Review: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

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I finally finished The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin (★★★★☆) This was a reread for me. When I read it before, in October of 2016 (Wow, I didn't realize it was almost exactly a year since I read this!), I read the first book and stopped. I don't remember why I didn't pick up the rest of the series, but I never even started the second book. Reading my review, I know I was excited to read it, and now that I've read it again, I can't imagine not going into the second book immediately!

My thoughts: I loved this book. I am a huge fan of an unreliable narrator, and we definitely get that in this book. You never know whether things are real to Mara, and you never know whether they are real to other people. There were definitely some moments in this story that I had to reread, because I had to try to figure out what was really happening. This book uses a lot of brain power to figure out, but doesn't feel like it. The characters are described very well. Obviously the main characters (Mara, Noah, Daniel), but also the other characters at school and such. I could totally picture everybody that was mentioned even in passing. The plot definitely moved very fast in some parts, and got confusing, but I think that's the idea. Mara definitely would have been feeling that things were moving fast also, and would have been very confused sometimes. And... Noah Shaw. Enough said. Even though I already read this book, I forgot all about the major plot twist at the end, and I got to be surprised all over again, which was cool. I definitely want to see where that whole situation goes, because it has the potential to be really lame.

All in all, I loved this book. It wasn't perfect by any means, but it was amazing. I can't wait to see some resolutions to some story arcs in the second third books. Then I can move on to The Becoming of Noah Shaw, which I got as an ARC on NetGalley. I'm excited to see how Michelle Hodkin was able to write another book in the series, but keep it individual as well.

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