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A review by eclever
The Mara Dyer Trilogy by Michelle Hodkin
3.0
I am glad to say that my previous notions about this trilogy have been changed. I thought it would be just another young adult series that had the same plotline with the same ending. I was totally wrong. The characters as well as the plot were intriguing and I never wanted to stop reading! I didn’t give it a full 5 stars because although I adore this series, I feel that every book got a little bit weirder and outlandish. Some of the stuff just didn’t really fit in in my opinion. Other than that, I found all three novels to be captivating from start to finish, and it always kept me up late.
Book One
This is where the real magic happens. There is always some mystery shrouding all of the characters and I found it fun to get closer and closer to the truth until I finally figured it out. Well… I never really figured it out until like the last book but you know what I mean. I found all of the characters to be super likeable, especially Noah Shaw. This boy is probably the most perfect human I have ever met( not met exactly, but read about so much I feel like I know him). He is one of the main reasons I kept reading the book. Although Mara was a very interesting character, the combination of Mara and Noah together made the book exciting and fun to read as their relationship progressed throughout the novel. One thing I really liked in the book was the idea of this supernatural power that Mara possesses. It made every chapter interesting to read because of what evidence it might contain.
Book Two
This book kind of really annoyed me. It didn’t annoy me because it was bad writing or a bad plot, but it annoyed me because of the characters. Everyone thinks that Mara is absolutely insane, and they are always putting her into mental hospitals and such, and Mara can’t do anything about it. She can’t tell them what is really going on because then they will think she is even more crazy. It just made me go crazy when her parents made her go away to a place for the mentally ill, because she wasn’t sick at all!!! Also, Mara was kind of getting on my nerves because she kept on pushing Noah away because she was afraid to let him in and let him help her. She just makes everything worse for herself when she does that because then she had no one to talk to that understood.
Book Three
WOW. There were some major plot twists throughout the course of this book. It was pretty scary I’ll have to admit. I liked how in this book, they were in a different setting with different characters with a different mission. The new additions to the series really helped the story overall. What I didn’t like was the fact that we were under the impression that a certain person was dead the whole time, so we never got to really see them in the whole book, except for the end. I didn’t like the ending of the book because I felt that is was too abrupt, and it didn’t fit in with the rest of the story and what the characters would do. It was a happy ending, but I felt that I needed more closure than I got.
Book One
This is where the real magic happens. There is always some mystery shrouding all of the characters and I found it fun to get closer and closer to the truth until I finally figured it out. Well… I never really figured it out until like the last book but you know what I mean. I found all of the characters to be super likeable, especially Noah Shaw. This boy is probably the most perfect human I have ever met( not met exactly, but read about so much I feel like I know him). He is one of the main reasons I kept reading the book. Although Mara was a very interesting character, the combination of Mara and Noah together made the book exciting and fun to read as their relationship progressed throughout the novel. One thing I really liked in the book was the idea of this supernatural power that Mara possesses. It made every chapter interesting to read because of what evidence it might contain.
Book Two
This book kind of really annoyed me. It didn’t annoy me because it was bad writing or a bad plot, but it annoyed me because of the characters. Everyone thinks that Mara is absolutely insane, and they are always putting her into mental hospitals and such, and Mara can’t do anything about it. She can’t tell them what is really going on because then they will think she is even more crazy. It just made me go crazy when her parents made her go away to a place for the mentally ill, because she wasn’t sick at all!!! Also, Mara was kind of getting on my nerves because she kept on pushing Noah away because she was afraid to let him in and let him help her. She just makes everything worse for herself when she does that because then she had no one to talk to that understood.
Book Three
WOW. There were some major plot twists throughout the course of this book. It was pretty scary I’ll have to admit. I liked how in this book, they were in a different setting with different characters with a different mission. The new additions to the series really helped the story overall. What I didn’t like was the fact that we were under the impression that a certain person was dead the whole time, so we never got to really see them in the whole book, except for the end. I didn’t like the ending of the book because I felt that is was too abrupt, and it didn’t fit in with the rest of the story and what the characters would do. It was a happy ending, but I felt that I needed more closure than I got.