A review by howifeelaboutbooks
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

1.0

This book sucked me in at the very beginning, and held me until about the halfway point. That’s where it went from being fairly realistic, with elements of a psychological thriller, to being a paranormal romance that was barely hanging together. I haven’t read Twilight or Fifty Shades of Gray, but Noah’s control over Mara made me think that’s what those books were like. It didn’t seem very original, at least, and probably not the best thing for impressionable teenagers to read. I was disappointed at how everything seemed to fall apart at the end, like the author wanted all these various elements in the book, but couldn’t think of how it would work and just threw them all in. The story could have worked as a psychological thriller, and I really wish it had stayed that way; instead it seemed like it became a paranormal romance because that’s what’s popular these days.