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| 4/5 stars |
In this book, we follow Mara as she struggles with survivor's guilt because of an accident that killed her best friend, (ex) boyfriend and his sister.
I enjoyed the family dynamics because her parents are present and try to find out what's going on with her. Mara's older brother, Daniel, gets her out of trouble on many occasions and she is very protective over Joseph, her younger brother. Mara feels like a genuine person, you feel her emotions and can imagine her reactions to the things that are happening in her life.
This book was published in 2011 and I am glad that I missed the 'hype' and the spoilers. There are lots of twists because of the paranormal genre that this book falls into. I haven't read any paranormal books for a long time so it was a pleasant surprise when I bought the entire trilogy on Audible. (Reviews for Books 2 and 3 will be in upcoming blog posts!) I enjoyed Christy Romano's voice, she made each character individual and unique so that you could follow them easily.
I liked Mara's friendship with Jamie more than her relationship with Noah. I felt like she was more genuine and open around Jamie. Mara isn't friends with many female characters which is disappointing but somewhat predictable in Young Adult fiction. Mara is an unreliable narrator because of her struggles with mental health. This made me question whether some things were actually happening or whether she'd imagined them.
Overall, the experience of this book was satisfying, however, I wouldn't have predicted some of the events. I thought it was going in a completely different direction.
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