the unbecoming of mara dyer

9/27/11
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer | Michelle Hodkin
S&S BFYR
Hardcover/450pp.

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.

I love psychological paranormal thrillers. This book? Is the the epitome of psychological paranormal thriller. Michelle Hodkin brings you into her story with fantastic writing and even more fantastic atmosphere—in those first few pages, you’re creeped, you’re paranoid, you’re scared. You have a lot of questions, and, by the end, most of them get answered. But just enough are left not; just enough to make you yearn and crave for a sequel. (Which, by the way, is definitely happening. I asked the esteemed Ms. Hodkin myself.)

THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER is about a girl whose name may or may not be Mara Dyer. Mara Dyer is a funny girl, a misplaced girl, but most of all just a girl that wants to fit in. But after an accident—an accident involving her group of friends dying—she hasn’t been able to fall back into normalcy. MARA DYER is about what happens when a girl wants to find out the truth, even if it may disprove everything she ever knew about herself.

As I said, Michelle Hodkin’s writing = great. And her romance-writing skill? Is killer. Noah, a most attractive British dude, will drive you bonkers.

Seriously, this book will make you go WTF. But not WTF in a bad way, like, “WTF WAS THE AUTHOR THINKING??!?!?” More like, “WTF JUST HAPPENED OMG THAT DID NOT JUST HAPPEN OMG THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD!”

This book left me speechless, breathless, and absolutely exhilarated. Read it if you fucking DARE.