That's not even the worst of it. Rachel, Claire and Jude may be dead, but they aren't gone - Mara sees them in mirrors, hallways, and her dreams. The doctors tell her it's post-traumatic stress disorder, but Mara's not sure if she's slowly going crazy or if she's being haunted - and she's terrified that it might be something even worse. Mara hopes that moving from Rhode Island to Miami, Florida, will give her the fresh start she needs.
By the end of her first day at the prestigious Croyden Academy of the Arts and Sciences, Mara has managed to make enemies out of the extraordinarily vindictive Spanish teacher for no particular reason, along with mean girl Anna and her BFF and lacrosse jock Aiden Davis for somehow drawing the attention of the totally gorgeous, totally jerky Noah Shaw. Not to mention the hallucinations, the first spectacularly in her first class (which she was late for, of course), complete with asylum flashback, faceplant on the linoleum and bloody nose. So much for first impressions.
As if Mara doesn't have enough to do figuring out a new school, avoiding Anna and Aiden, catching up on schoolwork, ignoring her dead friends, and pretending to her parents that she's absolutely fine and definately not hallucinating daily, Noah Shaw seems to have made it his goal in life to make Mara next on his list of conquests. It doesn't help that Noah's brand of British snark is pretty much completely irrestible - Mara is completely disgusted with herself for going weak in the knees whenever he's around. Which, lately, is all of the time.
But when the owner of an abused dog Mara rescues turns up dead, in exactly the same way Mara visualized him dead only hours before, Mara is completely freaked. Something very, very weird is going on with her, and she needs to figure out what before anyone else dies. Hallucinations? Ghosts? Or something much more sinister? Eerie, dark, and deeply romantic, the twists and turns of The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer kept me guessing all the way to the end. Is Mara crazy? Haunted? Paranormal? Dreaming? Dead? Nothing is as it seems in this one, so if you love a good, totally freaky gothic thriller, be sure to put this first in a series on your list of must-reads!
Megan
(now reading Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake - the name says it all for this gory ghost story!)