I twisted my arm to curl him behind me and he unfolded there, the two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.

In the Becoming of Noah Shaw, Noah starts to distrust Mara, after Stella told him about her killing people in the Retribution of Mara Dyer. Mara confesses to Noah that she is responsible for his father's death and Noah breaks up with her.

Noah Shaw has a bad reputation around school, though Mara sees a different side to him. Why do you think Noah cultivates this reputation? Do you think he is right not to correct other people's assumptions? anyway, if you'd all get your mind out of the gutter for a moment to listen to me bitch some more, the point is that Noah isn't any of the things the book, or more to say Mara, tries to make him out to be. After burying her friends and her former life, Mara’s family moves her away, thinking that all she needs is to start over. And what is it with the British accent fetish? I hate to say it, but British accents aren't very sexy. (Don't kill me for this, I'm just sayin'.) Seriously, they aren't. Nor are Irish accent. NOR IS ANY ACCENT. No accent is automatically going to boost your character's smexeh factor. /end accent rant

This book does have romance but it is on the slower side which I adore and the twist in the end, I love it. The chemistry was there and the way they talked to each other ugh I need it. Often we’re faced with discrepancies between reality and illusion in The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. It isn’t always easy for us, as readers, to determine what was real or not. What clues did you look for—or observe, in retrospect—that helped you determine what was really happening in Mara’s life? Do you think the author deliberately intended for there to be a discrepancy? Is this why Mara is an unreliable narrator? What does this accomplish? I already spoke about it in my ”New Library Book Haul” and I’m going for it now: “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”! In short: Mara is annoying, selfish, self-centered, and insane. I'm not one of those kind of people that tends to enjoy that kind of writing, characterization, and repetitiveness. If you truly do and are the .0000000000000000000001 percent that enjoy that then, by all means, go for it. In the Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Mara gets committed to a mental institution and Noah joins her. When Jude appears at the mental institution, Mara makes the building collapse.

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Young adult fantasy isn’t exactly a utopia in 2018, but man, reading this book really made me wonder how we survived for so many years! This was like a grocery list of lightly offensive tropes. YA typically has at least one of them, but to have so many! It’s almost impressive. i loved that it had me pretty much guessing the whole way through, and that there were some creepy dark themes. honestly just what i needed rn. i almost wish it was a bit darker tho. mara is the epitome of “ not like other girls”— noah literally says that to her and i wanted to gag. honestly what was the reason 😭 What could I say? Noah, despite you being an asshole, or maybe because of it, I'd like to rip off your clothes and have your babies.”

Michelle Hodkin is an American New York Times bestselling author, [1] and the creator of the Mara Dyer Trilogy, consisting of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, The Evolution of Mara Dyer, and The Retribution of Mara Dyer. [2] Early life and education [ edit ] also that ending was INSANE, IM GAGGED talk abt a cliffhanger i was not expecting that at all!! now i can’t wait to continue on with this trilogy. I loved his scenes with Mara, the way he refused to give up on her and supported her. He can be the one to save her from the darkness or doom her to a life deprived of light. Obviously I can’t add anything new to the review narrative that’s been circulating since these books were written, but I will say that Hodkin has that special touch, the one that people are embarrassed to admit to adoring because it’s not “cool” to like books like these anymore, but secretly they fangirl over it because *swoon*. These are saccharine sweet with cheesy romance and cliche plot twists, but I can’t help it. I DRANK THE KOOLAID AND WANT MORE. Sorry if that makes me shallow, but I’m just here for the trashy reads right now. If you need me I’ll be curled up in my pjs binging the rest of the trilogy bc I’m old and don’t care what people think of me. #JustKiddingPleaseLoveMeThe premise of the series is interesting. The main character was in a mysterious accident where her best friend and boyfriend died, and she’s dealing with the trauma and memory loss from that night. When her family moves to try to help her cope. But some of the nightmares feel more like memories and as her enemies starting dropping like flies she has to figure out if she’s crazy before she goes crazy. It promises all the comfortingly predictable catharsis of a YA novel with a darker twist than usual, and with a humanizing insight into PTSD. And for the most part, it was pretty good. I don’t rate my books one star to five stars. I rate my books one-star to “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer.” What happened at the conclusion of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer? Explain. Use evidence from the text to support your theories. Mara was more than a decent heroine which, I didn't know why, just came as such a pleasant surprise to me. She had PTSD from the accident she and her friends were in when the book opened. I need to give the author credit for not creating yet another YA heroine who solely obsessed about her love life and magically forget about everything else. Mara was not like that at all: she didn't suddenly tossed aside her messed up life and she actually had the presence of mind to want to put her shit together before thinking of having a boyfriend. That was refreshing I tell you. Woohoo!