this group of kids and treat them like less of a being. The audacity. I really enjoyed the mystery. Loved Mara’s villain arc! I support women’s wrongs a majority of the time

kendalliskiwii's review

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challenging dark mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

abbyl819's review

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4.0

I loved this series so much! I do think that this book is the weakest one in the series though. There were so many of the memories of the past that I thought it interrupted the story more than it added to it. I really didn’t like how frequent they were. This part of the series also got weirder than it has been before, and I’m not sure what I think about that yet. The characters got put in a lot of impossible situations, and I wasn’t even sure most of the time that what I wanted them to do. The first book starts with a sentence that has plagued me since then, but it all comes full circle at the very end of this book and ends with that same sentence and I am shook. I can hardly comprehend it because it is such a good way to end it. It completely blew my mind.