Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)

by Tahereh Mafi

Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.

Reviewed by Nessa Luna on

4 of 5 stars

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I had heard about this book not long after it has been first released. I went looking for it in several shops, but I couldn’t find it anywhere, so I decided to stop looking. I bought other books and kinda forgot about this one. Until this month, when I took a look at some books on the Book Depository. Shatter Me was among them, and I decided to buy it because the summary sounded really interesting to me.

It was indeed an interesting book, and I liked how some of the sentences in the book were crossed out, like you see on the cover of the book as well. I had hoped for some more explanation for Juliette’s ‘power’, but I think (and hope) we’ll find out more about that in the second (or third) book.

Overall I liked the story, I liked the way it was written, though there was one part that I didn’t like at all, but that’s a bit of a spoiler (but to anyone who’s read the book, I hope you can guess which part I mean, if you’ve read my previous reviews).

There is a novella, called ‘Destroy Me’, and a sequel called Unravel Me. A third book and another novella are both confirmed to come out, but neither of them have titles yet.

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