Fracture Me (Shatter Me, #2.5) (Shatter Me Novella, #2)

by Tahereh Mafi

[inlibrisveritas]

Tahereh Mafi’s series is one of the few that I follow avidly, and one of the only ones that I actively read the novellas. I really love her writing style and the characters that she has created, however Adam is the one character I don’t care much for…so Fracture Me, while interesting and good, wasn’t really the story I craved.

As the summary says this tidbit of a story is told from Adam’s prospective. It goes over the end portion of Unravel Me and a little bit in between. It’s a setup between books two and three, but I didn’t find it to be all that necessary. Unlike Destroy Me it didn’t make me like the character more, if anything I like him less, and it didn’t really bring too much to the table that I didn’t already know. Adam is the safer side of the love triangle, he’s steady and has a good head on his shoulders…and to me he’s a bit boring. FM delves a bit deeper into his connection with his little brother and even sheds some light on his mental state after the events of Unravel Me. When I read the actual novels I find Juliet to be interesting, unexpectedly strong, naive, and slightly broken, and what I do really love about the novellas is how it shows what she ‘looks’ like to other people. Warner is fascinated and finds some sort of kindred spirit type bond that he’s very reluctant to get rid of. He sees them as being similar, and I like that he doesn’t necessarily want to protect her because he knows she’s capable. But Adam…well he’s POV makes her look tiny, breakable and wild. Part of me really hated the way he looked at her and part of me really understood it.

I did really like seeing just how he’s having to juggle Juliet and his life, and I’m really looking forward to seeing how some of the changes will affect the story in Ignite Me.