Especially if you are the sort that loves soft squishy romantic boys and forbidden love.

However! I do think this would appeal to all sorts of other readers. Juliet’s history was interesting but the pacing was just gosh darn slow… if this hadn’t been a fairly short audiobook, I don’t think I would have kept listening out of sheer impatience. I wanted to know more about the political intrigue and the mutations than I did about Adam’s rippling chest muscles. Like I said above – I’m not a romance reader. I’m glad I read it, but I wouldn’t buy it.Īs much as I appreciate Mafi’s writing style, the story really didn’t appeal to me. I love writing that sounds like an exotic garden, but that may not be everyone’s cup of tea. I did appreciate the lyricism of this books and thought it bears mentioning. I will admit that by about chapter 30 this became a little exhausting? It was less flowery once Juliet rejoined the world, which was a good choice as we pulled more out of her head and into her environment. Shatter Me is littered with similes and metaphors that will make your wordsmithing heart melt. Tahereh Mafi’s writing is gorgeous.įor the first few chapters of this book, I was absolutely blown away by the gorgeousness of the author’s writing. And if you want something sappy and sweet, then you’ll love this. Mafi adds some originality to her story by using its setting and Juliet’s affliction and contributing aspects… but at the end it’s still a boy-meets-girl type of tale. I feel like there’s only a few ways to do them and that they’re grossly overdone. Everything she is and everything she has done is known to him. It feels like insta-love, but we learn that Juliet and Adam have a history.

This is a book about mutants and military dystopias in a post-apocalyptic world, but all that is really just setting for Adam and Juliet’s love story. Juliet was bound to get a tragic love story with a name like that. If you’re looking for a love story, you’ll love this book. But she just can’t do that, and Adam won’t allow it either…. He is not afraid of her… perhaps only because he doesn’t know how dangerous she is? But with Adam come a barrage of changes and soon Juliet is scooped up by a madman in the military who wants to use her as a weapon. He is dragged into her cell and awakens life into her. She is locked away for the safety of the people who surrounded her – unwanted my her parents, there is no where for her to go but the asylum. Her heart is broken by her past, by the things she has done that were beyond her power. Juliet knows nothing but hatred and isolation.Īnd yet, she is a sweet kind soul. 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. Genre: Dystopia, Romance, Science Fiction Publisher: HarperTeen on November 15, 2011 Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi Series: Shatter Me #1

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