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The Reckoning of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin (Review #183)

WARNING: SPOILER ALERT: IF YOU HAVE NOT READ BOOK 1 OF THE SHAW CONFESSIONS, OR THE MARY DYER TRILOGY, STOP NOW. DO NOT READ. THIS IS BOOK  2 OF THE SHAW CONFESSIONS, SEQUEL TRILOGY TO THE MARA DYER TRILOGY. FOR THE REVIEW OF THE SHAW CONFESSIONS BOOK 1, CHECK OUT THE BECOMING OF NOAH SHAW.

FOR THE REVIEWS OF THE MARA DYER TRILOGY, CHECK OUT THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER, THE EVOLUTION OF MARA DYER, AND THE RETRIBUTION OF MARA DYER.

"Noah Shaw doesn’t think he needs his father’s inheritance. He does.

Noah believes there’s something off about the suicides in his visions. There is.

Noah is convinced that he still knows the real Mara Dyer. He does not.

Everyone thought the nightmare had ended with Mara Dyer’s memoirs, but it was only the beginning. As old skeletons are laid bare, alliances will be tested, hearts will be broken, and no one will be left unscarred."

Review:
Holy rollercoaster, Batman. Listen, we're five books deep and things still keep getting flipped upside down. Noah and Mara broke up. Noah can't seem to stay sober for very long, and when he is, he's plagued with memories he doesn't want to remember, or memories he doesn't exactly remember making. Along for the ride is his friend Goose, brand new to our little... adventure, if you want to call it that. 

Oh and Mara's ageless grandmother - also named Mara - pops up a few times too. Just when you think you have this story pinned, it changes course and I'm not sure where I stand with that, if I'm being honest. Noah and Goose are traveling all across England in search for answers, only to leave us with an ever enticing cliffhanger. 

All I can say is that when the finale finally comes (whenever that is), I don't think I (or anyone for that matter) will be ready for what is to come...


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