The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (The Mara Dyer Trilogy Book 1)
Mara Dyer doesn’t know if she is crazy or haunted—all she knows is that everyone around her is dying in this suspenseful and “strong, inventive tale” (Kirkus Reviews).
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.
This fast-paced psychological—or is it paranormal?—thriller will leave you breathless for its sequel, The Evolution of Mara Dyer.
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.
This fast-paced psychological—or is it paranormal?—thriller will leave you breathless for its sequel, The Evolution of Mara Dyer.
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I have no idea how I managed to finish this book... It was like reading a really really bad fanfic. I have to admit that at first I picked this up by the cover, ended up reading the short summary and some reviews and decided to read it. Big big mistake.
So the book tells us the story of Mara Dyer, who ends up in the hospital after a spooky accident that she doesn't remember and where her friends and boyfriend died. Let me tell you something about Mara Dyer, she's so boring I wanted to reach into the book and slap her. That was my first warning sign, normally if the main character doesn't work out for me I stop reading but I really really wanted to know what was going on with the plot.
After the whole spooky thing Mara ends up a little bit insane and that actually made the book better. Not knowing if what was going on was real or not made it more dynamic. Even with that the poor poor plot couldn't be saved. It was extremely slow and made no sense. So Mara kills people with her brain and everything is her faultoh noes angst angst teenage angst. And then there was the whole thing with her father's trial. We never really know what's going on or what they guy did, we just have to know that he's very evil
The plot was lacking and the "love story" ended up being the main focus of the book. I don't have anything against that but I feel sort of cheated. I was expecting the whole love story but it just felt so disconnected from the plot. Also, Noah.
I hated Noah. The first time he opens his mouth in the book all I could think was: Oh please no, don't make him the love interest no please. He was arrogant, selfish and controlling. Also he was super rich, charming (with a british accent!), a playboy who could have anyone but wanted the weird, shy, dark and mysterious new girlyeah right.
Mara hates him so much and suddenly she is super in love with him. He seemed to be everywhere and was always following her around and meeting her family. It was just too much too soon.
In the characters we can also mention her only friend who was so underdeveloped that I can't even remember his name, her mother who worried about her all the time, her father the lawyer (and that's it), her little brother who got kidnapped and that was pretty much his only job, her older brother who was probably the best character and her dead mysterious friends.
Now, back to the plot, near the end of the book after a very slow book we finally get the big reveal that Mara kills people with her brain and that Noah can heal peopleit must be tru wuv!. We never get an explanation to Mara's visions/hallucinations so I'm just going to assume that she is crazy. Then there's the whole thing with her dad's case. He was representing a guy who killed some girl in a gruesome way and it turns out that one point he also kidnapped Mara's little brother but she thought it was just a hallucination.
So Mara and Noah run off to the court house to make sure the guy ends up in prison but they get there to late. So Mara decides to kill the guy with her brainduh. It backfires and her dad also gets hurt and she ends up feeling so guilty she goes to the police. When suddenly she sees her "dead boyfriend". They never talk and he goes somewhere else aaaaand the book is over.
What.
So yeah, that was it. And it has a sequel that I am so not reading.
Merged review:
I have no idea how I managed to finish this book... It was like reading a really really bad fanfic. I have to admit that at first I picked this up by the cover, ended up reading the short summary and some reviews and decided to read it. Big big mistake.
So the book tells us the story of Mara Dyer, who ends up in the hospital after a spooky accident that she doesn't remember and where her friends and boyfriend died. Let me tell you something about Mara Dyer, she's so boring I wanted to reach into the book and slap her. That was my first warning sign, normally if the main character doesn't work out for me I stop reading but I really really wanted to know what was going on with the plot.
After the whole spooky thing Mara ends up a little bit insane and that actually made the book better. Not knowing if what was going on was real or not made it more dynamic. Even with that the poor poor plot couldn't be saved. It was extremely slow and made no sense. So Mara kills people with her brain and everything is her faultoh noes angst angst teenage angst. And then there was the whole thing with her father's trial. We never really know what's going on or what they guy did, we just have to know that he's very evil
The plot was lacking and the "love story" ended up being the main focus of the book. I don't have anything against that but I feel sort of cheated. I was expecting the whole love story but it just felt so disconnected from the plot. Also, Noah.
I hated Noah. The first time he opens his mouth in the book all I could think was: Oh please no, don't make him the love interest no please. He was arrogant, selfish and controlling. Also he was super rich, charming (with a british accent!), a playboy who could have anyone but wanted the weird, shy, dark and mysterious new girlyeah right.
Mara hates him so much and suddenly she is super in love with him. He seemed to be everywhere and was always following her around and meeting her family. It was just too much too soon.
In the characters we can also mention her only friend who was so underdeveloped that I can't even remember his name, her mother who worried about her all the time, her father the lawyer (and that's it), her little brother who got kidnapped and that was pretty much his only job, her older brother who was probably the best character and her dead mysterious friends.
Now, back to the plot, near the end of the book after a very slow book we finally get the big reveal that Mara kills people with her brain and that Noah can heal peopleit must be tru wuv!. We never get an explanation to Mara's visions/hallucinations so I'm just going to assume that she is crazy. Then there's the whole thing with her dad's case. He was representing a guy who killed some girl in a gruesome way and it turns out that one point he also kidnapped Mara's little brother but she thought it was just a hallucination.
So Mara and Noah run off to the court house to make sure the guy ends up in prison but they get there to late. So Mara decides to kill the guy with her brainduh. It backfires and her dad also gets hurt and she ends up feeling so guilty she goes to the police. When suddenly she sees her "dead boyfriend". They never talk and he goes somewhere else aaaaand the book is over.
What.
So yeah, that was it. And it has a sequel that I am so not reading.
So the book tells us the story of Mara Dyer, who ends up in the hospital after a spooky accident that she doesn't remember and where her friends and boyfriend died. Let me tell you something about Mara Dyer, she's so boring I wanted to reach into the book and slap her. That was my first warning sign, normally if the main character doesn't work out for me I stop reading but I really really wanted to know what was going on with the plot.
After the whole spooky thing Mara ends up a little bit insane and that actually made the book better. Not knowing if what was going on was real or not made it more dynamic. Even with that the poor poor plot couldn't be saved. It was extremely slow and made no sense. So Mara kills people with her brain and everything is her fault
The plot was lacking and the "love story" ended up being the main focus of the book. I don't have anything against that but I feel sort of cheated. I was expecting the whole love story but it just felt so disconnected from the plot. Also, Noah.
I hated Noah. The first time he opens his mouth in the book all I could think was: Oh please no, don't make him the love interest no please. He was arrogant, selfish and controlling. Also he was super rich, charming (with a british accent!), a playboy who could have anyone but wanted the weird, shy, dark and mysterious new girl
Mara hates him so much and suddenly she is super in love with him. He seemed to be everywhere and was always following her around and meeting her family. It was just too much too soon.
In the characters we can also mention her only friend who was so underdeveloped that I can't even remember his name, her mother who worried about her all the time, her father the lawyer (and that's it), her little brother who got kidnapped and that was pretty much his only job, her older brother who was probably the best character and her dead mysterious friends.
Now, back to the plot, near the end of the book after a very slow book we finally get the big reveal that Mara kills people with her brain and that Noah can heal people
So Mara and Noah run off to the court house to make sure the guy ends up in prison but they get there to late. So Mara decides to kill the guy with her brain
What.
So yeah, that was it. And it has a sequel that I am so not reading.
Merged review:
I have no idea how I managed to finish this book... It was like reading a really really bad fanfic. I have to admit that at first I picked this up by the cover, ended up reading the short summary and some reviews and decided to read it. Big big mistake.
So the book tells us the story of Mara Dyer, who ends up in the hospital after a spooky accident that she doesn't remember and where her friends and boyfriend died. Let me tell you something about Mara Dyer, she's so boring I wanted to reach into the book and slap her. That was my first warning sign, normally if the main character doesn't work out for me I stop reading but I really really wanted to know what was going on with the plot.
After the whole spooky thing Mara ends up a little bit insane and that actually made the book better. Not knowing if what was going on was real or not made it more dynamic. Even with that the poor poor plot couldn't be saved. It was extremely slow and made no sense. So Mara kills people with her brain and everything is her fault
The plot was lacking and the "love story" ended up being the main focus of the book. I don't have anything against that but I feel sort of cheated. I was expecting the whole love story but it just felt so disconnected from the plot. Also, Noah.
I hated Noah. The first time he opens his mouth in the book all I could think was: Oh please no, don't make him the love interest no please. He was arrogant, selfish and controlling. Also he was super rich, charming (with a british accent!), a playboy who could have anyone but wanted the weird, shy, dark and mysterious new girl
Mara hates him so much and suddenly she is super in love with him. He seemed to be everywhere and was always following her around and meeting her family. It was just too much too soon.
In the characters we can also mention her only friend who was so underdeveloped that I can't even remember his name, her mother who worried about her all the time, her father the lawyer (and that's it), her little brother who got kidnapped and that was pretty much his only job, her older brother who was probably the best character and her dead mysterious friends.
Now, back to the plot, near the end of the book after a very slow book we finally get the big reveal that Mara kills people with her brain and that Noah can heal people
So Mara and Noah run off to the court house to make sure the guy ends up in prison but they get there to late. So Mara decides to kill the guy with her brain
What.
So yeah, that was it. And it has a sequel that I am so not reading.
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