Shatter Me

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• gabrie

  Mar 27, 2025

  Easy read, the short chapters help a lot The story is good and I'm excited to discover more

• manel.b

  Apr 13, 2025

  No Aaron? Then NO, I read this because of Warner and he's not mentioned a lot like I expected to. But I'm still gonna finish the series, they say ignite me is the best one soo, I'm currently reading unravel me.

• sanka.rea

  Jun 07, 2025

  Or the real rating is 2.5 stars. I first heard of this book through Goodreads' recommendation. I put it off at first, but then my friend convinced me to read it. Her words were, "This book is mind-blowing, literally. I couldn't stop laughing. You'll definitely end up remembering it." I was first puzzled at what she meant. This book was clearly not categorized as comedy, but once I started reading it, I finally understood what she meant. And she was definitely right. First, though, lets talk about the plot.Except Juliette's was smaller and she wasn't as awesome. Joking aside, the plot is pretty straightforward. There is a girl named Juliette who is locked up in a mental asylum because she has the power to do something with her hands that endangers/kills others. So her parents and society didn't want to deal with her and locked her up. After 264 days of isolation in the mental asylum she gains a new roommate, named Adam. This leads her getting involved with the group known as Reestablishment, run by this guy with daddy (possibly mommy issues as well) named Warner. So Warner wants to use her powers for bad and she just wants to go riding out into the sunset with Adam get away from them. Some pathetic stuff happens and she ends up fulfilling her dream and riding out into the sunset with Adam escaping from Warner and ends up at Charles Xavier's wannabe Castle's place full of people like her. Another thing to note is this book is classified as dystopia, but really I couldn't tell. Of course there is more stuff that happens, but this is pretty much a nutshell of what happens.Now the problem with the overall plot is that there are so much things that are unresolved or just not explained. In the beginning we are presented with Juliette constantly writing in her book which later Adam saves and gives it to her when she is being held "captive". At first it seems like it's a pretty important plot item (as what she is writing will soon be illegal), yet towards the middle and end it's completely disregarded. Another thing that bugged me was Juliette's power. It isn't really explained well. I have no idea what she does except that touching a human seems to cause them pain? And if she touches them too long they die? And it seems like she has multiple powers with being able to break the concrete wall with her bare fists. This "power" is also not explored further. There are three main characters in this story. First is the heroine Juliette. She is okay. She is one of those characters that could just disappear from the book completely and the story might actually be better. She is also sort of a Mary-Sue. Her sole purpose is to make the reader confused with her messed up narrating. Also she has a tendency to get violent in her descriptions and metaphors. She keeps killing herself and others figuratively. She might actually be insane The second main is Adam. He pretty much falls in love with Juliette immediately and elopes with her and tries to protect Juliette from Warner. Unfortunately he is a bland character. The only thing going for him is his ultra super powerful luck. He needs to be immune to Juliette's touch? Bam he is immune. He needs to be immune to radiation? Bam he is immune. He gets shot and needs to be rescued? Bam he gets rescued. His wounds are life threatening? Bam he gets healed by magical powers, The third main is Warner. Warner is the "evil" character. The only problem is that he comes across as a possessive semi-psychotic person who has issues with his parents rather than a true villain. Half the time I couldn't even see him as a bad guy. Also he has horrible leadership skills. I'm shocked that no one has tried to take his seat as commander. Then again this society seems pretty dumb... Of course the minor characters weren't any different. If anything the only other character who was decent was James, Adam's little brother, and even then he had very little appearance time. Kenji had potential to be an awesome character except he was not strong enough to resist the Mary-Sue trap and ended up falling for Juliette.All of the above pale in comparison to the real memorable part of the book, the writing. Throughout the entire book, it felt more like I was reading a rough draft rather than an actual published book. The first thing to note is that there is a lack of proper grammar. I am not an expert on grammar and even I could see some of the horrible grammar. There are times where there is no comma, or punctuation, or anything making it quite difficult to read. She also loved to emphasize a lot, and the randomness things too. It can get a tad bit annoying reading "His lips lips lips." Another thing that might be annoying is the striking out of pretty much everything. It would be quite interesting if it wasn't done every other line. Half the time I can't even tell why it was strikeout. An example of this is when Juliette realizes that Adam was giving her a hint a message. "The bathroom where there are no cameras.The bathroom where there are no cameras. The bathroom where there are no cameras.""Now repeating it once is fine, maybe even twice, but why is it strikeout? Just what is this trying to convey?The authoress also has a has a habit of using metaphors that don't make sense and descriptions that certainly do not fit. Here are a few examples:""You don't have to look away," he says. He says it with a small smile the size of Jupiter." If Adam was a giant then maybe I can see Jupiter. Maybe. But adding "small" with "Jupiter" makes this sentence completely weird."He leans back against the couch. Runs a free hand over his face. Seasons change. Stars explode. Someone is walking on the moon."This had me laughing and completely confused as to what everything after "his face" was trying to show.There are also times where I couldn't tell if she was being figurative or the action that she wrote really happened. Such as:"I’m catapulted across the room by my own fear. I catapult through the concrete walls."The second one actually happened. The first one was her describing her emotion. Confusing isn't it? I first thought the second was her describing another emotion that I couldn't place. It was shocking to find it really "happened." Plus it sounds like she completely body slammed the walls. But at the same time I really don't think that is the case.There are of course many more examples than this. But really I think there should have been a stricter editor in charge or something. Or at least get another editor to make those metaphors and descriptions understandable. Because most of the time those metaphors and descriptions affected the mood. It was a serious moment and I burst out laughing because of what was written. Like when she threw up on dandelions. Where did that even come from!? It really made it hard to take anything in this book seriously. Overall, I'm giving this a 2.5 because the initial plot had potential to turn into something decent. But other than that this book was severely lacking in everything else. (especially an editor). If you liked it that is fine. This book I guess just wasn't right for me.

• lane

  Jun 12, 2025

  It was a very good book. This was also my first ever read, and it's the book that got me into reading, im so grateful for this book and its author!!

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