[BOOK REVIEW] The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #1) by Michelle Hodkin

Synopsis from Goodreads:





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.





Genre : Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal Romance

Publication Date : October 23rd 2012

Date Read : April 29th 2015

Publisher : Simon & Schuster 

Format : Paperback

Pages : 456

My Review:

Fast - Paced. A real page - turner. Creepy

The first thing I noticed is the paced of this book. It was fast and refreshing because Michelle's writing style was great! 

This book is a perfect blend of Paranormal and Romance. The love/romance going on with Mara and Noah was incredibly fantastic while the creepiness are still present while Mara Dyer is hallucinating and stuff. When I was in the middle of the book, I thought the paranormal aspect was left out but when I reached the second half, I was wrong. The last half of this book is the most creepiest which I liked.

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.” 

I don't have much to say about the characters but I think they are actually good especially Mara Dyer and Noah Shaw.

The plot itself is very intriguing and mysterious that's why i can't put down this book because I want to know more! Even though The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is dark and paranormal, Michelle Hodkin did not forget to put a smile on my face or laugh because of some funny things.

This is my first time reading a Paranormal Romance book, I believe, and I enjoyed it and I want to read more from this genre. Thanks to this book for not disappointing me to introduce to Paranormal with romance world!

The ending was a cliffhanger. Too bad I still don't have the book 2 because I really need to read more from Mara Dyer!

As I said, Michelle Hodkin's writing style was fantastic it made me not want to put the book down. It was fast - paced and I finished this book for only 2 days which is not fast enough compared to the other readers but for me it's good because I usually read a book for 3 days - 1 week if I'm not that busy. For those who haven't read it yet, please read it now! You don't want to miss the world of Mara Dyer ;)

Ratings: 5/5 stars

My Top 5 TBR Books

Hey everyone! On this post I will be showing you my top 5 tbr books!!!

This picture is from my Instagram account which is @bookishfanboy

1. Every Day by David Levithan

SYNOPSIS:

I wake up.

Immediately, I have to figure out who I am. It's not just the body - opening my eyes and discovering whether the skin on my arm is light or dark, whether my hair is long or short, whether I'm fat or thin, boy or girl, scarred or smooth. The body is the easiest thing to adjust to, if you're used to waking up in a new one each morning. It's the life, the context of the body, that can be hard to grasp.

Every day I am someone else. I am myself - I know I am myself - but I am also someone else.

It has always been like this.

2. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

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.

3. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

SYNOPSIS:

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know...

Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end. 

4. Cinder by Marissa Meyer

SYNOPSIS:

Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future. 



5. Looking For Alaska by John Green

SYNOPSIS:


Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. He heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same.




I am so excited to read all of my tbr books especially these five!


- All synopsis that are included are from goodreads.com -

[BOOK REVIEW] The Calling (Endgame #1) by James Frey

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20510241-the-calling

SYNOPSIS:

Twelve thousand years ago, they came. They descended from the sky amid smoke and fire, and created humanity and gave us rules to live by. They needed gold and they built our earliest civilizations to mine it for them. When they had what they needed, they left. But before they left, they told us someday they would come back, and when they did, a game would be played. A game that would determine our future.

This is Endgame.

For ten thousand years the lines have existed in secret. The 12 original lines of humanity. Each had to have a Player prepared at all times. They have trained generation after generation after generation. In weapons, languages, history, tactics, disguise assassination. Together the players are everything: strong, kind, ruthless, loyal, smart, stupid, ugly, lustful, mean, fickle, beautiful, calculating, lazy, exuberant, weak. They are good and evil. Like you. Like all.

This is Endgame.

When the game starts, the players will have to find three keys. The keys are somewhere on earth. The only rule of their Endgame is that there are no rules. Whoever finds the keys first wins the game. Endgame: The Calling is about the hunt for the first key. And just as it tells the story of the hunt for a hidden key, written into the book is a puzzle. It invites readers to play their own Endgame and to try to solve the puzzle. Whoever does will open a case filled with gold. Alongside the puzzle will be a revolutionary mobile game built by Google’s Niantic Labs that will allow you to play a real-world version of Endgame where you can join one of the lines and do battle with people around you.

Will exuberance beat strength? Stupidity top kindness? Laziness thwart beauty? Will the winner be good or evil? There is only one way to find out.

Play.
Survive.
Solve.
People of Earth.
Endgame has begun.


Publication Date: January 1, 2014

Date Read: April 14, 2015

Publisher: HarperTeen

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 477

MY REVIEW

Action-packed. Intriguing. Page-turner.

Let's talk about the characters. There are people who are chosen to be a player in Endgame. They're 12. These people will have to find the first key also called Earth Key. The one who wins will be saved from death and also the people from his/her line. The characters especially Sarah Alopay, Jago Tlaloc, Chiyoko Takeda are so badass and skilled because right from the beginning of their lives they are practicing to fight for Endgame.

Endgame is real. Endgame is now

All of the 12 players have their own POVs in this book which is good, for us to know their journey and their plans as the story unfolds but sometimes I felt confused because they're so many and at the same time their names are hard to memorize and weird. 

Our future is unwritten What will be will be.

This is the first big book that I have ever read and it took me a month to finish this not because it's just big but also because when I read Endgame, I became addicted to TV shows. This book is amazing, intriguing, action-packed and a page-turner because it is so good and there are many scenes from the book that made my heart beating so fast! 

They said that this is a Hunger Games copy but I think it's false and not true because even though there are elements that are the same, after I finished reading it I thought that these two are quite different because Endgame is more dark for me and the setting is not just in a place. It's so fun and interesting to follow the players progress as they travel to every different countries they have gone to.

The finale was intense and shocking. I am thrilled. I couldn't stop reading in the last thirty pages because of excitement and I want to know more. Now that the Earth Key has found, the first part of Endgame was done, what will happens next? Is the second part will be bloody as the first book? I really want to read the second book now but unfortunately it it not yet announced.

Ratings: 5/5 Stars