The Evolution of Mara Dyer
Ratings59
Average rating3.9
3.5 stars! I can't even vent right now without spoiling everything about this book.... WHY?!?!?!
This book pissed me off in a good way?? I love it??
also big up to this one for curing me of my reading slump 🙏🏼
Definitely better than first one, but still for 3/4 of book I didn't knew what's going on, then few last pages was like ohh it have sense now.
So good. So so good! I loved this book. The ending really got to me, and I love Noah Shaw so much <3. I'm not entirely sure how the third book is going to go, I feel like things definitely could have been tied up in this one and it could have been a duology rather than a trilogy. Plus I've heard the third book isn't very good which makes me really nervous, but here's to reading it anyways. And this book was AMAZING. Due to class I couldn't read it as much as I wanted to, but I feel like I definitely could have devoured this book just as fast I did the first one which I finished in less than a day.
it's really just a 2.5 but wth right? just feel like I'm getting too old for this shit... anyways this one didnt grab me like the first but damn...that twist at the end...now I've got to finish the damn series..
4.5. Very surprising and unpredictable but the author is tackling A LOT so let's see where it goes.....
When I read the first book, I was pretty disappointed. Everyone kept going on and on about how “scary” and “creepy” the books were, and I didn't find anything creepy about the first book. I love horror, so the creepiness felt a little flat for me. However, this book really stepped up on the creepy/scary factor. I have no words to describe my emotions right now. Honestly, this book was AMAZING! I was so confused, so creeped out and I just didn't know what to think about anything. The entire time I had no idea if I could really trust Mara and her thoughts. I was just waiting for her to wake up at some asylum and find out everything was in her head. But that didn't happen.
So many unanswered questions that I am dying to know. Hopefully the third book covers it, but I'm so impatient, I need to know now! Her grandma, oh my god whats up with those flashbacks in India? Was it really her grandma or Mara in a past life? What went on between her grandma and Noah's real mom? And what about all that crazy shit with Jude and the others that apparently possess their own powers? I could go on and on about all the million questions that I have, but I'll just get super frustrated all over again.
Oh Noah. I refuse to believe that he died. REFUSE. He can't he can't. I'm just waiting for his grand debut in the final book because I'll be devastated if he dies and Jude lives. Ugh, I just wanted to go into this book and smack the crap out of her family members and make them believe Mara. I know that to them she just sounds crazy, and they mean well, but it hurt my heart knowing the truth while her family just stayed in the dark.
And can we talk about Dr. Kells? There's something much more to her, and I have a feeling that Dr. Kells isn't even her real name, I wouldn't be surprised if she wasn't even a real doctor. I feel like she might have powers herself, maybe she knew Mara's grandma and Noah's mom, maybe it was a group or cult of some kind. I'm just dying to pick up the third book, but at the same time I don't want to burn out.
This book just tugged at my emotions and I just hope everything will be okay in the end. And I just need some goddamn answers.
These books are just so easy to read. So, so addictive, too.
They would make fantastic movies.
And while this wasn't what I expected, I ended up loving it. Moving on to the next one ASAP.
I'M BROKEN.
I'm at level ‘Mara'.
I don't know what to believe nor who to trust. Bye and give me more because that was utterly brilliant overall.
Congratulations then to Michelle Hodkin for trying to destroy my life in such a delightful way.
No Spoiler Review:
Absolutely amazing second coming of this series. All the best characters from the first book come back and get developed in fascinating ways. Noah's psychology is delved into. The mystery deepens. It is impossible to predict what's happening. It's often impossible to know what is currently happening in the scene, but in the best most intriguing ways possible. And this book gives us some of the scenes through Noah's perspective (through a clever means) which just adds fantastic layers. I loved it. It was just as captivating as the first and did not disappoint.
****Spoiler review. Warning. Continue at own risk*******
What did I just read?
I mean that in a good way. It is fantastic! But whaat the absolute heck is happening now? Everything with Jude? And oh gosh. Noah! Noah's backstory was heart breaking. His perspective in the journal undid me. I love everything about this book.
I almost couldn't read the scene with her wrists slit and her families response after. It was that powerful. And then realizing that Daniel got the call that she had tried to kill herself. Can you imagine? Daniel needs all the hugs.
I was thrilled with the addition of Stella and the reveal about Jamie being one of them! I love Jamie. I can't get enough of his dialog.
A+ book!
In honor of Retribution coming out tomorrow, I decided to read this so that I can read Retribution right away. The book was better and crazier than the first. After the first, I felt like I had a good grip on what was happening in the book and the series as a whole, but this book completely obliterated all that. I'm currently sitting here in shock because I have no idea what to expect in the final book of the trilogy. I can say that I'm super excited to read it.
That ending...WHYYYYYYYY?! still not completely sure Noah's dead, though...though it'd be kind of...weird and strangely good if he did end up being alive. It would just be...unrealistic...I guess you could say. But it'd be a nice thing to happen...though it'd be...what was it called? Predictable. THAT'S THE WORD
Just as unputdownable as the first one, but this time I did NOT see the big twist coming. Except for the fact that I've been predicting since book 1 that Noah's mysterious bio-chem dad is behind all this somehow, and this book definitely seems to strengthen that theory. Can't for the life of me figure out what the motivation would be, though.
The editor could have taken a heavier hand with this–I feel like not too much happened in this book, and it is a pet peeve of mine when book 2 in trilogies exist only to set up the plot of book 3. Something should happen, at least. Don't just give us a massive cliffhanger with more questions than answers.
Also, is anyone else as stupified as I am that the Dyers didn't replace all their locks when Daniel's key went missing? ZOMGWTFICE. I get it, without this handy convenience, half the book couldn't have happened. But seriously, folks, this almost ruined it for me.
(Review originally posted here at The Book Barbies.)
*Warning: This review contains mild spoilers for the first in the series. Do not read unless you have read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer.
What a tremendous in second installation in the trilogy! Although I was captivated by the first book in the series, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, it fell short in some ways for me. Evolution, however, exceeded my expectations. It was slightly less creepy, which I appreciated, but still just as thrilling and intense. (Seriously. I was alone in the house, curled up into a breathless, tension-filled ball on the downstairs couch for most of it. When I did finish it, my bladder was about to explode, and it was 2 hours past my normal dinner time. Talk about unputdownable!)
Interestingly, I liked almost all the characters better in this book than the first one. Noah was definitely the biggest one. I really tried to like him in Unbecoming because I kept seeing people talk about how amazing he was, but although he had some redeeming qualities, I was less than impressed. In Evolution, though, I grew to love him a lot more. He finally had some depth as a character and acted a lot less like a boy I'd like to punch in the face. I also liked Jamie more in this book; he annoyed me before.
The relationship between Mara and Noah was developed in a way that made me root for them. Although they displayed some codependency, which is popular in YA novels and always annoys me, they were also in nowhere near normal circumstances. Therefore, I could excuse it. They also had some pretty darn swoon-worthy scenes and sexual tension for a YA book, too. Loved it!
Story-wise, this book had some crazy twists and turns! There were some I saw coming and still jumped when they happened. If Hodkin excels at anything, it is writing jaw-dropping, hit-you-over-the-head, OH-MY-GOD-DID-I-REALLY-JUST-READ-THAT-RIGHT scenes.
If the trilogy keeps improving like this, I cannot wait to see what is in store in the concluding book, The Retribution of Mara Dyer (out WAY WAY FAR AWAY D: Summer 2013)!
Random note: I did not notice #213 in this book. I wonder if all the uses of it in Unbecoming were just coincidence, or if it is going to come into play in the next book?