The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Author: Michelle Hodkin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books
Pages: 456
Rate: 🌟🌟🌟🌟.5
Synopsis;
Mara Dyer believes life can’t get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.
It can.
She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed.
There is.
She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love.
She’s wrong.
Review;
Well hello there! I am here today with one of my favourite young adult series, Mara Dyer. If you remember couple of years back, the hype on this book was crazy. Everyone was reading it, everyone was talking about it; it was favourite of many many bloggers and I, myself, am a huge fan of this series. Well,at least the first two books. From its cover to its plot full of twists and turns, I cannot wait to review this beauty to you!
Before it was even translated in my language, there was a huge explosion of Mara Dyer among foreign book bloggers, for a while I was just following them, every post made me more and more curious and when the publisher announced that they will be publishing the series, I decided to wait the book. When I got it to my hands for the first time, I cannot tell you enough how excited I was. The cover, oh the cover hit me with is beauty so hard that I couldn’t start reading it immediately. The design, the dark feeling, the font… Everything about this cover is phenomenal, especially the color scheme, right up to my taste.
The cover is amazing and magnificent and perfect but what about the plot you may ask? Let me give you a little insight of the plot without going into too many details. The first thing you see in the book is a small paragraph written by our protagonist, Mara Dyer. Now I consider her as protagonist even though some do not, she is our main character adn we know so little about her. She wrote this little paragraph as if it is a clue to let us know that she is not the person who she claims to be and from the begining, this little paragraph hypes you to learn more about her!
We open our eyes to a world and a mind full of questions, darkness and confusion. I say confusion because we open our eyes in an hospital, our body covered with IV drops, pain and heart filled with panic. Why am I saying this to you? Because throughout the first book, you don’t really understand whether the book has some fantasy elements in it, or Mara is just a lost soul wandering on the boundaries of madness. Do not let this uncertainty to scare you, somehow it makes you eager to read more instead. There are things which you cannot understand at all, wonder what is it all about and questions start filling your head from the very first page of the book. The character variety is fairly small but it feels enough since you spend most of the time inside Mara’s head. Very much loved, successful and social brothers, a loving mother (well I ended up hating her at some point) and an ambitious father. All these little details make her sound very normal however do not let these humane details fool you. She is no ordinary girl, trust me. Another thing which I loved about book as the conflict between human mind and heart. IT was very realistic considering the book was nowhere being realistic. The deeper you go in, the more you see the pain and twisted, dark plot. I loved it very much and I highly appreciate the author for this. All that harmony between sentences, making you confused, not being able to differentiate the truth and lie… It still gives me chills. If that is not talent than I don’t really know what is.
The only thing that I was complaining while reading it was the fact that the present scenes were more than the past scenes. I wanted to learn about it more to understand what was really going on but past was as ambiguous as present and it stays the same (well almost the same) until the second book. The ending though, get ready for an ending because I am 100% sure that I’ll make you shocked and you.2ll immediately reach out for the second book.
Overall, it was a great book, deserved good points. I highlt recommend it to everyone! See you in my next post, stay safe!
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