![]() She'll have to decide whether to be a weapon of war or a warrior for a cause. The Reestablishment has changed their minds about her and she'll have to decide who to believe, who to trust. What Juliette doesn't know is her world is about to change. She dreams of fresh air, birds that fly, of feeling the touch of another human being, of having a choice. The world where The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things but the animals have all disappeared, the seasons are mixed up and the sky is the wrong color. Since then, she's been locked away her world consisting only of the four concrete walls that separate her from the outside world. The last time she touched another human being, it had deadly consequences. A must read!ġ7 year old Juliette hasn't been touched in 264 days. "Shatter Me" will draw you in with it's poetic prose, hold you in it's grasp with it's heart racing romance and keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page. Put that all together and you have a book that you will be sad to miss. Shatter Me is one awesome debut! There was a wicked awesome plot, a great main character, and one hot love interest. The last chapters unravel a lot of questions that I cannot wait to hear the answers to. Shatter Me ends on a high note of intrigue and a bit of mystery. Tahereh Mafi builds the story until the very last moment. He was such an expertly written character. Warner was such an interesting villain - I wanted to hate him, but I couldn't completely. Adam was such a sensitive, sweet, all around awesome kind of guy. ![]() Juliette was a fabulous main character - I loved the strength she had. ![]() I loved the two of them, and cannot wait to see more of them in Unravel Me. Sparks just fly off the page with the chemistry between Juliette and Adam. There was a lot of short, choppy sentences that I felt took away from the plot. My one complaint would be that the sentence structure in the first chunk of the book was very distracting. Shatter Me is a super fast paced read and has a story that is just intoxicating. The set up with The Reestablishment was just brilliant. She doesn't bother with the tedious world building that I feel like so many dystopians do, which I absolutely loved. Tahereh Mafi throws readers straight into her world. This was not the case at all with Shatter Me, as it was one heck of a read that I didn't want to put down! Full of pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Shatter Me is a fresh and original dystopian novel-with a paranormal twist-that will leave readers anxiously awaiting its sequel.Įveryone has been singing praises for Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi for months now, but I shied away because I find that dystopians generally fall flat for me. In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting as The Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as The X-Men. ![]() Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. ![]() The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. ![]()
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