Shatter Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Series: Shatter Me
Reviewer: Marlou
Content Warnings
Violence, anxiety, depression
Summary
I have a curse
I have a gift
I am a monster
I’m more than human
My touch is lethal
My touch is power
I am their weapon
I will fight back
Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
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Review
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
This review is about all Shatter Me books and novellas.
Shatter Me
What a book. You feel for Juliette from page one. You also know that she has major issues. Warner is a total ass that you can’t help but love. Adam is relatively harmless and kinda cute AND HE CAN TOUCH HER WHOA. No one has been able to touch poor J in a very long time and I’m not a person that likes hugging but at least I’m still capable of doing it, I can’t imagine what it’s like not to be able to touch people because you’ll hurt them. I love Mafi’s writing and the pace she sets in the book is perfect. This book deserves a solid 4/5 stars.
Destroy Me
Set after Shatter Me and before its forthcoming sequel, Unravel Me, Destroy Me is a novella told from the perspective of Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45.
CAN I HAVE MORE FROM WARNER’S POV PRETTY PLEASE.
I loved being in Warner’s head, boy oh boy that smol bean has issues. His relationship with his dad is awful, he had to do things as a kid that he did not want to do, but had to or he’d be called weak. Can you hear my heart breaking for my boy? Gosh, I just want to wrap him in a blanket and protect him from anything Mafi still has planned for him. 4/5 stars for this ruthless boy.
Unravel Me
WARNER CAN TOUCH JULIETTE I REPEAT WARNER CAN TOUCH JULIETTE. I know I had to frantically fan myself at the end of Shatter Me when I found that out. I can only imagine how shaken Juliette must have been. Her enemy can touch her. There are two people in the whole world that can touch her and she hates one of them. Juliette dumped Adam YAY. Adam is such an ass in this book, it’s surprising Juliette didn’t break anything besides her heart. Can I just mention that I didn’t trust Omega Point at all… I thought they were sketchy, turned out they really are the good guys. The ending of this book was pure hell. I nearly threw my book across the room. Read to find out I guess 🙂 Also, this book gets 4/5 stars just like the rest.
Fracture Me
Still have to read this novella.
Ignite Me
Everyone is dead. The end. HAHA if only. Everyone is super screwed, and several people did die in the fight at the end of Unravel Me…
Ignite Me was a very interesting read. In this book Juliette starts to change from a caged, lethal bird to a badass that takes no shit. This book also has a lot more serious romance parts in it and I didn’t think I’d like it, but it turned out I did. Mafi writes such tasteful romance that I wanted more. In all the books, I was screaming that Warner and Juliette should kiss already and, finally, they did! And Warner has some pretty cool tattoos, one of which is the books title AAAAH. This book gets 4/5 stars and many, many heart eyes.
Restore Me
Yeah, I needed some serious restoring after this book. Holy moly. I now know why this series is called “shatter me,” because this book shattered me into a thousand pieces. It’s been a year since I’ve read this and still all I feel like typing is “asdfghjkl” and I can’t really elaborat. I can barely even talk about this book without spoiling everything so I’ll just tell you that this book is awesome. Juliette is a freaking badass and scares me a little. And where is that blanket for Warner to roll him up in and protect him from Mafi? Did Kenji steal it? Probably… 4/5 stars for this one. It’s only not 5 stars because the dystopian part of the book makes it a little less my cup of tea, also I can’t deal with Adam, he should die already (sorry not sorry).
Shadow Me
Fan favorite character Kenji Kishimoto narrates this gripping companion novella to Tahereh Mafi’s New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series, set during the explosive events in Restore Me!
I am so disappointed by this novella. This felt like I was reading Mafi’s notes on what Kenji was doing during certain key points in Restore Me and even then it doesn’t even feel like he was discussing the key points. The story was also still focused on Warner and Juliette and I really hoped that wouldn’t happen. Kenji is a freaking sweetheart and I loved reading about him but there could have been so much more or Mafi could have written multiple scenes we wouldn’t have seen from Juliette and Warner’s perspective. The book didn’t feel done when I reached the last page and not in the ‘Oh plot twist or open ending yay fun’ kind of way. Kenji gets 3 stars because it’s still Kenji and I can’t bear to give him any lower than that.
Defy Me
Defy Me releases April 2nd, 2019. Here’s the synopsis:
The gripping fifth installment in the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shatter Me series. Will Juliette’s broken heart make her vulnerable to the strengthening darkness within her?
Juliette’s short tenure as the supreme commander of North America has been an utter disaster. When the children of the other world leaders show up on her doorstep, she wants nothing more than to turn to Warner for support and guidance. But he shatters her heart when he reveals that he’s been keeping secrets about her family and her identity from her—secrets that change everything.
Juliette is devastated, and the darkness that’s always dwelled within her threatens to consume her. An explosive encounter with unexpected visitors might be enough to push her over the edge.
I cannot freaking wait to read this book!
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