Hopefully the next two books address some of the plot and world building issues that I had.It’s been all building to this moment…our Summer of Shatter Me binge-read is complete! We just finished the fourth book, Restore Me, and OMG YOU GUYS. It made me want to keep reading and I’ll definitely be picking up the rest of the trilogy.
It was easy to read and I sped through the book in two sittings. Having said that, I enjoyed the writing style. I had a rough idea of who they were and what they did but I thought the world building in this respect was weak. I thought the book lacked description and I didn’t think The Reestablishment was very well conceptualised. What I was a little bit underwhelmed by was The Reestablishment itself. It was interesting to read about how the weather and ecosystems are failing due to human activities, and how the people live with barely any food and are concentrated in small communities that are governed by soldiers and The Reestablishment. The novel has an apocalyptic setting that I found really interesting. Overall, none of the characters really did it for me. Warner was an intriguing character to me but I also felt like he was a bit of a creep. I felt like the romance developed slightly too quickly and it was just a bit uncomfortable for me to read. Even though Adam seems like a great guy, I never really warmed to him and was always suspicious of him. But I wasn’t a fan of the romance in this book, nor the developing love triangle. What this book does focus on are the relationships between the characters and the romance. The plot doesn’t really progress and by the end of the book I felt like I was still kind of at the beginning. Juliette spends most of the book either locked up in different locations like a prisoner or on the run from different people who are after her.
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But even though the novel had a really great concept, I don’t think it was executed to its full potential. She’s been imprisoned for over 250 days in a dark cell but one day she’s brought out of her cell in order to aid The Reestablishment in their mission… something which Juliette doesn’t want to do. This book follows Juliette, a girl who has a fatal touch. I couldn’t even tell you what happened because I feel like nothing did. The story for me didn’t begin until 30 pages from the end of the book and I felt like the first 300 pages were just 300 pages of nothing. My main issue with Shatter Me is that I felt like there was no plot. But after reading this first installment, I’m feeling a little bit let down. I’ve been looking forward to reading it because I’m probably the only person at this point who hasn’t picked up this trilogy… and the male love interests sounded really interesting. I’m not really sure what to say about Shatter Me. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares.
No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. Release date: Octo(originally November 2011)
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