A review by samama
Imagine Me by Tahereh Mafi

3.0

I jumped into Imagine Me with a prejudiced mindset of being disappointed, but thankfully it wasn’t the worst. I won’t call it the perfect conclusion to a long, amazing, heart wrenching book series but it was okay.

***Spoiler Alert***
The first half of the book revolved around Juliette screaming her lungs out and Kenji trying to reach her, and then Juliette went into a coma and Warner went mean and silent. So technically both the characters I was rooting for the most in the last book were absolutely silent almost throughout the book, and that frustrated me as Imagine Me was the last book of this long and beautiful story and I wanted to hear more from them.

We got to see a new side of Anderson, the side where he wasn’t a complete asshole, and it was almost nice seeing that. And the twist where Juliette found him ‘beautiful’ after her memories were washed away was hilarious and weird at the same time, especially when we got to see him feel extremely uncomfortable about it.

The final war and the part where Nazeera rescued all the children of the supreme commanders whooshed by too quickly for me to take it all in. I was hoping to get all the details of the grand rescue but upon seeing the little amount of pages left in the book, I knew better than expect that.

However, the last chapter of the book – the chapter of Warner and Juliette’s wedding day, was my most favorite of them all. We got to see that a day didn’t need to be pitch perfect to feel beautiful. Their wedding outfits were ruined, Warner was riotously pissed at Kenji for accidentally doing that, and it was generally a mess, yet everyone sounded so happy, and NORMAL. I loved it. I guess you can say the last chapter was the only star of this show.

And Kenji, oh dear, he’s so hilarious I love him, so much.