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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #1)

Michelle Hodkin

Start date: December 1, 2013

Finish date: December 31, 2013

Discussion: Group Read

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Jan 05, 2014 Prami{reader and dreamer} rated it liked it

Shelves: magic-immortals-hocus-pocus, 2014

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.

Alrighty, so the synopsis gives us a hint to the book and that's what we get throughout the book. Yes, Mara loses the memory of her night and the ac ...more

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Jan 08, 2018 Elicia rated it really liked it

I really don’t know why, but this book gave me serious Raven Cycle vibes (seriously, go read the series already). Private schools and supernatural elements, anyone?

I’ve definitely heard rumours about the love interest, Noah Shaw and I had Expectations. And boy, was I not disappointed. Like, not at all. There’s just so many things hidden underneath that mask all the time. I LOVE IT. CAN WE HAVE CHAPTERS FROM HIS POV IN THE NEXT BOOK PLEASE.

I loved the main character, Mara, from the first page. Sh ...more

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Aug 12, 2014 -RininTa- rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: done-read, favorites, young-adults-books, 5-stars-books, paranormal, romance, fantasy, read-in-2014

Wow! This book is really good. I thought it will become a big disappointment but actually, it's better that I thought.

So for the some first pages, I found myself difficult to understand the language (well, people I don't live in English-is-primary-language country). It's very unusual and I've to read the whole thing again to understand what's it talking about.

For me the story is unique and brave yet of course creepy. The ability that Mara has is unusual and creepy and of course, it makes me sc ...more

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