Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1)by Taherah Mafi
338 pages
Published November 15th 2011
by Harper/HarperCollins
Summary:
Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.
Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.
Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.
Thoughts:
What can I say that has not been said already? So many rave reviews and gushing stories that I just have to go out and read it. Ironically, I actually read this weeks ago and was in a reviewing slump.
Apparently, I'm not all that fascinated by the story. I know.. a shocker right?
Dislikes
The pace of the story. The beginning is a bit slow. I think the action only picked up on page 83 when Juliette decides to rebel against the scary Warner. I think he's psychotic. A cute psycho but still a psycho.
Likes
What can I say that has not been said already? So many rave reviews and gushing stories that I just have to go out and read it. Ironically, I actually read this weeks ago and was in a reviewing slump.
Apparently, I'm not all that fascinated by the story. I know.. a shocker right?
Dislikes
The pace of the story. The beginning is a bit slow. I think the action only picked up on page 83 when Juliette decides to rebel against the scary Warner. I think he's psychotic. A cute psycho but still a psycho.
Likes
The romance between Juliette and Adam is sweet but way too predictable. I love how they both fell in love with each other even when they were little kids and kept that feeling a secret all this time.
This is kind of hard for me to say. I was actually expecting something along the lines of Divergent or Hunger Games but got a lot of kissing and hugging instead. The romance actually dominated the book and the action parts are very few. Maybe the next book will be much better. After all, now that we actually know what kind of super hero Juliette is maybe we get to find out Adam or Warner's powers. Well if they do have one.
Verdict: 3 stars.
Verdict: 3 stars.
