Shatter Me #1.
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Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi is the story of Juliette, a seventeen year old girl who has been imprisoned for a dangerous and powerful ability she cannot control.
When I read the synopsis, I thought this book sounded so good. This could have been an amazing story, but sadly the execution was very bad.
The story unfolds slowly and is narrated in first person by Juliette. The story opens in a room with one window, four walls and 144 square feet. Juliette is left alone, without a human being anywhere near her for about 264 days and the reason? She has been gifted cursed with a touch so lethal that she doesn't trust her own self around any other human entity. Later, Adam is sent into her room and she remembers that she has known him since he was a schoolboy and that she could never forget his blue eyes. She refuses to speak to him and silently scribbles in her notebook when one day, Warner, supposedly the leader of Sector 45 takes her as a prisoner and the series of events that follow changes her life.
This book annoyed me on several different levels.
- Juliette's power is never fully explained in detail. It's skirted around in a mass of overwrought metaphors and complete bullshit.
- Said overwrought metaphors.The over use of metaphors and strikeout tools caused a constant distraction, and the book was just not interesting enough for me to want to struggle through something that annoyed me so much.
- The irritating love triangle among Juliette and two cookie cutter YA Male Love Interests. Good Boy and Bad Boy! Both of them mouth-wateringly HOT! Argh how possibly can the poor heroine choose between them!? Plus I really hate the Bad Boy love interest Warner, he is an abusive fucker with no redeemable quality. And can and don't want to read about him and Juliette getting together in the following books. That's one reason I won't read more of this series.
But the major problem of Shatter Me this, Mafi tries too hard to be clever and poetic and the story gets muddied along the way.
My first reaction when I finished the book was; thank god it’s over. This book was one of the biggest disappointments for me. I think my realatinship with YA dystopians is coming to an end.