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A review by aaronyeslove
The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin
dark
funny
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
seeing the title, i'd think the book would be... more sane than mara dyer trilogy, but nope. of course not. the beginning was kind of boring, i guess, that one moment you have to go through after a happily ever after in the last book of the series you read. it was entertaining, as always, all the exhange between the characters ??? i loved those so much, they were all funny, witty, and a bit dirty. just the way i like it. but then again: it was nothing i couldn't have anticipated. there were new characters introduced and the idea that the enemy might've not stopped after all.
reading this book made me realize that i didn't really love noah as a lover for mara. he was a fucking liar and he normalized that and the way he normalized it said that he did not see lying to your person as something to take seriously—which said, he was fucking childish if it's about love. and the way he kept delaying stuff just because he wanted to piss off his dear dead newly buried father? it was just... so GOOD, you know, reading him from mara's pov. but oh well she deserved better (i volunteer!), like, romantically and literally. people went from "mara you're gonna be okay! there's nothing wrong with you!" when there was something wrong with her, to "mara what the fuck is wrong with you?" when she unleashed her cool evil self. yes, i'm so drawn toward her doing evilish stuff, she fucking slayed doing it, and no, i didn't dislike her being potentially the villain—what i disliked is that at the end everyone suddenly excluded her in their discussion, being all suspicious, when she was the reason they all fucking survived. it was so unfair that she has changed and grown, yet her so-called emotional support people kept treating her as someone who needed to be fixed (or stopped?)
anyway at this point i'll eat this trilogy up for mara my dearest my lovest bc she's the only deserving one out of the series.
reading this book made me realize that i didn't really love noah as a lover for mara. he was a fucking liar and he normalized that and the way he normalized it said that he did not see lying to your person as something to take seriously—which said, he was fucking childish if it's about love. and the way he kept delaying stuff just because he wanted to piss off his dear dead newly buried father? it was just... so GOOD, you know, reading him from mara's pov. but oh well she deserved better (i volunteer!), like, romantically and literally. people went from "mara you're gonna be okay! there's nothing wrong with you!" when there was something wrong with her, to "mara what the fuck is wrong with you?" when she unleashed her cool evil self. yes, i'm so drawn toward her doing evilish stuff, she fucking slayed doing it, and no, i didn't dislike her being potentially the villain—what i disliked is that at the end everyone suddenly excluded her in their discussion, being all suspicious, when she was the reason they all fucking survived. it was so unfair that she has changed and grown, yet her so-called emotional support people kept treating her as someone who needed to be fixed (or stopped?)
anyway at this point i'll eat this trilogy up for mara my dearest my lovest bc she's the only deserving one out of the series.