Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Synopsis
“No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon. But Juliette has plans of her own. After a lifetime without freedom, she’s finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she’d lost forever.”
Jen’s Review
“You can’t touch me,” I whisper. I’m lying, is what I don’t tell him. He can touch me, is what I’ll never tell him. Please touch me, is what I want to tell him.”
I loved loved loved this book. So much so much so much. You should need must read it!
Okay, sorry, I couldn’t help myself. I guess Tahereh Mafi’s writing style rubbed off on me a bit. It was so different unique strange. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. Actually, I mean it in a very good way. I thoroughly enjoyed Mafi’s fun take on formatting. I wasn’t at all fazed by her lack of commas and periods, repetitious sentences and crossed out words (I’m sure her Word document would beg to differ; I bet the entire thing was underlined in green squiggly lines).
However, Shatter Me wasn’t X-Men. It was too pretty poetic artistic. So many of Mafi’s lines would literally make me sigh out loud. She definitely has a way with words and painting them in a beautiful, imaginative way.
As far as her characters went, I found them to be a likable, complicated and endearing group. The protagonist, Juliette, was a big bag of polar opposites: quiet yet loud, weak yet strong, passive yet aggressive. And Adam, the love interest, was what every girl wants in a boy: gentle, protective and hotttt…Oh yeah, I’m still cooling off, ladies. Adam definitely qualifies for my Book Crush Club. And, if I’m being honest, Warren–the antagonist of this dystopian tale–might too. I know it’s weird and wrong, but his bad boy psycho complex personality was too interesting to dismiss.
I only have one complaint about this entire book: Adam’s eyes. Did you know they’re blue? No? Well, you will after Mafi tells you about them a hundred times. “Adam stares at me so long I begin to blush. He tips my chin up so I meet his eyes. Blue blue blue boring into me.”
Blue blue blue…
Despite the countless ooey-gooey descriptions of Adam’s blue blue blue eyes, I adored Shatter Me. And I highly recommend it. I do I do I do. So go go go to the bookstore and buy it. Now now now.
Okay, I’m done.
Jen’s Rating
Related Articles
Review: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Jen's Pen Den 
Great review! I enjoyed reading Shatter Me and gushing over how unbe-freaking-lievably hot Adam is (even though his eyes are blue? Did you know that they are blue?)
Mafi’s writing style didn’t really distract me too much, but there were some points later in the book where I stopped and was like “What the heck did I just read?” and had to re-read a section/paragraph.
Thank you so much for linking to my review of Shatter Me, I greatly appreciate it!
LikeLike
Thank you!
LikeLike
Thanks so much for linking to me! Much appreciated 🙂
LikeLike
Great review! Sounds like an interesting read at any rate, if a bit ‘different’ in style lol. 😉
LikeLike
Yeah, it took a few pages to get into the rhythm of it, but I personally loved the way she wrote. As a writer myself, it’s help me think more outside the box 🙂 Let me know what you think after you read it!
LikeLike