![]() It had all the classic hallmarks of a YA dud and it somehow became a book I couldn’t get enough of! What is the witchcraft?!While I was reading this book, I never would have expected to give Shatter Me a rating above three stars. I have to say the experience was a real shock for me. I had fun, girls! Can’t wait to read more with you guys!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥Shatter Me is a book that has been on my TBR list for years, so I was excited-and terrified-to finally give it a shot. I buddy read Shatter Me with Seann and Anna of YA Buddy Readers’ Corner ♥. And while I felt like the first half of the book was more character driven (which I liked a lot!), I LOVED the action-packed second half of the novel.If you loved The Hunger Games, you're going to gobble this one up! Read more I finished it in one sitting and found myself begging for the more at the end. It can change the way you see yourself and the way you see the world.Tahereh Mafi's debut novel blew me away. It's about finding love and how that love can make anything possible. And how you can overcome that feeling and find acceptance within yourself. It's about what it's like to be considered "different" in society. But she has plans of her own.This book is about so much more than a girl who has supernatural powers. Until one day, she's released - under the condition that she be used as a weapon. Juliette is a girl a girl who can't be touched by another human being without inflicting pain on them. What is it like to feel different? weird? UNIQUE. I can’t wait for the next book! Read more Adam is the perfect romantic lead and I really liked the relationship he and Juliette have. Juliette’s fear, mistrust and mental anguish are perfectly balanced with her need to be loved and understood. I loved the mix of dystopia, romance and paranormal elements, and I loved the characters. Mafi gives Juliette a very distinct voice which makes the novel even more captivating. The prose is lyrical and hypnotizing, though the similes and metaphors tend to run wild at times. She will fight back, and in the process she will learn her powers are much stronger than she realized.I tore through this book in a day. They want to use her as a weapon to aid them in ridding the world of anyone who fights back against them. The more time she spends with Adam, the more she trusts him, and eventually she realizes how she knows him, but does he remember her?When Juliette and Adam are forcefully taken from their cell, Juliette learns that the Reestablishment has plans for her. Her mind isn’t the same since they put her away. They plan to do away with everything from the world before – essentially wiping out history – starting fresh, creating a new language and a new way of living.When Adam is locked up with Juliette, he looks familiar to her for some reason, but she can’t quite remember why. The Reestablishment regime has taken over, planning to rebuild the world. Food is limited, animals are almost extinct, people are starving and birds can no longer be seen flying in the sky. Juliette thought life outside the prison cell was bad enough. Because of this, her parents hated her, people feared her and kids at school picked on her. Her touch is lethal, painfully draining the life from anyone she touches. Juliette has spent the last 264 days locked in a cell for accidentally killing a young boy. ![]() Hoping the rest of the series is as good and does not go downhill like the Hunger Games though. ![]() The ending reminded a lot of The Hunger Games. I did not have a hard time understanding the world. I actually liked that it was not complicated or something that half the book described. I think the narrator for the audiobook brought the character and emotion to life, and I enjoyed her.I know others had issues with the lack of the development within the world. I ended up loving it on audio, and recommend giving it a try if you have been wanting to read this. I started reading this in physical copy and then switched to audio to help get through the middle. The author did that very often.I ran through the first few chapters, then did not feel like picking it back up as it slowed down. I also do not love when words are reported over and over again in a sentence. I did not think it brought anything to the story, and I could have gone without these parts. I know Juliette is carrying a journal, but the story is not written from the POV of the journal. This did not come off as a journal, so to me it did not make sense. However I was not a huge fan of the writing style or the scratch off sections. I was wrong! I am not normally a fan of Science Fiction and Dystopian, but I ended up enjoying the plot on this one.I was intrigued with the story right away, especially with Juliette being imprisoned. ![]() I had been putting starting this series as I thought I was going to hate it.
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