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A review by georgia_grace
The Becoming of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin
3.0
I wanted to love this so so so much, but it just fell flat.
I’ve just finished it and couldn’t tell you what the main plot points were. Noah hides stuff from Mara, Noah sees a suicide and doesn’t do anything about it, there’s a lot of talking and not much else. Over and over again.
Granted, it’s only the first book in a trilogy, but I feel like there should be at least some answers to some of the questions that arose in the book and not just a load of unanswered questions at the end.
The most annoying thing about the book is how different the characters are to the first trilogy - all of Noah and Mara’s issues could’ve been solved by them talking to each other (which they spend basically three whole books doing) instead of hardly ever engaging in conversation. At the end of the book, it’s clear Noah still loves Mara but there’s no indication throughout the book as to WHY he does anymore. She doesn’t do anything in the book that makes him fall in love with her even more, or anything that would warrant him still having feelings for her which is so frustrating as it’s clear they’re still there.
Noah’s personality also seemed a lot different which I suppose could be put down to the differing POV but honestly just feels out of character - I reread the original trilogy right before this book and it’s even very different from Noah’s POV nearing the end of Retribution.
All this said, I’ll definitely read the next books in this series because I can’t let these characters go and the plot of the Carriers dying was interesting even though it wasn’t explored as well as it could’ve been in this book. I’m also very very intrigued as to how and why Mara’s grandmother is still alive and why the “power has gone out”. But mostly I’ll read the next ones to make sure Mara and Noah are together in the end because she can’t take one of my favourite book couples and break them up forever in a SPIN OFF.
I hope Mara’s family come back into further books as they were such key characters in the first trilogy and it even mentions them being in New York, and I hope Katie makes an appearance or even becomes a major character because I think she could become so well developed.
As a final word, I’d like to assure anyone reading this that English people don’t say the word “mate” or “mates” every other sentence. Maybe once (or twice, or a fair few times) per day, but definitely not as much as poor Goose and Noah are forced to.
I’ve just finished it and couldn’t tell you what the main plot points were. Noah hides stuff from Mara, Noah sees a suicide and doesn’t do anything about it, there’s a lot of talking and not much else. Over and over again.
Granted, it’s only the first book in a trilogy, but I feel like there should be at least some answers to some of the questions that arose in the book and not just a load of unanswered questions at the end.
The most annoying thing about the book is how different the characters are to the first trilogy - all of Noah and Mara’s issues could’ve been solved by them talking to each other (which they spend basically three whole books doing) instead of hardly ever engaging in conversation. At the end of the book, it’s clear Noah still loves Mara but there’s no indication throughout the book as to WHY he does anymore. She doesn’t do anything in the book that makes him fall in love with her even more, or anything that would warrant him still having feelings for her which is so frustrating as it’s clear they’re still there.
Noah’s personality also seemed a lot different which I suppose could be put down to the differing POV but honestly just feels out of character - I reread the original trilogy right before this book and it’s even very different from Noah’s POV nearing the end of Retribution.
All this said, I’ll definitely read the next books in this series because I can’t let these characters go and the plot of the Carriers dying was interesting even though it wasn’t explored as well as it could’ve been in this book. I’m also very very intrigued as to how and why Mara’s grandmother is still alive and why the “power has gone out”. But mostly I’ll read the next ones to make sure Mara and Noah are together in the end because she can’t take one of my favourite book couples and break them up forever in a SPIN OFF.
I hope Mara’s family come back into further books as they were such key characters in the first trilogy and it even mentions them being in New York, and I hope Katie makes an appearance or even becomes a major character because I think she could become so well developed.
As a final word, I’d like to assure anyone reading this that English people don’t say the word “mate” or “mates” every other sentence. Maybe once (or twice, or a fair few times) per day, but definitely not as much as poor Goose and Noah are forced to.