bookishbrunette

OMG! I am SO ashamed that it took me THIS freaking LONG to read this book! *dies*Mara Dyer starts out CREEPTASTIC with Mara, her best friend Rachel and her frenemy Claire playing with a Ouija board... And six months later Claire and Rachel are dead, and Mara wakes up in tethered to tubes in a hospital.Then as Mara is struggling to remember the events that landed her in the hospital... I'm crying like a little girl. ON PAGE 12."She [her mother] was the first to reach me that night when my screaming woke the neighbors, and she wastage one who caught me crying in my closet the next day. But it was only after she found me two days later, dazed and blinking and clutching a shard of broken mirror in my bloody hand, that she insisted on getting me help."Holy crap right?After the doctor's suggest that Mara be instatutionanalized, she convinces her mother that they should move away from all the memories that haunt her every waking hour instead. So they pack up and head to sunny Florida!I loved the way The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer was told... it flowed so easily and Mara was amusing, sarcastic and totally likable!Jamie ROCKED my freaking face off with his overly flamboyant AWESOME! Not even joking you,"Anna used to be the abstinence poster girl, but post-Shaw, you could write a comic book about the many adventures of her vagina. It could wear a cape."Things aren't going so hot in Florida as she continues to see the ghosts of he dead friends lurking about every corner... and Mara starts noticing things that can't be explained away. People are DYING. People she had wished dead.Then there's Noah...Super hot, mysterious, arrogant, fantastically sarcastic, unapologetically irreverant, closet SWEETHEART... Noah *sigh*"I find it hilarious that whenever I light up, American's look at me like I'm going to urinate on their children."This book kept me UP and turning pages WELL into the night, left me guessing around every corner... I HAD to know how it ended!!! Needless to say- I'm DYING for the sequel now!Mara Dyer is dark, suspenseful, haunting. heart-breaking... and FUNNY. Long story short- DO NOT wait as long as I did to read this book! It is AMAZING! The characters are to die for... *cough* Noah *cough*. The plot is twisted and filled with so many turns you can't help but lose yourself inside Michelle Hodkin's world of Mara Dyer!