Ignite, my love. Ignite"
I am always a little sad when a series ends. I know I will miss the characters and their world, but I can say with surety, that I am very satisfied with he ending to the Shatter Me series.
"Juliette, love," he says to me, still holding my eyes. "You have just started a war."
Mafi did such a great job completing Juliette's metamorphosis. In book 1, she was this shattered creature on the brink of insanity, she was trying to find her way in understanding and harnessing her power in book 2, and now, she is fully realized. Juliette makes a choice to accept her power, to stand tall in the face of danger, and be the leader she never realized she was.
He's unraveling before me, becoming something entirely different.
I really appreciated that Mafi allowed Juliette to be sort of on her own, and that she struggled with knowing herself before she resolved the love triangle.
I want a pocketful of punctuation marks to end the thoughts he's forced into my head.
I am, at heart, a true romance reader, so I devoured all the romantic bits. The passion was strong here, but sometimes I felt that Mafi was trying too hard to justify Juliette's romantic choices. As with all great triangles, this one had readers choosing sides, and maybe she felt like she owed it to them.
Twice. Once for Adam. Once for Warner.
I want you to make a list of all your favorite things, and I want to be on it.
I have no reservations about the way this series ended, and I am always pleased when I can end a series without regrets. Once again, Mafi gave us action, drama, romance, but for me, it's more about the characters. The characters changed and grew to be different, better, and I am a sucker for that.
"Everything looks so different to me now," he says. "It feels different. It tastes different. You brought me back to life."