I love to read…Too much if you ask my parents. Obsessively if you ask my friends. I am so picky about my books, and I will only read certain book genres. One of the genres is Dystopian Thriller and Science Fiction. One year for Christmas and my birthday my uncle gave me a Barnes and Noble gift card and I was watching book recommendations on YouTube and I came across this book called Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi, and I read the summary and I was absolutely intrigued.

Seventeen-year-old Juliette Ferrars has a killing and paralyzing touch and can take a living organism’s energy simply by touch. She can’t touch anyone, and the last time she did, she accidentally killed a small child at age fourteen by simply trying to help him to his feet. The book starts out with Juliette thrown into an asylum by the Reestablishment, and the world is crumbling to pieces. ‘Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.’ The Reestablishment has killed so many people that the people have started to rebel. Maybe Juliette is more than a “tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body”. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now even though people believe she is a danger to society and those around her. Then she gets a cellmate  roommate, Adam. She shows Adam the ropes of the asylum and then one day soldiers bust into the asylum and take Juliette and Adam away. When she arrives to the military base of Sector 45, she meets Warner. The cocky, handsome , dangerous, a cold and unfeeling monster, kind and passionate, a liar and an obsessive madman, the leader of Sector 45. Juliette wants a future with the one boy she thought that she’d lost, not a future of torturing people for Warner.

I thought the book was interesting because the book contains crossed out words  because she doesn’t even know her own thoughts. When I finished Shatter Me, I was #TeamAdam but after I finished Unravel Me (the second book) I am totally #TeamWarner. My favorite character is Warner, and I’m pretty sure that it always will be. I love Juliette’s progression throughout the books, and I love Tahereh’s characters. They may not be entirely relatable sometimes, but they’re lovable. This book will have you crying, loving (literally), and laughing.

“The moon is a loyal companion.
It never leaves. It’s always there, watching, steadfast, knowing us in our light and dark moments, changing forever just as we do. Every day it’s a different version of itself. Sometimes weak and wan, sometimes strong and full of light. The moon understands what it means to be human.
Uncertain. Alone. Cratered by imperfections.” -Shatter Me

I do not own this book trailer. (obviously)