#the reckoning of noah shaw

[mzradyer]

destroyer x healer

mara dyer and noah shaw from the unbecoming of mara dyer by michelle hodkin

#mara dyer #noah shaw #marashaw #michelle hodkin #the unbecoming of mara dyer #the evolution of mara dyer #the retribution of mara dyer #the shaw confessions #the becoming of noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #the last confessions of mara dyer and noah shaw

[marashawness]

characters of the mara dyer series as jung’s archetypes.

An archetype is a universally understood symbol or term or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated.

part 1 / part 2 

#mara dyer #noah shaw #jamie roth #daniel dyer #jude lowe #mara dyer trilogy #the unbecoming of mara dyer #The Evolution of Mara Dyer #the retribution of mara dyer #the becoming of noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #mara dyer edit #mara shaw #book edit #ya edit #the mara dyer series #edit #my edit #the last confessions of mara dyer and noah shaw #the shaw confessions

[theshawconfessions]

“Because my mind is most definitely the problem. How do you escape when the enemy is you?”

– The Reckoning of Noah Shaw, Page 61.

#noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #michelle hodkin #book quotes #quotes

[unorganisedbookshelf]

just finished my reread of ‘the reckoning of noah shaw’ and going absolutely feral (yet again) for book three - literally the most underrated series of all time and everyone hates on it :’)

(if you want to read please read mara dyer before hand as this is a sequel series!)

#mara dyer #noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #michelle hodkin #ya books #ya paranormal #paranormal books

[likeaheartbeat]

is it god or is it me?

normal people, sally rooney / the marvelous mrs. maisel / the reckoning of noah shaw, michelle hodkin / fleabag / graceland too, phoebe bridgers

#web weaving #fleabag #normal people #the marvelous mrs maisel #phoebe waller bridge #midgelenny #fleabag x the priest #noah shaw #mara dyer #the reckoning of noah shaw #phoebe bridgers

[betweenthepage]

“I believe in justice. I just think we have to make it for ourselves.” - The Reckoning of Noah Shaw by @michellehodkin

📸IG: B3tweenthepage

#Michelle hodkin #Noah Shaw #shaw confessions #the reckoning of Noah shaw #mara Dyer #rose speaks #my stuff

[theballadoffinchesandsaints]

Why don’t you like Mara and Noah together?

I’ll preface this by saying that, on the spectrum of fictional relationships that I find problematic, these two are fairly close to healthy. I do not think these two are past the point of no return, and I do not think they were always unhealthy. If issues that have arisen in the past few books are carefully dealt with in last confessions (the upcoming 6th and final book), I would be more than happy to see these two get back together and a live long happy lives with each other. This might end up being a tad disorganized, so bare with me.

Now Mara and Noah had a bit of a damsel in distress/knight in shining armor thing going on during unbecoming and evolution (books 1 and 2). However, I don’t see anything inherently wrong with this so long as Mara is able to get her emotional independence fully back eventually. And by retribution and becoming (books 3 and 4), I do think she got there. The issue that arose here is more of a character flaw with Mara than anything else. She gained back her independence in retribution and becoming with violence (the boys in the subway she almost killed because they were verbally harassing someone, sacrificing all those cops to save Noah, and murdering Noah’s dad). I worry that Mara’s shadow tendencies take over too much when she is fighting for Noah or simply with Noah. This is one of many reasons I appreciate that Mara and Noah were separated during reckoning (book 5). While Noah was learning to live on his own, Mara was able to do the same thing somewhere else. We don’t know how well that went, but we’ll find out in last confessions, and I’m hopeful.

The second issue is the common YA trope: trust. One of the beautiful things about Mara and Noah’s relationship in unbecoming and evolution was the level of full disclosure they reached. As far as I can remember, by the end of evolution, they kept no prominent secrets from each other. There were stumbles along the way with moments like Mara reading Noah’s diary, but that was one mistake, and she felt awful about it almost immediately and came clean. Unfortunately, things started to spiral in retribution. We know that both Mara and Noah went through some of their worst trauma of the series so far during retribution as they were experimented on by those paid to keep them healthy. The sad thing is that these things happened to them while they were apart, and they let it grow a wall between them. There’s this section of retribution that has always bugged me where Mara and Noah are lying in bed together, and Mara notes how things feel different between her and Noah, less intimate and close. Of course, change after trauma is inevitable and should be accepted, but the fact that she does not feel the need to address this new distance again and works towards regaining their emotional closeness through open conversation worries me. Instead, they have a short conversation about the nature of their relationship as pertaining to the hero and shadow archetypes and what that means for the future. It could be argued that this is a symbolic conversation that does represent the two growing back together, but it does not explicitly address the things each has gone through and the ways they have changed. Instead, they each make their own assumptions and call it understanding. Finally, instead of opting for a discussion to correct the mistakes made when assuming, the two have sex. This brings me to my third point.

At times when Mara and Noah are keeping secrets from each other or are deeply upset over something, they use sex as a coping mechanism. Let’s go encounter by encounter. I have already explained the issues with the time at the end of retribution, so i’ll skip that one here. The second one, while they technically did not have sex, is close enough even besides the point that it was their full intention to do so. This scene takes place at Noah’s dad’s funeral when they sneek off instead of attending the service. Of course, it’s worth bringing up here that the service is Mara’s fault. She killed Noah’s dad in cold blood (I know Noah’s dad was an awful person and deserved what he got, but that’s not the point) and kept it a secret. Now, Noah hated his dad. There’s a good chance he would have agreed with killing his dad or at least been ambivalent if told. He even says that his dad really died with his mother. But Mara didn’t tell Noah, she kept it a secret, and there’s no way that wasn’t on her mind when they were kissing on that altar. Noah, on the other hand, used the physical aspect of his relationship with Mara to avoid dealing with his feelings over his dad’s death, even if he wasn’t truly grief-stricken. It’s escapism, plain and simple, and it’s not healthy. Finally, later in retribution, there’s the first night at their apartment. I don’t remember precisely what he was doing, but Noah snuck away from his group of friends to work on something he was keeping secret from Mara. When she confronts him on this, Noah is evasive. Then he distracts her by kissing her, and Mara stops asking about Noah’s secret. In all three of these scenarios, Mara and Noah use sex, not as a way to express love, but as a way to run from their problems or hide their guilt.

Finally, both Mara and Noah are deeply uncomfortable with the way each views and uses their power. Neither person is particularly at fault in these instances, but it demonstrates an extreme disconnect glossed over by the ways they view each other. Examples with Mara’s powers are everywhere. Noah breaks up with her because of them. The cops, his dad, it horrifies him, and he doesn’t even know about the boys on the subway in retribution. He assumed he understood her darkness by the end of retribution, but they never really broke down the wall that had formed between them. Then there’s Noah’s power. At the party at Noah and Mara’s flat, Noah wants to prove to Goose that his powers are real. To Mara’s horror, Noah says he’ll cut himself so Goose can watch the cut heal itself even though he and Mara previously agreed that he would never try to hurt himself again. In the same way that the worst thing in Noah’s eyes that Mara could do is sacrifice dozens of seemingly good people for him, the worst thing Noah could do to Mara is hurt himself. And yet, they’re both willing to do these things to each other even though they know it hurts them. At least, Noah certainly does. But, while Mara might have believed she was doing a good thing for Noah, she was not open about it like Noah was.

All in all, things were really reaching a boiling point at the end of becoming, and I’m glad they separated. This way, they can work through their own personal issues separately and then focus on fixing their relationship. Because I truly am rooting for these two. It is certainly possible that Mara and Noah can make peace with each other, themselves, and their emotions enough to be better together than they are apart. This is why the end of reckoning scares me. Noah losing his memories of Mara seems like a set-up to a darkest minds style ending where the characters never really get past their relationship issues. These two need to accept their past and learn from their mistakes, not try to forget everything. I hope that will be the theme of the final book. Then maybe madness could turn into happiness.

(The Mara Dyer/Shaw Confessions series is written by @michellehodkin)

#mine #mara dyer #mara amitra dyer #noah shaw #noah elliot simon shaw #mara x noah #mara and noah #madness #the unbecoming of mara dyer #the evolution of mara dyer #the retribution of mara dyer #the becoming of noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #the last confessions of mara dyer and noah shaw #the mara dyer trilogy #shaw confessions #michelle hodkin #cw self harm

[artscapade]

I met Michelle Hodkin in 2015, had her sign my paintings, and gave her a painting of her pets to keep. What she wrote on my copy of Unbecoming still resonates heavily with me today.

I’m going through a series of terrible days and her words — two mundane words — have gotten me through the worst of them. I’m unable to get it tattooed yet, but someday I will. For now, hopefully, this should suffice.

Happy International Women’s Day! A little reminder from Mara Dyer and Michelle Hodkin to own ourselves.

@michellehodkin​

#mara dyer #noah shaw #michelle hodkin #maradyeredit #the unbecoming of mara dyer #the evolution of mara dyer #the retribution of mara dyer #the becoming of noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #the last confessions of mara dyer and noah shaw

[not-inthatway]

All the covers from The Mara Dyer Trilogy and The Shaw Confessions by Michelle Hodkin (@michellehodkin )

#mara dyer #noah shaw #mara dyer trilogy #the shaw confessions #the unbecoming of mara dyer #the evolution of mara dyer #the retribution of mara dyer #the becoming of noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #the last confessions of mara dyer and noah shaw #michelle hodkin #madness #marashaw #[those are a lot of tags!] #[i opened photoshop in ages for this]

[blurrypetals]

The Reckoning of Noah Shaw by Michelle Hodkin - blurrypetals review

originally posted jan. 7, 2019 - ★★☆☆☆

It is so absolutely baffling to me that a publisher looked at this and went, "Yup, nothing wrong with this, send it to print," and it appears nobody important could stop the train on its way to the trainwreck that would become The Shaw Confession. The Becoming of Noah Shaw was, as I established in my review, Not Very Good. Michelle Hodkin hasn't been a great writer in my eyes since The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer in 2011, and I think she's only sealed her dire fate here in this book. Hodkin, even back when I enjoyed her work, always felt to me like someone who did not know how to swim who jumped off a boat into the center of a deep, dark lake in the middle of the night and left to flounder without a life vest, a sense of direction, or even the faintest idea as to why she'd jumped off the boat in the first place. She was able to tread water for a book in a half, then just barely pulled her head above water for the last few chapters of the Mara Dyer, dragging herself onto shore, exhausted and still without a clue as to why she'd put herself in that situation. But she was ashore, she was in the clear...until she went straight back out into the water three years later with no better knowledge about swimming or the reason why she was swimming, as if gasping in lungfuls of lake water could possibly tell her why she was doing this. This incredibly drawn out metaphor is all to say this: I don't get the sense that Hodkin knows why she's writing books, but she just does it and then struggles and gasps and flounders until she gets to a suitable enough word count to call whatever she just did "novel writing." There is zero semblance of direction, of a three act structure, or really even of arcs at all. Events just seem to happen at Hodkin's whims, making the structure (or lack thereof) just as muddy, confusing, and uninviting to the reader as the lake I described in my metaphor. I have actually been trying quite hard to describe, if not for the review, then just for myself, the sequence of events that I just listened to and I can't find the clarity or coherence to do that. It feels like a game I can't win, because it's not winnable. Characters do things, events happen, people and places exist, but I am struggling most to even hash together why most of those things exist in the book. It wasn't to service the "plot," it wasn't to provide information or levity, it wasn't...anything. It was pointless and strange (even for a Mara Dyer/Noah Shaw book) and I was completely lost the entire time from start to finish. I was extra lost, I'm sure, because I didn't remember most of the clusterfuck that is The Becoming of Noah Shaw either. I described it well in the only update I posted for this book as I read: I'm in a constant state of long term memory loss with these books. I never remember where the last one left off, and when the next one picks up, I feel like someone's chucked a bag of bricks at me and yelled, "Catch!" and, due to my failure to catch, I'm bowled over and left confused, disoriented, and a little angry Michelle Hodkin managed to successfully chuck a bag of bricks at me for the fourth consecutive time. However, now that I've (supposedly) just finished the penultimate entry in the series, I'll still pull through for the finale, even if I don't remember any of this book or its predecessors by the time I get there. But I'll get there, one way or another because. Hopefully Hodkin can take a few swimming lessons between now and then, but I won't be holding my breath.

#the reckoning of noah shaw #the shaw confessions #mara dyer #michelle hodkin #2019 #goodreads mirror #blurrypetals

[jadecourtney98]

THE RECKONING OF NOAH SHAW by Michelle Hodkin | Book Discussion | JC

#book discussion #booktalk #book review #booktube #booktuber #mara dyer #noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #the shaw confessions #jade courtney #ya literature #book tumblr #booklr #books #reading #bookworm

[bigdreamsandwildthings]

#booklr #book photography #tbr #book dedication #slayer #kiersten white #i love it when my stack is colour coordinated #the reckoning of noah shaw #small spaces #the brilliant death #the city of brass #the caged queen #the devil's thief #bookworm #bibliophile #book community #ya fiction #ya fantasy #ya paranormal #my photos #mine

[marashawness]

“The villain is the hero of her own story. No one thinks they’re a bad person. Everyone has reasons for what they do.” 

#mara dyer #the unbecoming of mara dyer #the evolution of mara dyer #the retribution of mara dyer #mara dyer series #michelle hodkin #noah shaw #the becoming of noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #the shaw chronicles #marashaw #mara dyer edit #ya edit #book edit #marashawness

[theshawconfessions]

“The villain is the hero of her own story. No one thinks they’re a bad person. Everyone has reasons for doing what they do.”

– The Retribution of Mara Dyer, Page ? / The Reckoning of Noah Shaw, Page 153

#mara dyer #noah shaw #the retribution of mara dyer #the reckoning of noah shaw #michelle hodkin #book quotes #quotes #ya books

[unorganisedbookshelf]

3, 5, and 24 for the end of the year book asks! :)

3. what were your top five books of the year?

these aren’t in order but:

the reckoning of noah shaw by michelle hodkin, greywaren by maggie stiefvater, the doloriad by missouri williams, eileen by ottessa moshfegh and total: stories by rebecca miller!

5. what genre did you read most of?

as seen by my top five, the genres are everywhere but according to my google spreadsheet it’s paranormal…mainly because i reread the noah shaw series 5(?) times this year, and reread older favourites in the genre too

24. did you dnf anything? why?

i’ve had so many dnf’s this year that i stopped keeping track, but some notable ones include:

the hollow places by t kingfisher, godslayers by zoe hana mikuta (absolutely heartbroken by this as book one was 5 stars!), and a cruel and fated light by ashley shuttleworth (i’m planning to restart it because i read it at the worst possible time)

#asks💌 #ask game

[booksandtea12]

Hi just throwing this back into my posts because I love this cover and I’m obsessed with these books and I love the characters and I’m so excited for this release and have I mentioned this cover is gorgeous and I can’t wait to see what happens to Noah and Mara.

That’s all. Bye.

#the last confessions of mara dyer and noah shaw #madness #the ship #otp #mara dyer #noah shaw #noah eliot simon shaw #michelle hodkin #book cover #ya books #the unbecoming of mara dyer #the evolution of mara dyer #the retribution of mara dyer #the becoming of noah shaw #the reckoning of noah shaw #ya paranormal #ya 2020