The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (The Unbecoming #1) by
Michelle Hodkin
Publication Date: September 27, 2011
Publisher:
Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing
Source: Book Purchased by Reviewer
Buy it at:
Amazon,
Barnes and Noble,
IndieBound
My rating:
5 out of 5 stars
Summary (from 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.
This book was INTENSE!!! And I mean that in the best way
possible. From the moment I started reading, it sucked me in and didn't spit me
out until the very end. Leaving me breathless and yearning for more!!!
Without giving too much away, I’ll say that the main
character, Mara Dyer, has A LOT of issues she needs to work through. In the
beginning of the book Mara and her friends have a huge accident that leaves her
suffering from PTSD with memory loss of the event. As the chapters roll by, Mara
has “episodes” that give her a little bit more information about what happened
that night. Along the way she makes friends with a two guys in her new school. One
of them being a super steamy, extra yummy SWOONY
boy!!! (read: I'm in LOVE)
Noah, the bad boy with a good heart,
is all the things that encompass a “swoony boy” (and the perfect male specimen)
and of course he falls madly in love with Mara, not to say that she doesn't feel
the same towards him. They definitely have a deep connection, deeper than
either of them realize until the “almost” end of the book. That kid of
connection is rare and the author portrays it in such a way that the reader can
feel EVERY SINGLE EMOTION that Mara feels toward Noah, including the love/lust
effect…BIG TIME!!!
Throughout it all though, I kind of feel bad for Mara. Before
we find out what happened during that accident, she seems to carry such a sadness
with her and it makes you really wonder what went down before, during, and
after. The author portrays her sorrow and curiosity as well as her fear of what
is happening to her.
This awesome turnout definitely makes me wish I HADN'T left
it sitting on my TBR shelf for so long (read: about a year). Lighters in the air for to
Michelle Hodkin…Keep ‘em coming!
