*I received an arc from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review*1) The unbecoming of Mara Dyer ★★★☆☆2) The evolution of Mara Dyer ★★★☆☆3) The retribution of Mara Dyer ★★☆☆☆4) The becoming of Noah Shaw ★★☆☆☆I haven’t read a book this bad in ages ohmygodNothing happens in this book. Nothing. Nada. Niente. Rien. It's basically 500 pages of Noah and Goose getting drunk, taking acids, falling into the stupidest traps and talking about Mara (who isn't even in the book, ugh).The only good thing that...

Thank you Edelweiss and Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for sending a review copy in exchange for an honest review.Michelle Hodkin is one of my absolute favorite authors. I was almost sobbing when I received an approval to review this book. Noah is one of my favorite characters ever. Reading from his point of view is a completely different experience than when we were reading from Mara’s perspective. I read this one in two days just like the previous book. Something about Michelle Hodki...

Trigger warnings for: suicide, depression, self harm, drug/alcohol abuseI really wanna know what Michelle was smoking when she wrote this because what the actual fuck. None of this makes sense. And not in the cool, what's real-what's not fashion of the original Mara Dyer series, it's just literally incomprehensible. I can kind of see what is trying to play out here, especially with some of the reveals at the end and the connection to the events in the first novel (that still needed LOADS more ex...

tw/ depression, suicidal thoughts and ideation, self-harmliterally nothing happened until the last page, and that cliffhanger bullshit ending can catch some hands*two days later*I'm adding to this review because it's absurd that this is even a real book. the writing reads like not a single editor has touched this. there's no clear beginning, middle, and end of this book. the edgy "ooooh, what's happening?" vibe from the original trilogy just turned into a straight-up mindfuck where literally not...

I feel like the moment I start to get a handle on this series slash spinoff the next book comes in and shoots it all to hell. I wish I knew why I was still reading but alas I need to see this through after all the time and effort I've put into it. And I did like the first of the The Shaw Confessions. Mostly because we were out of Mara's head.I honestly don't know what to say about this one. In true Hodkin fashion it once again seems like a lot of things happened but half of them feel unfinished....

Reading the arc for the Reckoning of an Asscrown was too much for my overheated mind and I almost collapsed after seeing the first page of Noahs' letter. His POV makes Noah more real and more tangible, than when we met him through Maras' eyes. It's not possible for me to find anything wrong with these series, I'm too much of a goner for that, and when I say that I love this twisted and messed up story, it's an understatement. I live and breathe with it, it's my personal kind of drug and I'm addi...

This series knows how to mess with your emotions. Get your heart racing and always, always leave you wanting more.After both the killer cliffhanger and heartbreaking ending of book one, I was left anxious to get my hands on book two. I just had to know that that wasn't how it all ended. That that wasn't the end period between so many beloved characters.Noah and Mara are explosive together, sometimes in the very worst ways possible but no, it couldn't end with them at odds with each other, it jus...

Noah. And Goose. And takes place in England. Those are my 3 reasons why I loved The Reckoning of Noah Shaw. And why you will too. It’s a simple as that. Or perhaps I’m just as simple as that. All I want is a somewhat naughty, foreign, foul mouthed, classically misunderstood bad-boy POV in YA, throw in some mystery, paranormal (not vampire paranormal but creepy paranormal) and I’m just freaking happy.

I can't do it. I just can't.I will just DNF this book. I will try to read it before the third book comes out, but I just can't handle how bad it is right now

Me: gives 1 star to The Becoming of Noah Shaw but adds book 2 to TBR because of the cover.

CAWPILE Rating: 8.71 (4 Stars)It is criminal for this book to be this good, and with no sign of the last book releasing anytime soon I am majorly upset. Was this book messy and confusing? Yes. Did I love every second of it? Yes. Full RTC! (I'm rereading the series on the weekend...so you'll see my review then.)

michelle is really good at writing stories that will creep and confuse the hell out of you (and i love her characters) but this just,,, didn’t do much for me tbhi feel like this book was really idle and it’s kinda unclear what the whole idea of this series is? mara dyer was mind blowing and it was a story of mara’s story that tied in with people’s around hers, but these noah shaw books are more like... other people’s plots and stories as the central idea and noah is just the person narrating the...

***NEGATIVITY OVERLOAD ALERTS!!! Please consider yourself warned before coming across my most unfavorable rant here. Thank you.*** H U G E - D I S A P P O I N T M E N TAmong all the Michelle Hodkin books I've read and loved, this one is undoubtedly my least favorite. ***Actual Rating: 2/5 Nonono Stars*** UUUUUGGGGGHHHHHH. The only reaction I have after "reading," hold on, what do you call when you flip through the entire book without really getting anything informative? Does it count as rea

I expected more.

Welp, I think I could hate every book in this new series and it wouldn’t stop me from binging them all. The Mara Dyer trilogy holds such a special place in my heart that I’ll read The Shaw Confessions just to see my favorite characters again. Also, this cover is pure gold 🔥👏🏻

UPDATE: July 10 2020A friend of mine just asked me what I think of this series and I was about to show her this review until I realized this review doesn't make any sense.But you get it, right? I HATED this book---------------------------------------------- Well, what a huge disappointment. So the reviews are right after all. This book sucks.You know that little suspense we have in The Becoming of Noah Shaw? Gone.You read that gripping mystery and mind fucks in the whats-real-whats-not way in

We left Becoming with shit hitting the fan and a huge comeback from a certain character. Reckoning picks up right from there, and if you really thought shit hit the fan in Becoming? EL OH EL, WE'RE ALL IN FOR A WILD RIDE. Upon starting the book, I had to put it down after reading the first page. I honestly could not handle my emotions. Noah's thoughts are so raw and bare, and I'm telling you guys, they're not always the nicest. They're not always the most romantic, or optimistic. But they're so

Oh man, I don’t have words, but I have a lot of feelings. I loved this portion of Noah’s story. I loved being in his head, being back in England, being with Goose. Seriously, I could read an entire book with Goose as the MC. Also, I desperately need him and Jamie together ASAP. Plot wise, it was fantastic and maddening and literally everything I could have wanted for a second book in a trilogy. We get some answers and more questions, and you bet your sweet ass there’s a cliffhanger ending. I ref...

Even though the first book disappointed me a bit, I'm still super-psyched for The Reckoning because dammit I want Noah and Mara and Jamie and all their peeps to make it out of this new series happy!Except if this ARC is anything to go by, they don't, but what else is new?This one still isn't as good for me as the original series was, mostly due to a somewhat unfocused second half that kinda drags it down. But the first half, when we get an extended flashback to the time when Noah was, um, in cap...

2.5 stars