Review – The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
From Publishers – Simon & Schuster Australia
Release Date – 1st February 2011
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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.
Review by Liz Carson: Mara has survived a horrific accident which left three of her friends dead. But why did she survive? She has no memory of the accident and to get away from the memories of her best friend, her family moves to a new town and Mara starts a new school. At the school is the mysterious Noah Shaw who has a panty-dropping smile and seems to want to get to know the new girl. Mara slowly begins to get snippets of the night of the accident, but is mentally falling apart with the revelations.
As well as coping with her newfound memories, things start happening that she fantasized about moments before. Does she have a strange power that makes things happen? And how dangerous is this power to her family and new friends? The book ends on a cliff hanger and I will be keeping an eye out for The Evolution of Mara Dyer, which is due out in October.
About the Author: At the age of sixteen, Michelle Hodkin lost the rights to her soul in a poker game with pirates just south of Natchez. Shortly thereafter, she joined an acting troupe and traveled the world performing feats of wonder and mischief. She has been seen on stages nationwide and earned rave reviews for her one woman performance of Titus Andronicus before writing THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER, her first novel. Michelle currently lives with her three pets and may or may not be a reliable narrator of her own life :)
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