And when things predictably went wrong at the end of the book. Everyone fucking lying and keeping secrets, are not helping me to sympathize it actually makes me so annoyed. Multiply that by like everyone and it sums up The Becoming of Noah Shaw completely.
The casual book trope I hate so much: keeping secrets from each other and usually ends in things going wrong. Noah and co basically spent the book lounging and thinking and… lying to each other.Īh, the lying to each other part. Statistically speaking, things actually started happening in the last 3 chapters or so. The gripping, keeps-you-on-the-edge-of-your-seat mystery feeling is still there but it’s much duller than the Mara Dyer trilogy. You see, I usually love when things went down but the ‘crazy batshit’ phrase mean it’s so crazy that it’s hard to connect it with the original series and it felt more like fan fiction than an actual book for me. Here’s the basic: basically after Retribution where we all thought Noah and Mara would get their happy ending, everything went crazy batshit. The story picked up like some time after Retribution and we open the book with Noah attending his father’s funeral. Yes, I loved him that much that I remember. So yes, the book is on Noah’s POV (and though I don’t love him in this book I remember how I was like preaching about this guy. But alas, I feel like it’s not as bad as anyone says. Reading the negative reviews actually got me thinking (they’re everywhere! I mean the rating for the book is about 3.7 the last time I checked and it’s not a good rating…). Two, I ‘m not even sure what I hate about Retribution except that I wasn’t feeling the experiments(?) (if it could be called that). With that being said, I tried to give out ratings for this one as objective as I could because one, 14 year old me and the current me might have some… different thoughts. I had some love-hate relationship with the original series and I remember not liking Retribution as much as its predecessors.
I can’t find any recap on the internet but can’t find any so I went into this book blind. Besides, I forgot what basically happened in the original series and I was so confused as to what the fuck is this book talking about in most part. I read Retribution on 2015 (I was 14) and now I’m 18 years old, practically a college student and hell yes there must be some growing up happening. Mara Dyer trilogy is one of my earliest series though I felt like it was not but it is. Like even more pumped when I heard it’s written in Noah’s POV. When I first heard there would be a spin-off to the Mara Dyer trilogy, I was pumped. ” I won’t quit the game, I’ll destroy the fucking board.”
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