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hailthequeen 's review for:
The Becoming of Noah Shaw
by Michelle Hodkin
I really want to give this book 5 stars, but I can’t. I still love the story, and it remains to be one of my favorites but a few problems for me have arisen that loses a star.
1. The entire book I kept waiting for something to happen. Small things happen here and there, but the majority of the book is bland and monotoned. I love Noah’s point of view, but something is missing from the usual spark that all of the Mara Dyer books have. The usual creepy tone that I love so much was missing from this book.
That being said - the ending was kick ass and I didn’t expect any of what happened. The whole book is worth reading for the last 100 pages alone. I was biting my nails the entire time. It is truly rare that a book promising a dark story telling is actually accurately dark.
And this book is DARK. Mara Dyer is dark. She’s a complex character, that I love. She will always be one of my favorite characters. But she is dark - a scary dark, one that most authors are too afraid to approach in their books, but for Hodkins the risk was worth the reward.
I guess it’s true what they say - if you stick around long enough, you’ll watch the hero become the villain.
I hope the next book has the missing spark I was searching for in the first installment of the Shaw Confessions.
1. The entire book I kept waiting for something to happen. Small things happen here and there, but the majority of the book is bland and monotoned. I love Noah’s point of view, but something is missing from the usual spark that all of the Mara Dyer books have. The usual creepy tone that I love so much was missing from this book.
That being said - the ending was kick ass and I didn’t expect any of what happened. The whole book is worth reading for the last 100 pages alone. I was biting my nails the entire time. It is truly rare that a book promising a dark story telling is actually accurately dark.
And this book is DARK. Mara Dyer is dark. She’s a complex character, that I love. She will always be one of my favorite characters. But she is dark - a scary dark, one that most authors are too afraid to approach in their books, but for Hodkins the risk was worth the reward.
I guess it’s true what they say - if you stick around long enough, you’ll watch the hero become the villain.
I hope the next book has the missing spark I was searching for in the first installment of the Shaw Confessions.