Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Unbeckoming of Mara Dyer Review





Leaning more towards a 2.5 out of 5




 Summary:


"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 checked this out at the library about a year ago, but after reading the summary, I was totally uninterested.  The small blurb of a summery tells you practically nothing about what's going to happen in the book.

Finally, I decided to read it, but I was also disappointed, expecting an amazing book because of the 4.12 stars on goodreads.  It was just another normal YA book that had too much romance and not enough of a plot line.  Should've read the reviews. 

At about the 20 - 70% of this book, it was overflowing with teen fiction cliches that I couldn't deal with.  I mean, the 'new girl' that caught the 'bad boy's' attention, and causes some unintentional tension between the new girl and the guy's ex girlfriend. While the guy starts to 'fall' for the new girl even though he's already, like, slept with the entire female population of their school. Please. Just. Stop.



The Characters

Mara Dyer - I feel like she didn't mourn her friends enough.  I know that  the book skips her mourning period and fasts forward to a few months later, but Mara still should've been sadder about her friends.  Not like "fainting in the hallways and seeing your dead friends everywhere' sad, but more like 'thinking about all those great memories you had together and being deeply sad, but unaffected by it physically and be able to recover from it like a realistic person'. Also, I feel like she developed a crush on Noah way too early in the book.  Like, first meeting, and then she was in love.  I hate when characters just meet and they instantly fall in love, because love at first sight is just impossible.  You just don't know them enough to love them. 


Noah Shaw - Such a typical character.  I mean, rich, hot, and he even has a 'panty-dropping smile'?  You have got to be kidding me. Seriously.  Sure it might've been fun to read the first time, but why do authors keep doing this over and over and over and over and over again?
Whywhywhy???


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Anyways, I still read this book in a day, and it's pretty ordinary.  It started out well, but the actual plot line was abandoned in order to focus on the romance.  Just another one of those YA books to add onto the list.  Although, it is somewhat interesting at various parts, but it's mostly just confusing because you have no idea what the hell is going on at the end.

Buy, borrow, or ban?

For me, it's a ban.  But I suppose if you really have nothing to read . . . borrow. 

Read, reread, repeat?

 Yeah, don't even read this book. Please.  You'll be wasting useful hours.


 

1 comment:

  1. Hi there Eileen Nice Review! I'll listen to your advice and not listen to this book then :D

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