Shatter Me Review

Shatter Me
by Tahereh Mafi
pages- 340

Hey it’s Meagan and today I’m here to review a very hyped book… Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi…

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 –goodreads.com summery

Ok so this book has been sitting on my shelf for probably a year now and I never read it because I just never felt motivated to, but last month it was part of follower’s choice on my instagram, so I finally had a push to get through it, and let me say I don’t regret it. I give this book 85%. While I did enjoy this book I also had my issues with it.

My first main issue was the writing, while it was creative and different; I felt that I often got distracted by it. I would think things like… man Juliette really sounds like Gollum... which I mean is kinda the point, but it was just really distracting.

The other thing that I wasn’t the biggest fan of was the romance. I mean by the end of the book I shipped Adam and Juliette, but I feel like some romance scenes were just there so something would happen. I like it when the romance has a purpose and helps drive the story, but sadly in this case it did neither (for the most part).

Now some things I did like: I liked the action, I liked Adam’s character, and I loved Kenji’s character! Those were some of main, big things that I liked… if you want me to go more into detail and/or a spoilery review please comment below and tell me.

Overall I liked Shatter Me; it was interesting and kept me reading. I recommend this to anyone who likes dystopian novels!

For anyone who has read it… what were your thoughts on Warner? Did you like the romance? Did you enjoy the writing style?

That’s it from me… BYE! 

In Time Review

Hey! It’s Meagan and today I’m reviewing a fairly new novella in Alexandra Bracken’s Darkest Minds series… In Time!

In Time
by Alexandra Bracken
pages: 89

I don’t recommend reading further if you have not read The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken…

Gabe’s life has been devastated in the wake of the economic crash. The only option left for someone like him to escape his tragic past is to leave his small town behind and to attempt to become a skip tracer. This already almost impossible task is made all the more difficult by his first score, a young girl who won’t speak, but who changes his life in ways he could never imagine. –goodreads.com summery

This is a hard book to give a rating to; considering it was only 89 pages, but those were some great 89 pages! It had great characters, a great plot, and my favorite part; it explained what happened to Zu after The Darkest Minds.

Now first… the characters… Zu was just as amazing and just as likable as she was in The Darkest Minds. She was just as smart, helpful, and the little mentions of Liam, Chubs, and Ruby made me want to cry (but in a good way)… then there was Gabe. Gabe was the kinda guy that did whatever it took to get by, and you saw that… but then Zu came along. I loved seeing him slowly realize that he actually cared about Zu and that she wasn’t a monster.

Second, I loved the plot! The plot was simple, and interesting. What keeps you reading is that you already care about Zu and she’s still the Zu you love from The Darkest Minds; so you want to know what is going to happen to her. The book is fast paced because you don’t need to fall in love with Zu… you already love her, so the book can jump into the action. Now a great part of this book, that I feel more dystopian books should do, is give the reader an adult POV. Most books only show you what the kids think/ how they feel about the situation, but In Time is (almost) only from an adult POV. You get to see how much the adults actually know about the children’s situation… this book shows how blind everyone else in the world really is.

Last I love finding out what happened to Zu. After The Darkest Minds I always assumed everything went smooth with Zu, but this book tells the full story of what actually happened… no more assuming… just the brutal, honest truth…

Overall I loved this book! It had lots of great elements that came together to make an amazing, interesting, and suspenseful book! It kept me reading and I loved the throwbacks to The Darkest Minds characters and showing the emotional connection they really had with Zu, and what they taught her. I feel like this book’s job was to get people excited for Never Fade (and to continue Zu’s story) and I think In Time did its job… and more… :)

That’s all from me…

BYE!       

I'm here! :) (Update from Meagan)

Hey guys its Meagan! So sorry I haven’t been on lately; I just don’t get much done in the summer… but now I’m back in school, so I should be posting more! (I get more done during the school year… weird, I know) And to get me posting more I’m gonna try to make a schedule for myself… I’m gonna try to post at least on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays; then we’ll see where I go from there! So I do have some reviews ready for yall that I will get to posting today and next week! Oh and Mom didn’t you finish a book… :) anyway…

That’s all for now…

BYE!!!