Shatter Me- 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.
The cover is really beautiful. You'd think, why an eye? I mean, that has nothing to do with the fact her touch is fatal. But, as mentioned in the book, Juliette doesn't know her eye colour. She hasn't looked in the mirror for years, and she is afraid to do so. Also, she recognized Adam by his eyes.
Yep guys, love triangle. Aaron Warner, the leader of the Reestablishment, and Adam Kent, the only person who has ever been nice to Juliette. I'd say, by reading the first book, that I'm totally Adam. I did pity Warner, because his parents have never truly loved him. They threw him out like garbage, which I also thought he was.
The good thing about this book was (it has a lot of good things), is that they keep the excitement and action in it. It never gets boring. It has some cheesy love scenes in it, but come on, don't we all love that?
I didn't find out the secrets until the very end. When I was done reading (I read it in 3 days, on vacation), I didn't know if I would throw the book at the wall or hug it, which is a good thing, I think.
I'll give this book 4,5/5 stars, minus all the really cheesy scenes, it'd have been 5 stars.
Extra: There will probably be a film made out of the books, or a tv-show.
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