Teaser Tuesday[262]: The Becoming of Noah Shaw (The Shaw Confessions, #1) by Michelle Hodkin

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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The Becoming of Noah Shaw (The Shaw Confessions, #1) by Michelle Hodkin

Genre: YA Supernatural

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release Date: November 7th, 2017

Buy it here: Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository. Powells.

Goodreads Synopsis:

In the first book of the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New York Times bestselling Mara Dyer novels, old skeletons are laid bare and new promises prove deadly. This is what happens after happily ever after.

Everyone thinks seventeen-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string.

They’re wrong.

Mara Dyer is the only one he trusts with his secrets and his future.

He shouldn’t.

And both are scared that uncovering the truth about themselves will force them apart.

They’re right.

Excerpt:

“It's.. I'm—

Triggered. Triggered is the word for it, much as I hate to admit.” (Hardback, pg. 156)

What are you reading?

Novel Review: The Retribution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #3) by Michelle Hodkin

Rating (Out of 5): ~4

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Release Date: November 2014

Spoilers?: No.

Buy it here: Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository. Powells.

Teaser Tuesday. Wishlist Thursday.

Goodreads Synopsis:

Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told.
There is.

She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.
She should.

She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.
She will now.

Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story.
Retribution has arrived.

The Cover:

I love all the covers of this series. They all go together so well, and this one is just as pretty as the others. And I think it fits the book very well, too.

Quotes:

•  "'The people we care about are always worth more to us than the people we don’t. No matter what anyone pretends.’” (Hardback, Pg. 399)
• "The ability to heal does not make one good any more than the ability to kill makes one evil. Kill the right people, and you become a hero. Heal the wrong ones, and you become a villain. It is our choices that define us, not our abilities.” (Pg. 422)

Review:

This last book was surprising and hard and so very good.

Mara goes through a hard change, a very dark one. There’s some serious violence here, and Mara deals with it the only way she can, which is something that everyone else has a very hard time taking. But she has violence and destruction in her, and she accepts that.

Noah is missing. Horribly so. And this does horrible things to Mara, in particular.

Mara does a lot, going on a journey with several people, doing bad things and things that need to happen. I don’t know what else to say, because I don’t want to ruin any of it.

The climax is… surprising, and horrible, and I’m still a little unsure of how it worked. But it did, and I’m okay with that. I wanted that. We get some answers for Mara’s visions, as well as how they all work and why they’re like this.

I will say that I was a little disappointed with the opening line of the first book (“My name is not Mara Dyer…”), because I had hoped it would be more, there would be more answer and excitement to that statement, but that’s all right.

This was a very good conclusion to the series. I’m happy with how it all worked out, and I liked the dark side that Mara ended up on, with the surprise of it. I look forward to whatever Hodkin releases next.

Teaser Tuesday[129]: The Retribution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #3) by Michelle Hodkin

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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The Retribution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #3) by Michelle Hodkin

Genre: YA Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release Date: November 4, 2014

Buy it here: Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository. Powells.

Wishlist Thursday.

Goodreads Synopsis:

Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told.
There is.

She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.
She should.

She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.
She will now.

Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story.
Retribution has arrived.

Excerpt:

“I woke up while it was still dark. I dressed in Noah’s clothes—his T-shirt, which hung loose over my narrow shoulders, and his jeans, which I had to roll up before I could walk. I didn’t care how I looked; wearing his clothes made me feel closer to him, and I needed that for what I would have to do today.” (Hardback, pg. 152)

What are you reading right now?

Wishlist Thursday[81]: Kiss of the Rose Princess by Aya Shouoto & The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Kiss of the Rose Princess Volume 1 by Aya Shouoto

Publisher: Shojo Beat (VIZ Media)

Release Date: November 4, 2014

Volumes: 9

Buy it here: Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository. Powells. RightStuf.

Goodreads Synopsis:

Anise Yamamoto has been told that if she ever removes the rose choker given to her by her father, a terrible punishment will befall her. Unfortunately she loses that choker when a bat-like being falls from the sky and hits her. Anise is granted four cards representing four knights whom she can summon with a kiss. But now that she has these gorgeous men at her beck and call, what exactly is her quest?!

Why?:

This series sounds like it’s just for me. It sounds cute and funny, and what I’ve seen of the art looks very pretty. This seems like a very cute reverse-harem series, and I hope it’s as good as I feel like it will be, because I’m getting a very good intuition feel from it. I can’t wait to get my hands on this book.

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The Retribution of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer, #3) by Michelle Hodkin

Genre: YA Paranormal Thriller/Horror Romance

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release Date: November 4, 2014

Buy it here: Amazon. Barnes and Noble. Book Depository. Powells.

Goodreads Synopsis:

Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told.
There is.

She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.
She should.

She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.
She will now.

Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story.
Retribution has arrived.

Why?:

I am so excited for this book. I have been loving this series so far, and even been impressed by some of it, and I cannot wait to see how this series ends. And after the release date being moved back, I’m even more eager. And given that I’m in the mood for something spooky, this cannot come soon enough. (Although, to be fair, I hadn’t even realized that this was coming out so soon!)

What are you looking forward to?