The Unbecoming Of Mara Dyer

You wake up with no memory of the last few days.
Your friends were killed in an accident that you miraculously survived.
Your family has to move to another state to escape the fallout.
You meet a mysterious boy who seems to know more about you than you do.
You start seeing things that can't possibly be there.
You are afraid you are losing your mind.
Can you keep it together?
Mara Dyer is about to find out.

This book is the first in a trilogy.

OH MY GOODNESS. This book was simple amazing. It was so creepy, intense, depressing, funny, romantic, and so much more. Mara wakes up in the hospital after an old building has collapsed on her and her friends. Mara was the only one that survived, and her family moves to Florida to help her get over her grief. But soon, she starts to see her dead friends everywhere she goes and imagining things that are not actually happening. She meets Noah Shaw, a boy who has slept around, and feels drawn to him. But is she really going crazy?

I loved this book. This book spans over months (I think!) and while Mara's romance with Noah at first seemed like it would be another case of insta-love, it really wasn't. It would have been so easy fro Michelle Hodkin to make it that way, and I give her credit for not giving in. There were so many twists and turns in the story line, and it kept me on edge. It is not a horror story exactly, but there are some pretty heavy things in this book, but they are well passed with the happy, sexy, and funny moments. Overall just a wonderful story, and cannot wait to get my hands on the other books.

Angelfall by Susan Ee

Title: Angelfall
Author: Susan Ee
Genre: Dystopian
Page Count: 284
Awards: Over 4,000 5-star reviews, Finalist for Cybils Bloggers' Award for Best YA Fantasy & Sci-Fi Book Of The Year 2011
Rating: 5/5 stars

Summary:
It has been 6 weeks since the angels destroyed the world as we knew it. Cannibals and human gangs threaten during the daytime, while almost no one dares to step outside during the night.
Penryn and her mother and sister are out one night when they see a group of angels attacking another angel. Penryn is soon spotted, and as her mother runs and her sister tries to wheel her wheelchair up the road, Penryn tries to distract the angels by giving the wounded angel back his sword.
And as punishment, Paige is taken.
And her sister will do anything to get her back, even making a deal with Raffe, the angel she handed the sword to. Raffe will do anything for his wings back, even helping a teenage girl go into his greatest enemies.

What I Thought:
This book was amazing. Penryn was such a strong lead character. She was willing to risk everything and anything to find Paige and return her home. Raffe was so difficult to work with at the beginning of the book, I probably would have given up on getting his help. But Penryn didn't and eventually, Raffe agreed to help her, which I thought was awesome. While this book was a dystiopian, it stood out in the over crowded washed out genre. It was dark, twisted, funny, and romantic, and I loved every second of it. I highly recommend this book

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