Tahereh MafiYoung Adult · Romance·b. 1988
Shatter Me
Synopsis
Seventeen-year-old Juliette has a lethal touch: skin-to-skin contact with another person causes them agonizing pain, and she has not touched anyone in 264 days. Branded a freak and consumed by guilt over an accident that killed a child, she has been locked away in an isolation cell of an asylum, recording her fractured thoughts in a journal.
The world outside has collapsed under the rule of the Reestablishment, a regime promising order in a dying society while crushing freedom. Juliette's solitude breaks when a new cellmate arrives, Adam, a boy she recognizes from childhood.
When soldiers come for her, she is delivered to Warner, a young, magnetic, and ruthless military commander who wants to weaponize her deadly ability for the regime. Forced to choose between becoming a tool of oppression and risking everything to escape, Juliette begins to discover she may not be as powerless or as alone as she believed.
Told in an intensely interior, lyrical voice that uses crossed-out lines and repetition to render the narrator's unstable mind, the novel opens a dystopian saga about power, control, and self-worth. As alliances form and Juliette's understanding of her gift shifts, she edges toward the possibility that what she has feared as a curse might instead be a source of strength.
- This book pissed me off to no end, there was no chemistry between the characters and everything moved so fast. The writing style was not for me and I guess must be an acquired taste considering how popular this series seems to be. Let's not even get into how it progresses - I did not continue this series and when I found out what happens and who the main character ends up with any desire to continue fluttered out of my body - or should i say shattered.... This book would probably be better suited for a teen audience.
- Reread No.1: 2020🌟 "In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."
- <div>At the beginning I was a little bit unsure but then I loved it! <br>But the end? I would have liked <spoiler>if there would have been a cliffhanger or anything like that</spoiler></div>
- I really liked it. Diving into a new universe was exactly what I needed, since I was this
- 3.5/5