Shatter Me (Shatter Me#1)

Title: Shatter Me (Shatter Me#1)
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Release Date: November 15th, 2011
Pages: 357
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Synopsis: 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 a choice to make: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.


Review
Maybe I should just put this book down. Read something else. No. It might get better. People on Goodreads say it is good.

But whenever I tried to read it, my thoughts drifted off like butterflies, flying through the warm air of a midsummer evening, beating their wings, while they spiraled higher and higher, out of my reach, until I could no longer touch them and ... I had no idea what I'd just read.



(I like beautiful metaphors and poetic writing styles but in this book it was over the top sometimes. Too much. For me, at least. I'm sure many people enjoy that kind of writing.)

Luckily, it did get better! I really enjoyed the second half of the book. Baaaam, Kenji! He had only said like 2 sentences and I already knew that he would be my new favorite character in this series. Juliette and Adam are so serious; it was refreshing to get an easy-going and funny character into the story.

So yay Kenji!



The ending was unexpected and I am definitely going to read the sequel.