Book Review: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

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.

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Spoilers.

Eh.

This book was...okay, I guess.

I really liked the premise, and the first few chapters were really interesting and I was excited. But then...Noah. Pompous boy who everyone wants, but the MC of course, and he wants her, for some reason. Noah is just so rude and arrogant and I really don't understand the appeal.

Another thing. Why is Anna automatically labelled a slut just because she's someone the MC doesn't like? Just because she may be an antagonist - a heavily cliched one at that - doesn't mean that it's okay to completely bash her. For example,

"The list of what you're missing, Anna, is longer than the South Beach Free Clinic's walk-in list," Jamie said, and I was surprised to hear his voice. "Though I'm sure your hookup resume includes the same names." 

And of course, since Anna was the bitch of the ball and no one liked her, it was automatically hilarious! No, not really.

On to Mara.

Man, what to say. I didn't really understand her character; she was all over the place. Not because of her trauma, I mean because she could never make up her mind. She'd be mad at Noah or  Daniel, but as soon as she went to confront them she'd either seem to forget the reason she came to them, or touch on it briefly and at the most get a bit huffy. Not to mention how she totally lets Noah get away with anything and everything just because he's so beautiful. And she takes the time to remind you how beautiful he is. Often. It just seemed that as long as Noah was with her, she cared about no one else. Like when Jamie got expelled, Mara thought about him maybe once, and that was when she wanted something from him. Then Jamie was never seen or heard from again.

Honestly, this book would've been better if they'd focused more on Mara's unique abilities instead of a cliched trope-sodden romance.

2/5 stars.

-Books and Trust,
Pixie Dust~