Initial Impressions 1/17/16: 4 - 4.25 stars 
 WELL this book certain amped up the mind games quite a bit! Of course you always want to believe the protagonist (Mara) but it's a case of, is this really an unreliable narrator or is she actually experiencing the truth and no one believes her? It was so much fun to really play around with those ideas and never quite know what was going on! 
 Things started to get absolutely bananas towards the end and I was literally shivering and shouting and afraid of things that go bump in the night because I was getting so freaked out (in a good way). 
 I was actually a little bit disappointed by the ending, though. I'm not sure if I had hoped for more mystery but there are some answers to whether we trust Mara or throw her into the loony bin and I wasn't a huge fan of how the answers played out. I think it felt a bit strange, maybe a bit too hard to believe? Which is saying a lot considering what we've learned about what Mara can do and I've fully accepted that! 
 I also was a bit disappointed that more questions got added and there are STILL things I have no answers for. I always hope that book two answers some to most of the questions set up in book one and I'm still wondering what the hell is going on with some of these things. OH WELL guess I just have to binge and finish off the series to get those conclusions!!! 
 Full review originally posted on The Book Addict's Guide 2/8/16: WELL, EVOLUTION certain amped up the mind games quite a bit! Of course you always want to believe the protagonist (Mara) but it's a case of, is this really an unreliable narrator or is she actually experiencing the truth and no one believes her? It was so much fun to really play around with those ideas and never quite know what was going on! Things started to get absolutely bananas towards the end and I was literally shivering and shouting and afraid of things that go bump in the night because I was getting so freaked out (in a good way). 
 I really felt like things picked up throughout EVOLUTION and carried on with a steady pace. The reader finds out a lot more of what is happening to Mara and a little bit more as to why. This was definitely my favorite book of the series but things got super twisty and I was totally riveted from about the middle of the book until the end! 
 I was actually a little bit disappointed by the ending, though. I'm not sure if I had hoped for more mystery? There are some answers to whether we trust Mara or throw her into the loony bin and I wasn't a huge fan of how the answers played out. I think it felt a bit strange, maybe a bit too hard to believe? Which is saying a lot considering what we've learned about what Mara can do and I've fully accepted that! 
 I also was a bit disappointed that more questions got added and there were STILL things I had no answers for. I always hope that book two answers some to most of the questions set up in book one and I was left wondering what the hell is going on with some of these things.