Book Review: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi


I'm a super-intense booknerd and I'm always hunting for a great new read. I came across Shatter Me on Indigo's website and was naturally intrigued. I mean, come on! Look at that amazing cover art!

Shatter Me is set in a post apocalyptic America. Food doesn't grow. Birds don't fly. Air is barely breathable. Weather is an unpredictable weapon. And The Reestablishment controls everything. The main protagonist is 17 year old named Juliette, a girl who's been locked up and bounced around from prison to hospital to asylum for most of her life. A girl who's legally insane. A girl who's feared and hated. A girl capable of killing with her touch. But Juliette longs for freedom. So when The Reestablishment recruits her to use as their weapon, she has her own plans. She won't be anyone's weapon.

Okay, so the book starts off somewhat lacking and slow. She's afraid of absolutely everything. Things begin to pick up when she's transferred into the custody of The Reestablishment though. We discover that she does have a backbone. If you can make it through the first few chapters, I promise it does get better! I don't want to spoil anything, but we do discover her inner badassness (is that even a word?). By the end of the book, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the next one!

There are 2 other books in this series; Unravel Me (#2) and Ignite Me (#3). And if that wasn't enough, there are also two novellas, Destroy Me and Fracture Me. I encourage you to read them all!!

Overall rating: 6.5/10

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