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aghostintheroom 's review for:
The Becoming of Noah Shaw
by Michelle Hodkin
I'm not sure if this is a solid 4 stars or a 3.75ish because the beginning was way too slow for me, and we already had the whole world/problems/characters already set up to make it a little bit faster.
However, the ending was incredible. As dark as it was I think it captured really well the problems the characters were facing through the whole book and left a great opening for the next one.
There are a few things that bothered me while I read the book:
1) A character that appeared only to make the plot move forward. While this is what characters do, the character didn't have a great set up or a real connection that explained why they were there. Yeah, there was some sort of explanation but for me, it felt like it was "ah, this is good enough, here now you got a new character" (I did like the character btw, but it felt a little forced to me)
2) There were a few out-of-character actions from certain characters that didn't make any sense to me, but I guess they help the plot move and they weren't that awful so I decided to ignore them.
I would have like to see more of Mara and Noah, I feel like they didn't have the connection they had before even before the break between happened I felt like there was something missing about them. The way things ended in the 3rd book of TUOMD didn't set up their relationship in the way that it was portrayed here
Overall it is a good book, it is dark and it's dense but it makes sense because of what the plot of the whole series is about, and I'm really excited about what's to come from the story.
However, the ending was incredible. As dark as it was I think it captured really well the problems the characters were facing through the whole book and left a great opening for the next one.
There are a few things that bothered me while I read the book:
1) A character that appeared only to make the plot move forward. While this is what characters do, the character didn't have a great set up or a real connection that explained why they were there. Yeah, there was some sort of explanation but for me, it felt like it was "ah, this is good enough, here now you got a new character" (I did like the character btw, but it felt a little forced to me)
2) There were a few out-of-character actions from certain characters that didn't make any sense to me, but I guess they help the plot move and they weren't that awful so I decided to ignore them.
I would have like to see more of Mara and Noah, I feel like they didn't have the connection they had before
Overall it is a good book, it is dark and it's dense but it makes sense because of what the plot of the whole series is about, and I'm really excited about what's to come from the story.