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amberswitch13 's review for:
The Becoming of Noah Shaw
by Michelle Hodkin
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.
To be specific I'm rating this 4.5 stars.
When I had first heard about this book I would have happily bought it no matter if it was Noah Shaw or something else. The Mara Dyer trilogy was one of my first Young Adults and I absolutely loved it even as a reread... but if you've read the Mara Dyer trilogy you know that even though the first to were fantastic that last one took a flop. I'm not sure what caused that but I know the book felt like the series was taken over by a completely different writer... and thats how The Becoming of Noah Shaw feels.
To be honest that may be the point of The Becoming of Noah Shaw considering it sounds like its written by an English author and the story itself is good... but I can't say Im particularly thrilled its a continuation, I would've much rather Noah's life before Mara or even Noah's mothers and Mara's grandmothers I feel like that would have been more fun an interesting since most loose ends were already tied up in the Mara Dyer trilogy and I really don't like them being reopened.
Another thing is that in the Mara Dyer series Noah was usually cool and collected along with being pompous and a smart ass but through Mara's point of view you would believe he is honest however this entire series he's angry at the world and he's lying to pretty much everyone plus he's letting his composure drop and kind of loosing it at times. Plus through Noah's eyes you really see how people have different perspectives characters like Daniel and Jamie look different through Noah's eyes and it feels as though this book is a continuation of the series with completely different characters that simply have the same names as the originals.
Its the same idea as the Mara Dyer trilogy but at the same time its not.
To be quite honest as a Mara Dyer fan I wasn't that thrilled with the book itself, but separating the book from the original trilogy it is a good book. It simply feels as though the book was not written to target fans of the Mara Dyer trilogy but with the flashbacks thats a problem...
To be specific I'm rating this 4.5 stars.
When I had first heard about this book I would have happily bought it no matter if it was Noah Shaw or something else. The Mara Dyer trilogy was one of my first Young Adults and I absolutely loved it even as a reread... but if you've read the Mara Dyer trilogy you know that even though the first to were fantastic that last one took a flop. I'm not sure what caused that but I know the book felt like the series was taken over by a completely different writer... and thats how The Becoming of Noah Shaw feels.
To be honest that may be the point of The Becoming of Noah Shaw considering it sounds like its written by an English author and the story itself is good... but I can't say Im particularly thrilled its a continuation, I would've much rather Noah's life before Mara or even Noah's mothers and Mara's grandmothers I feel like that would have been more fun an interesting since most loose ends were already tied up in the Mara Dyer trilogy and I really don't like them being reopened.
Another thing is that in the Mara Dyer series Noah was usually cool and collected along with being pompous and a smart ass but through Mara's point of view you would believe he is honest however this entire series he's angry at the world and he's lying to pretty much everyone plus he's letting his composure drop and kind of loosing it at times. Plus through Noah's eyes you really see how people have different perspectives characters like Daniel and Jamie look different through Noah's eyes and it feels as though this book is a continuation of the series with completely different characters that simply have the same names as the originals.
Its the same idea as the Mara Dyer trilogy but at the same time its not.
To be quite honest as a Mara Dyer fan I wasn't that thrilled with the book itself, but separating the book from the original trilogy it is a good book. It simply feels as though the book was not written to target fans of the Mara Dyer trilogy but with the flashbacks thats a problem...