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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
by Michelle Hodkin
I just finished this book and I cannot believe how much I enjoyed reading it.
I found Mara to be a believable and interesting character. Because of her diagnosis of PTSD she initially brushes off the weird feelings and things she is seeing. While some seem to be obvious hallucinations, others seem to be real and give her that dreaded feeling of being watched.
I stand by my original assessment that this is a Stephen King-esque novel. The creepy feeling that you get on the back of your neck when you're reading a really good King novel is present throughout this novel. There is the major overarching mystery, what happened the night that Mara lost her memory and her best friend died, and smaller mysteries strewn throughout the novel. Is what Mara seeing a hallucination or is it real? At what point is Mara sane or crazy? Who seems to be threatening her family? Many of these mysteries do not seemed to be solved at the end of the novel and hopefully will be answered in an upcoming sequel.
While the love story between Mara and Noah seems like the classic, boy is too good for the girl, girl resists but eventually they get together and live happily ever after is not present in this story. Mara never stops thinking that Noah is playing her or has an ulterior motive.
The characters are fully formed and seem to be as real as possible. I was left wanting more background into Mara and her family, especially her Indian relatives.
Though I enjoyed this book, I was disappointed to find out it is the first in a series. While I am excited to read the second novel, I fell that this novel could have stood alone without a sequel and I can only hope that the second novel is as strong as the first.
I found Mara to be a believable and interesting character. Because of her diagnosis of PTSD she initially brushes off the weird feelings and things she is seeing. While some seem to be obvious hallucinations, others seem to be real and give her that dreaded feeling of being watched.
I stand by my original assessment that this is a Stephen King-esque novel. The creepy feeling that you get on the back of your neck when you're reading a really good King novel is present throughout this novel. There is the major overarching mystery, what happened the night that Mara lost her memory and her best friend died, and smaller mysteries strewn throughout the novel. Is what Mara seeing a hallucination or is it real? At what point is Mara sane or crazy? Who seems to be threatening her family? Many of these mysteries do not seemed to be solved at the end of the novel and hopefully will be answered in an upcoming sequel.
While the love story between Mara and Noah seems like the classic, boy is too good for the girl, girl resists but eventually they get together and live happily ever after is not present in this story. Mara never stops thinking that Noah is playing her or has an ulterior motive.
The characters are fully formed and seem to be as real as possible. I was left wanting more background into Mara and her family, especially her Indian relatives.
Though I enjoyed this book, I was disappointed to find out it is the first in a series. While I am excited to read the second novel, I fell that this novel could have stood alone without a sequel and I can only hope that the second novel is as strong as the first.