A review by bookishdaylight
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

adventurous dark mysterious tense slow-paced

4.0

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”

A mysterious, psychotic, and somber story about an unusual girl with a strange view of the world that questions what is real and what is an illusion.  A story with a disorienting and alarming set of visions of adventures that unravels the creepy notions of the truth of the girl's life with an unreliable character with a circumstance that makes the imagination quite questionable.

 “There's nothing I want. There's nothing I can't do. I don't care about anything. No matter what, I am an imposter. An actor in my own life.”

Filled with a mystery, a strange and atypical set of characters about the unexpected events that happened and maybe somehow connected to it altogether. A dark, twisted, and challenging set of reality with an intriguing creepy sense of it all. The two main characters are alike and somehow different in their way without knowing the intention of the other.

Overall it is a very slow but intentional pace with how the story progressed to uncover the truth of it all.