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.
After Mara survives the traumatizing accident at the old asylum, it makes sense that she has issues. She lost her best friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend’s sister, and as if that weren’t enough to cope with, her family moves to a new state in order to give her a fresh start. But that fresh start is quickly filled with hallucinations—or are they premonitions?—and then corpses, and the boundary between reality and nightmare is wavering. At school, there’s Noah, a devastatingly handsome charmer who seems determined to help Mara piece together what’s real, what’s imagined—and what’s very, very dangerous.
My Review
This book was really interesting. It had a great premise but I wasn’t sure what it was. Was it paranormal? Was it mystery? Was it something else? The lack of genre specification bothered me more than I expected.
And while I found Mara’s story intriguing, I found her character really difficult to like. This isn’t necessarily a game breaker for me. I hated Katniss Everdeen but loved The Hunger Games. There were moments where this book really shone. The action and pacing were very good. But I also felt like I was left in the dark too much as to what was going on.
The book ends on a bit of a twist. But again, as a reader I felt like I didn’t know if I could trust Mara and that was not a good thing for me.
I will most likely pick up Book 2 but this wasn’t a book where I’m dying for the sequel. Part of a trilogy, I’m curious whether Book 2 will pique my interest a bit more.
Buylink: https://www.amazon.ca/Unbecoming-Mara-Dyer-Michelle-Hodkin/dp/1442421770/
