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"The  intrigue and romance will inescapably draw you in."

- Cassandra Clare, #1 New York Times bestselling

author of The Mortal Instruments series.

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer is about a girl named Mara Dyer who just got into an accident that killed her best friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's sister, but left her unharmed. She and her family decides to pack up and move to Florida, to give Mara a fresh new start, but things started to happen, she started to hallucinate things, or were they hallucinations?

This book is a fast paced, thrilling, paranormal romance that will keep you on the edge of your feet. I enjoyed this book immensely, and I would have given it 5 stars, but there were a few things I would've change. I really recommend you to read this book, if you havent already. Thats all for the non spoilers, if you havent read this book, you should go read it and come back to the spoilery section.

SPOILERS AHEAD!

OKAY! Book talk time,

First of all can I just say how talented Michelle Hodkin is, during the whole book I felt like I was going crazy just trying to figure out what was real and what was not, it was crazy. Mara is a really unreliable narator, but it just makes the book so much better, and guys Noah Shaw, honestly if he wasn't in the book I might not have read it as fast as I did, even though he is sort of a stereotypical bad boy, I just cant help but fall in love with him. Can we just for a moment talk about the Harry Potter references, like the part where Mara describes one of the girl dressing up as a "slutty gryffindor" or when Jamie said he was gonna try and find an owl to send a letter to Mara, I loved that. Speaking of Jamie, that dude was pure gold, thats all I could say, pure gold. Mara honestly has the best brothers on earth, I love how protective Daniel is, and Joseph is just adorable, but that scene when Noah knocked on Mara's window and said Joseph was missing, that was so frickin scary, also throughout this book there were certain deaths that happens after Mara imagines the person dies, firstly it happened to the dog, Mabel's owner, then to Morales, Mara's Spanish teacher, honestly I didn't mind at all about Morales death, she was just so annoying, like what kind of teacher throws chalk at her students? But the part where Mara did her exams, BAM I loved that scene, Morales was like "You may sit down Ms. Dyer" and Mara was like "I'm not done yet" and urgh, yeah! So the murder case that Mara's father took in had something in common with Joseph's kidnapping, the man who did it both wore rolexes, and can someone just agree with me about how disturbing it is when we find out that Jude is alive and well, and he is wearing a freacking rolex! What? what? What is happening? Like, I can't even... This book gave me a new reading experience, and overall I really did enjoy it, I can't wait to get the 2nd and 3rd books in my hands.