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.
3.5/5 stars. Let me start off by saying that Tahereh's writing style is BEAUTIFUL. Her prose is unique and poetic and I just soaked it up. The problem with it was...there was too much of it!! I've never been so conflicted over a writer's style before! The beautiful prose turned into purple prose for me, and it really drew me out of the story to the point where I rolled my eyes countless times at how overdramatic it sounded. It was really a shame too because I loved her choice of metaphors and similes, she just drowned me in them. I felt the beginning was too slow with Juliette's inner monologue. Once the plot picked up and things actually HAPPENED, I enjoyed the story. But it was rough getting there. And even then, she went back to the purple prose and it was too much for me. I also felt like the worldbuilding could've been much stronger, for I don't feel like I really have a good grasp of what the world looks like and why it came to be a dystopian world. I'm really conflicted because I want to know where the rest of the story goes, but I'm not sure I can handle another 3 books of overdramatic poetic writing.
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