Title: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Author: Michelle Hodkin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Publishing Date: 27 September 2011
Number of Pages: 466
The Synopsis (by Goodreads)
Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can 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 mysteriously unharmed.
There is.
She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love.
She’s wrong.
The Talk
First of all, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer's cover is:
- intriguing
- mysterious
- dark
- eye-catching
Who wouldn't want to read a book with an intriguing, mysterious, dark, and eye-catching cover, right? When I first saw this book being read by my friend, I asked him if it was good. He said that it was okay. After a while, another one of my friends was reading it and he was going nuts about how smexy Noah Shaw was. He was all like "ermagerd The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is so great damn it you should totally read it" and I was like "sure, can I borrow it?" He agreed.
I read this book for about a week, I guess? But anyway, here's my review.
The Rating
 |
| I'm giving this book 3 kawaii Vaporeons! |
Okay, so the summary was totally eerie. The first few chapters were awesome, I mean I'M TELLING YOU THAT SPOILERS ARE INDEED IN THIS REVIEW, SO IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY READING THIS BOOK, I SUGGEST YOU GET THE HELL OUT OF THIS REVIEW, NOT UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE SPOILED dude, come on. This dog owner died because Mara got pissed off at him. And he died exactly the way Mara pictured his death to be. Mara's teacher, Mrs. Morales died because she gave Mara a failing mark, which she didn't deserve. She also died exactly how Mara had imagined it-- through choking.
Why did these happen, you ask? At first, I really thought that Mara was the one killing off these people, you know, with her PTSD and all. I really thought that she was killing them unconsciously, because of her disorder. But later on, it was revealed that she had a power to kill living things. (Um, the insects-in-jars scene?)
Why did I give only 3 Vaporeons? Here are my reasons:
1.) Noah was the mainstream boyfriend. He's drop-dead-gorgeous, hot, he dated almost every girl in the school, he's popular, he is totally rich, he's an asshat, he doesn't really care about others' feelings, etc etc. But, all of these changed (well, almost all) when he met Mara Dyer. Why? Because he stopped dating other girls, he stopped screwing with girls, and he did everything he could to be close to Mara, the new girl.
2.) Jamie. Jamie was Mara's only friend in school. Well, not counting Noah (because he is the boyfriend) and Daniel (because siblings aren't to be counted as friends.) He backs Mara up and everything, but he disappears later on in the story, leaving Mara behind. Isn't this a bit too cliche?
3.) What the hell. I do not understand Mara's powers, let alone Noah's. It would be nicer if Mara didn't have the power to kill people and other things. It would be better if she was a psychopath who kills people without her knowledge, because of her PTSD. And I don't really get where she got that power. Or ability. Whatever. She didn't show any signs of having that ability before they went to the asylum. As to Noah's powers, I don't really get it. He could heal people, cool. But, I don't quite appreciate his powers of healing. Haha.
4.) The story had a good start, no doubt about that. But when Noah and Mara kicks in with their powers and all that whatnot, the tables turned. It would be better, again, if they didn't have any powers.
All in all, I'm neutral. I don't like the book, but I don't dislike it either. I just really love Noah's sexy-ness, even if it's mainstream. I won't judge the whole series right away, because I still haven't read its successor, but I really hope that The Evolution of Mara Dyer would be a tad better than The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer.
Cheers.
-----------------------------------------------
No comments:
Post a Comment