

I've never read anything quite like it."-Veronica Roth, "New York Times" bestselling author of "Divergent Michelle Hodkin's talent and range are obvious, from her chilling descriptions to romantic scenes that almost crackled on the page. One minute I was laughing out loud, and the next, I was so scared I wanted to turn on all the lights and hide under the covers. ""The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer" strikes a rare balance of darkly funny, deliciously creepy and genuinely thoughtful. "Haunting and dreamlike, the intrigue and romance of Mara Dyer will inescapably draw you in." -Cassandra Clare, author of the "New York Times" bestselling Moral Instruments series This fast-paced psychological-or is it paranormal?-thriller will leave you breathless for its sequel, The Evolution of Mara Dyer. At school, there's Noah, a devastatingly handsome charmer who seems determined to help Mara piece together what's real, what's imagined-and what's very, very dangerous.

But that fresh start is quickly filled with hallucinations-or are they premonitions?-and then corpses, and the boundary between reality and nightmare is wavering. She lost her best friend, her boyfriend, and her boyfriend's sister, and as if that weren't enough to cope with, her family moves to a new state in order to give her a fresh start. She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love.Īfter Mara survives the traumatizing accident at the old asylum, it makes sense that she has issues. She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.

Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. Description Mara Dyer doesn't know if she is crazy or haunted-all she knows is that everyone around her is dying in this suspenseful and "strong, inventive tale" ( Kirkus Reviews).
