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melissayabookshelf 's review for:
The Becoming of Noah Shaw
by Michelle Hodkin
While I found parts of this book interesting, it was harder for me to get into than the previous books, the books in the Mara Dyer Trilogy. That series closed up the major threads of the initial series, so now having just barely started The Reckoning of Noah Shaw, I can say with absolute certainty that The Becoming of Noah Shaw deserves the criticism that many second books in a series get. That is to say that the entire book is a means to 1) get readers to the point where the Mara Dyer Trilogy ended and to where The Reckoning of Noah Shaw begins and 2) to give us a few more characters and mysteries that will be of great Importance over the course of the new series.
I say this because whereas I was merely trying to get into the different voice and wrap my head around the minor time leap between the last series and this one, to see where the story was leading me. The end of this novel and the beginning of The Reckoning of Noah Shaw immediately hooked me in a way that The Becoming of Noah Shaw.
This was a book that I could put down with not much trouble and which took me longer to read, though it’s considerably shorter than any of the books in the first series, but the Mara Dyer Trilogy was one that I devoured.
If you enjoyed the first series though, don’t let my thoughts on book 1 in Noah’s series put you off. Because if my experience of having read the first 12 pages of The Reckoning of Noah Shaw is any indication, then the surprises it yields and where it’s taking me are going to draw readers in like a moth to a flame. Or like Mara’s mysterious origins drew me in from page one in the first series.
If you haven’t read the Mara Dyer Trilogy before picking up this one, I think you could get by just starting form here...but the Mara Dyer series is so good, would you really want to?
I say this because whereas I was merely trying to get into the different voice and wrap my head around the minor time leap between the last series and this one, to see where the story was leading me. The end of this novel and the beginning of The Reckoning of Noah Shaw immediately hooked me in a way that The Becoming of Noah Shaw.
This was a book that I could put down with not much trouble and which took me longer to read, though it’s considerably shorter than any of the books in the first series, but the Mara Dyer Trilogy was one that I devoured.
If you enjoyed the first series though, don’t let my thoughts on book 1 in Noah’s series put you off. Because if my experience of having read the first 12 pages of The Reckoning of Noah Shaw is any indication, then the surprises it yields and where it’s taking me are going to draw readers in like a moth to a flame. Or like Mara’s mysterious origins drew me in from page one in the first series.
If you haven’t read the Mara Dyer Trilogy before picking up this one, I think you could get by just starting form here...but the Mara Dyer series is so good, would you really want to?