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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
YOU DON'T LIKE THE MURDER? GROW UP! the atrocities are part of her and i've decided they're funny ;)
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS.
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD.
I'M SO EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOT I NEED SOME TIME TO PROCESS THIS.
I'M SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR THIS.
FROM NOAH'S POV OH MY GOD.
I THOUGHT SHE WAS WRITING A NEW SERIES NOT A SPIN OFF THIS IS AMAZING.
I'M REALLY EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW WORDS CAN NOT EXPLAIN.
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOD.
I'M SO EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOT I NEED SOME TIME TO PROCESS THIS.
I'M SO FUCKING EXCITED FOR THIS.
FROM NOAH'S POV OH MY GOD.
I THOUGHT SHE WAS WRITING A NEW SERIES NOT A SPIN OFF THIS IS AMAZING.
I'M REALLY EMOTIONAL RIGHT NOW WORDS CAN NOT EXPLAIN.
I had such high hopes for this book, but sadly, was disappointed. After falling in love with the Mara Dyer books and Noah Shaw, I thought I was going to love this. I feel bad for giving it 3 stars, as I've followed the author for a while, and I know she's put her heart and soul into writing this book. But the plot fell short for me, and the characters... they didn't feel like the old ones I'd come love. Nevertheless, I will continue with this series because I did find the ending amazing! I can't wait to see what Michelle Hodkin has in store for us in the next novel, and hopefully I'll enjoy it more.
I deserve the marashaw spring wedding and marashaw babies mentioned in this book.
i love the mara dyer trilogy, as well as michelle, but this was just tragic. i was really stoked to read this book, however, i couldn’t get into it. i tried, but the concept was terrible. i hated the way things ended, and have decided not to read the next book.
i am throughly disappointed. i am just going to pretend everything ended with the retribution of mara dyer.
i am throughly disappointed. i am just going to pretend everything ended with the retribution of mara dyer.
*I read this in Novemeber 2017 and reviewed it then. I read it as an arc and decided to DNF at 51%. An earc was provided by the publisher and as always, this is my honest opinion. All my reviews are at www.terriblebookblogger.wordpress.com
This was one of my most anticipated books of 2017 and…yeah.
Maybe I should have reread the Mara Dyer trilogy before because I had zero idea what was going on when I started reading and it slowly started coming back to me, but even then.
My main issue with this book is the plot, or the lack of one. The pacing is so slow as Noah and the gang wander around trying to figure out why this super weird scary thing is happening. But there’s no tension. People are dying, but it’s so far removed, I didn’t really care.
You’d think at 51% there would be a little more story involved, but it was all just kind of slow and distant.
To be 100% fair, I found out as I was reading this that the earc is missing words, pages, and even whole chapters, so maybe I missed something that changed everything. I considered buying a copy or trying to get it from the library and rereading all I had read, but it seemed like too much effort for a book I wasn’t enjoying at its core.
Maybe if I reread The Mara Dyer trilogy, I’ll find that I no longer enjoy it as I once did and that carried over to The Becoming of Noah Shaw, but I found this one too strange, too slow, and too superficial to really connect with the story.
When I tried to pick this up about a week and a half since I last read it, I looked at it briefly, and closed the book. Even if I were to finish this earc and know there are chapters missing, I know I won’t enjoy it, because Noah and Mara’s relationship exhausts me.
I’ve had an exceptionally bad reading month in November, so maybe later I’ll pick this one back up and give it another try. I keep hearing about the ending being shocking, but I have a feeling that this series will end with The Mara Dyer trilogy for me.
This was one of my most anticipated books of 2017 and…yeah.
Maybe I should have reread the Mara Dyer trilogy before because I had zero idea what was going on when I started reading and it slowly started coming back to me, but even then.
My main issue with this book is the plot, or the lack of one. The pacing is so slow as Noah and the gang wander around trying to figure out why this super weird scary thing is happening. But there’s no tension. People are dying, but it’s so far removed, I didn’t really care.
You’d think at 51% there would be a little more story involved, but it was all just kind of slow and distant.
To be 100% fair, I found out as I was reading this that the earc is missing words, pages, and even whole chapters, so maybe I missed something that changed everything. I considered buying a copy or trying to get it from the library and rereading all I had read, but it seemed like too much effort for a book I wasn’t enjoying at its core.
Maybe if I reread The Mara Dyer trilogy, I’ll find that I no longer enjoy it as I once did and that carried over to The Becoming of Noah Shaw, but I found this one too strange, too slow, and too superficial to really connect with the story.
When I tried to pick this up about a week and a half since I last read it, I looked at it briefly, and closed the book. Even if I were to finish this earc and know there are chapters missing, I know I won’t enjoy it, because Noah and Mara’s relationship exhausts me.
I’ve had an exceptionally bad reading month in November, so maybe later I’ll pick this one back up and give it another try. I keep hearing about the ending being shocking, but I have a feeling that this series will end with The Mara Dyer trilogy for me.
Ese final por dios !
Arranqué sin ningún tipo de expectativas, porque había leído reseñas no muy buenas, pero la verdad que lo disfrute un montón y lo devore en dos días.
Siento que fue más que nada introductorio a todo lo que va a pasar en la continuación. Tengo muchas ganas de leer la continuación
Arranqué sin ningún tipo de expectativas, porque había leído reseñas no muy buenas, pero la verdad que lo disfrute un montón y lo devore en dos días.
Spoiler
La confesión de Mara al final del libro me dejo sin creer todavía las capacidades de sus poderes, y el dolor de Noah por la revelación fue terribleSiento que fue más que nada introductorio a todo lo que va a pasar en la continuación. Tengo muchas ganas de leer la continuación
Spoiler
para saber finalmente que pasa con Noah, Mara y la abuela de Mara.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Self harm, Suicide
Although I do like Mara’s series more, this one was good enough for me!! I wanted to be able to continue on with the story bc I slowly became obsessed while reading the first trilogy (lol). I read this one on audible which I highly recommend bc the English narrator portrayed Noah sooooo well
What did I think of this book? Ohhhhh boy
So this completely ruined the series. The series should've stopped when the Mara trilogy stopped. The Mara trilogy was well written, coherent, and it was wrapped up and ended nicely. This book completely undoes allllllll of that. This series, I had to reread multiple chunks because it was all over the place and didn’t make sense/totally incoherent.
Mara was written completely different than she was in the original trilogy. On some level that's to be expected from the fact that the character went through traumas, but also because this book is from another person's POV. However, this is ridiculous. It's not like subtle changes, it's like she's a completely different person. Noah is also completely different. It's like this book was trying to hard to make Noah keep up his "I don't care about anything" personality, even though you know from the first series that he does care about some things.
To me this book absolutely dragged on. It took forever in between reading sessions to even want to pick the book back up. Towards the end I was just reading it to get it the f*ck finished so I didn't leave it partially read. This book felt rushed and totally out of place compared to the first series. The last handful of chapters were totally incoherent and I had to reread a couple of them a few times before I gave up trying to figure out what was supposed to be happening. The ending was dumb in my opinion. I don't want to spoil anything, but it was something that was so out of left field that it made absolutely Z E R O sense. Most books will throw something wild at you at the end of a book, but normally that things at least makes sense and sometimes was often hinted at through out the book. Or, upon rereading you can see where that would come into play and it fits. This ending is none of those things.
TDLR;
This ruined the overall series and I will not be continuing this trilogy
So this completely ruined the series. The series should've stopped when the Mara trilogy stopped. The Mara trilogy was well written, coherent, and it was wrapped up and ended nicely. This book completely undoes allllllll of that. This series, I had to reread multiple chunks because it was all over the place and didn’t make sense/totally incoherent.
Mara was written completely different than she was in the original trilogy. On some level that's to be expected from the fact that the character went through traumas, but also because this book is from another person's POV. However, this is ridiculous. It's not like subtle changes, it's like she's a completely different person. Noah is also completely different. It's like this book was trying to hard to make Noah keep up his "I don't care about anything" personality, even though you know from the first series that he does care about some things.
To me this book absolutely dragged on. It took forever in between reading sessions to even want to pick the book back up. Towards the end I was just reading it to get it the f*ck finished so I didn't leave it partially read. This book felt rushed and totally out of place compared to the first series. The last handful of chapters were totally incoherent and I had to reread a couple of them a few times before I gave up trying to figure out what was supposed to be happening. The ending was dumb in my opinion. I don't want to spoil anything, but it was something that was so out of left field that it made absolutely Z E R O sense. Most books will throw something wild at you at the end of a book, but normally that things at least makes sense and sometimes was often hinted at through out the book. Or, upon rereading you can see where that would come into play and it fits. This ending is none of those things.
TDLR;
This ruined the overall series and I will not be continuing this trilogy