Review of "The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer" by Michelle Hodkin

Page Count: 456 Pages

Publish Date: Sepetember 27, 2011

Genre: YA/Paranormal/Mystery

Synopsis: 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.

Review: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is a fantastic mystery and the desperation to find the answers kept me hooked. It took me only a couple of days to finish and I loved the majority of it. However, there was one thing that I didn't love and his name is Noah Shaw. Maybe it's just because the romance feels so unnecessary and it puts this book as just another teen romance dressed up to look like a paranormal novel.

For once, I would love a book that isn't ruined by the romance (or, god forbid, a love triangle), but this book has another romance that is as cliched and overdramatic as every other romance in a YA novel.

However, the cover is beautiful and if you can ignore how annoying Noah Shaw is then The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is a good book and definitely worth the read.

Rating: 3.5 STARS