daramillz 's review for:

The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

3.0

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Like so many endings to young adult trilogies, this final book was a bit of a disappointment to me. I still enjoyed it, but I don't feel like the plot was adequately wrapped up...some elements were much too neat, and, paradoxically, some much too sloppy. The "genetic memory" storyline was one of the most interesting parts of the book for me, but by the end, it was almost abandoned for the sake of the overly melodramatic teenage romance. Bleh. Out of all that was intriguing and compelling about these books, the culmination is a sex scene? Really? I mean, whatever, let the young lovers have their fun, but don't make that the be all and end all of the series. I'm glad I finished it, but I left it feeling let down.