Her mind is so fragile, so unlike the mind of anyone else. She hasn’t had conversation or interacted with anyone. In Shatter Me, Juliette has been locked up/imprisoned for a long time. As it turns out, I checked the audiobook out of my library through the Overdrive audio system and immediately – immediately – I was hooked. So stressed was I over my confused loyalties that I decided to go back to the very beginning…in audiobook format.
Tahereh Mafi is an even better writer than I could have ever imagined and I’m such a huge fan.īUT…with the amazement at the continuation of her series…with the respect of her work and the excitement over the new books came my very own brand of bookish stress. She made me confused and I didn’t even realize it. She made me question myself and my loyalties. So brilliant and challenging! I loved the way that Tahereh Mafi was able to get inside of my head and mix up my thoughts so easily. I had a good idea that I would connect instantly with Destroy Me and Unravel Me when I recently had the chance to read them. I have not been surprised when a few people have had a difficult time connecting with the writing style – but I have also not been surprised that people have absolutely loved the story and inhaled it in practically no time at all, just as I did – turning the pages faster and faster, desperate to follow the story of Juliette and Adam and Warner from the beginning to the end of the book. I believe wholeheartedly that Shatter Me is best experienced in print on the first read because Juliette’s thoughts are as visual as they are anything else – Mafi’s style is unusual and takes some time to get used to, and certainly the strikethroughs are the biggest part of this. Tahereh Mafi has her very own signature style that needs to FIRST be witnessed visually.
When I read Shatter Me for the first time over a year ago, I thought the book was brilliantly written…because it is. 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.
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