Book Review - The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin | ★★★★

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT CONTINUE READING THE REVIEW IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER, YOU MAY GET SPOILED!

Mara Dyer wakes up in a psychiatric ward where she has been involuntarily committed. Her Doctor explains that she has been telling everyone about how she was the reason for the asylum to collapse and that she killed her friends, including her ex-boyfriend Jude. But Mara is not sure about killing Jude anymore, because right before she blacked out, he was standing in front of her. Was it only a hallucination again? Maybe it was, then Daniel, her brother, reassures her that it couldn´t have been Jude, the man in the hallucination had both hands, but one of Jude´s hands was found in the ruins of the asylum.

Book Review - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin | ★★★★

Mara Dyer, a 17-year-old girl, wakes up in hospital with no memory of what had happened. She learns that she survived a horrible accident, in which her best friend, Rachel, her boyfriend, Jude, and his sister, Claire, died. Late at night, they went to an abandoned Asylum, and while they were going through all the rooms, Jude stopped Mara and forced her to do things she wasn´t ready to do. Before anything bad between the two could happen,  there was a loud creak and the building collapsed. Mara herself is physically unharmed but suffers from severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and hallucinations. Together with her parents and her brother, she moves to Florida in hopes to over come the tragedy. 

Book Review - Witch Child by Celia Rees | ★★★★

1659: Mary, a 14-year-old girl from England, was raised by her grandmother, her parents left her at an early age, in a cottage at the very edge of a forest. After her grandmother was hanged as a witch, Mary has to leave her home. She is brought to a noblewoman who helps her acquire a new identity. It turns out that this noblewoman is her long lost mother. To escape prosecution, her mother decides it is best for Mary to join the group of settlers heading to America.

“I looked into her eyes, and saw my own staring back, the same peculiar shade, pale grey, flecked with yellow, rimmed with black. Now I knew the nature of her debt. It had weighed on her conscience for fourteen years. I was looking into the eyes of mother and I knew that I would never see her again.” 

Book Review - Shattered by Teri Terry | ★★★★

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT CONTINUE READING THE REVIEW FOR SHATTERED IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ SLATED AND FRACTURED, YOU MAY GET SPOILED! 

And again, the story continues to follow Kyla´s life after she was slated, found out about Ben and her leaving after the explosion of Nico´s com. After everything that happened, Kyla is finally ready to find out who she is and where she comes from. With the help of MIA(Missing in Action)-Member Aiden, she has the chance to get a new identity and travel to Keswick, the place where her mother should live.

While in Keswick, she discovers more and more about her past and at the same time lots of memories come back, mostly about her father, who she now knows died trying to safe her. But the more she finds out, the more disturbing it gets, because what Stella, her mother, tells her does mostly not go along with the memories Kyla´s getting back. For one point that is, that Stella and Daniel aren´t Kyla´s real parents.

Book Review - Where She Went by Gayle Forman | ★★★★

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT CONTINUE READING THE REVIEW FOR WHERE SHE WENT IF YOU HAVE NOT YET READ IF I STAY, YOU MAY GET SPOILED! 

The Sequel to If I Stay is told from Adams perspective. Adam was Mia´s boyfriend in the first book, where she survived a car crash that killed the rest of her family. In the end of the book Mia decided to stay alive as she heard Adam beg for her to stay and vow to her that he would do everything if she lives, even leave her.

Where She Went takes place three years after the accident. Adam is now 21 and a famous rock star, living in L.A. with his girlfriend, who is a not-so-famous movie actress. It turns out that Mia left Adam at the moment she stept onto the airplain, leaving to attend Julliard, without an explanation. The pain Adam is in after Mia left is ironically what brought him to fame, because of the intensly emotional lyrics of his new album.

Book Review - Slated by Teri Terry ★★★★

Yesterday I finished the book I picked from my TBR-Jar. It was quite interesting and I had a hard time to lay the book down. 

The story is about a sixteen year old girl, Kyla, who has been slated, that means all her memories were erased. She is told that all who had been slated were criminals but the government gave them a second chance to get their lives back instead of being in prison or getting terminated. However, this option is only possible for people under sixteen years. Now she must play by the rules set by the government, she must learn to fit in and not ask questions. Her new life is dominated by a wristband, a Levo, which connects to a counterpart implanted in her brain. This Levo controls her emotions and it forces a black out as soon as their mood levels drop to low. This method is used to stop the slated to fall into anger or depression, so they can´t hurt themselves or others. Further in the story, Kyla can't stop herself from questioning things, she doesn´t accept the phony answers she receives.