Shatter Me Book Review

 Title: Shatter Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Series: Shatter Me #1
Rating: 5/5 Stars
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“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”

So I was going to shorten that quote, I swear, but I just couldn't. That is probably the most perfect, relatable quote that I have ever read. So your welcome. Saying that, I was scared going into this book. Really scared. I have heard so much good and bad about it and I was scared that I was just falling into a hype, but I wasn't. Shatter Me heard such a unique writing style that I think that it will be either a hit or a miss with people. But it was a huge hit with me.

I loved and felt for most of the characters. I thought that the writing style was perfect and beautiful. I literally couldn't put it down, it was just so gripping and unforgetable. It was really great seeing the main character, Juliette, come into herself and become brave. I loved the romance. I just have so much praise for this book.

Shatter Me is about a girl named Juliette who has a fatal touch. She doesn't have any clue why or how. Then she almost kills someone, by accident, and The Reestablishment (basically their government) locked her up in an asylum for murder. Her parents hate her, she has never had any friends, and her life just sucks until Adam comes along.

Juliette is in her dark cell when she meets her new roommate, Adam. She knows Adam from somewhere, but she doesn't know where. Adam is instantly nice and charming. She constantly fights the urge to touch him and they go crazy together. Then Warner takes Juliette and Adam to a government building and she discovers that they want to use her as a weapon.

This book just branded itself into my brain and wouldn't let go. I just bought the next book and I am so excited to start it.