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Mary: An Awakening of Terror by Nat Cassidy
3.5
I'm still not entirely sure how I feel about this book lol. It is definitely very strange, and there were parts I enjoyed and others that I did not.
Mary has spent most her life away from the family and hometown she was raised in. After being fired from her job and suffering from peri-menopause (according to her doctors), her aunt calls her and asks her to move back to her small hometown to essentially provide hospice care to her dying aunt. With nothing tying her to the city, Mary decides it's time for a change. However, more and more weird things are happening to Mary. She finds herself writing in a notebook without knowing, unable to look into the mirror without it distorting her figure, and seeing dead women in her dreams.
From what I've seen, a lot of reviewers liked the beginning of this book, but did not like the ending/latter half to the book. For me it was the opposite, it took me a while to really get interested in the book. I do think it was a lack of connecting with the main character and that might just be the difference in ages but I do think it was more of a personal thing rather than how Mary was written. Honestly I was just waiting for the horror to truly kick off and something meaningful to happen in the plot.
Then the plot definitely picks up and I loved the gruesomeness and haunting that occurred. I loved the development of Mary and how things spiraled towards the end. I will say there is one plot twist regarding one character that I found out of nowhere and there was not a lot of hinting towards that at all. I absolutely loved the ending itself and found it to be satisfying. It's definitely a strange book with things I liked and things I didn't. Overall, it was just so hard to get immersed, but I did like it towards the end when the plot picked up.
Mary has spent most her life away from the family and hometown she was raised in. After being fired from her job and suffering from peri-menopause (according to her doctors), her aunt calls her and asks her to move back to her small hometown to essentially provide hospice care to her dying aunt. With nothing tying her to the city, Mary decides it's time for a change. However, more and more weird things are happening to Mary. She finds herself writing in a notebook without knowing, unable to look into the mirror without it distorting her figure, and seeing dead women in her dreams.
From what I've seen, a lot of reviewers liked the beginning of this book, but did not like the ending/latter half to the book. For me it was the opposite, it took me a while to really get interested in the book. I do think it was a lack of connecting with the main character and that might just be the difference in ages but I do think it was more of a personal thing rather than how Mary was written. Honestly I was just waiting for the horror to truly kick off and something meaningful to happen in the plot.
Then the plot definitely picks up and I loved the gruesomeness and haunting that occurred. I loved the development of Mary and how things spiraled towards the end. I will say there is one plot twist regarding one character that I found out of nowhere and there was not a lot of hinting towards that at all. I absolutely loved the ending itself and found it to be satisfying. It's definitely a strange book with things I liked and things I didn't. Overall, it was just so hard to get immersed, but I did like it towards the end when the plot picked up.