Good start ... weak rest!

Good start ... weak rest!

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (The Mara Dyer Trilogy, Volume 1) (Hardcover)

Customer Review

First thoughts:

No Question. The cover has attracted me from the first moment, but also the blurb sounded pretty interesting. Consequently, I had to read it. Since I could also hold out the nine-month wait.

My Opinion:

It is always difficult to meet the requirements for a book when it is hyped even before the publication. In my experience, I go so often against the wall. In the case of "The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer" I just barely get the curve.

"Who is Mara Dyer?", Presents itself at the outset the question, because in a letter trying Mara, of which the reader knows that it does not really Mara Dyer is to reproduce the fragments of her memory a particular night. Because in this one night something happened that the lives of their friends cost. But only she survived. Plagued by visions of her friends pulling Mara with her family to Florida, but even there they let the ghosts of their past, not in peace. And she begins to gradually recall. On the night when it happened. Support she finds this in Noah, the English boy with the bad reputation.

DC in advance: the first half of the book was really super. The story appeared as a mystery movie; Mara kept seeing their dead friends, but in the next moment they were nothing more than an illusion. In addition, repeatedly passed unexplainable things or there were moments at which Mara could not remember. I often asked myself what is real and what is not. Because the reader is sometimes just as confused as Mara itself. Michelle Hodkin has done a good job here, to make the story creepy and scary. I always thought while these "Mind Fuck Movies" (if you know the term) and have been looking forward to the end.

But then it turned out the way it had come. Mara meets Noah, a (of course!) Incredibly good-looking young man to whom a certain reputation precedes. And everything that had been built Hodgkin flutes goes, completely. Nothing more with frightening scenes or scary moments, Hodgkin focused thenceforth only on Mara and Noah, and it has annoyed me right, that I can tell you. From time to time they threw a few more then a "shocker moments" to bring the boring and chewed love story a little momentum. Nevertheless it has availed nothing.

The figures Mara and Noah, we can be happy, replace with another name of YA-Romance literature, we know. They were average for me, but nice characters who swept me nor cold left. The most interesting thing I found while still Noah, because you gradually realize that something was wrong with him. But I was very afraid that he could end up as a vampire or something similar turn (you never know - they're everywhere!), But then I would have probably fired the book against the wall. But do not worry. I remained peaceful.

After the book was started so promising and with its middle part a little disappointed me, the book ended with a nasty cliffhanger. And what a! Even if the book had me now not really torn from the stool, I need to know how it weitergeht.Und especially if you followed again by the letter read at the beginning but. How is it that your lawyer (and Why a lawyer?) Advises her to use a pseudonym and why it is again landed in New York.

My verdict:

Very good start, the declines clearly at the center. Hodgkin focuses too much on the love story, and thus joins the league of the average youth novels one. Too Bad. Really a wasted potential. In my opinion, you can read the book, but you do not.

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