Title: Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
By: Tahereh Mafi
Rating: 3/5
Description: 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.
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.
"I spent my life folded between the pages of books."
Discussion: I love Warner, not the book.
The writing style annoys me. It occurred to me as a flashback on my childhood. Back when I had had had asthma. Back when I I I I I I I I I have difficulty breathing. Yes, all the periods - the chopped sentences - they make me gasp for oxygen.
And then there's the pointless numbers. Another flashback to my childhood - my high school Math subjects. Math subjects everyone dreaded. It wasn't a pretty picture.
However, what made up for it, is Warner... I just want him.
Shatter Me, as a Dystopian Book, brings about the most realistic future. The climate change. The air and water pollution. The animals going extinct. SHATTER ME'S SOCIETY ACTUALLY MADE SENSE. It's more believable to happen. And it might happen sooner than we think. Who knows, maybe it's within my generation's reach. (I hope not.)
Again, however, everything in this book is too predictable. Or maybe because Dystopian Books all meet up on the same pot. There was no climax for me. Shatter Me is as stagnant as a man made lake, and it stink. If it weren't for artificial ornaments and other blings, I wouldn't have finished this book. AND THAT ONE ORNAMENT - SO BEAUTIFUL - IS WARNER IN SHATTER ME.
So thank you Warner, for giving me the right push I needed.
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