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A review by zoya7
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
1.0
No.
I had low expectations, but I had no idea that I would dislike it this much.
It took me two days to finish this book. Not 2.
This is supposed to be a dystopia. It isn't a dystopia in the slightest.
I have no idea how many pages this book is. All I know is that I had to put up with Juliette in way too many pages. And the eye descriptions .
Blue like a blossoming bruise? Um.
Whenever I think of Shatter Me, the first word that comes to my mind is "blue". I doubt anyone will forget that Adam has BLUE EYES, since Juliette needed to remind us that he had blue blue blue eyes every five pages.
The author can take a perfectly good sentence and turn it into...something else.
That.
At first, the strikethroughs really didn't bother me, they DID drive me crazy later on.
I don't know if I'm even going to try and read the next book. I swear, there isn't a single page without strikethrough. Even the synopsis has THREE strikethroughs.
Also the cover is really, really weird. The eyeball is SO blue that it doesn't even look real.
Original rating - 2 stars
CAWPILE rating - 3.87
Rating System -
5 stars - Perfection
4 stars - Brilliant but a little something was missing
3 stars - Decent
2 stars - Mediocre at best
1 star - Terrible
I had low expectations, but I had no idea that I would dislike it this much.
It took me two days to finish this book. Not 2.
This is supposed to be a dystopia. It isn't a dystopia in the slightest.
I have no idea how many pages this book is. All I know is that I had to put up with Juliette in way too many pages. And the eye descriptions .
Dark blue eyes dark brown hair sharp jawline strong lean frame.
blue and bottomless...
I've tried so hard to get those blue blue blue eyes out of my head but I know him I know him I know him.
most unusually blue eyes I've ever seen
...the deep dark blue of the eyes I've learned to swim in.
a pair of eyes a shade of blue in a midnight sky.
2 buckets of rainwater; deep, fresh, clear
bottomless blue
blue blue blue
His eyes are the perfect shade of cobalt, blue like a blossoming bruise, clear and deep and decided.
Blue like a blossoming bruise? Um.
Whenever I think of Shatter Me, the first word that comes to my mind is "blue". I doubt anyone will forget that Adam has BLUE EYES, since Juliette needed to remind us that he had blue blue blue eyes every five pages.
The author can take a perfectly good sentence and turn it into...something else.
"I always wonder about raindrops.
I wonder about how they’re always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end.”
That.
At first, the strikethroughs really didn't bother me, they DID drive me crazy later on.
I don't know if I'm even going to try and read the next book. I swear, there isn't a single page without strikethrough. Even the synopsis has THREE strikethroughs.
Also the cover is really, really weird. The eyeball is SO blue that it doesn't even look real.
Original rating - 2 stars
CAWPILE rating - 3.87
Rating System -
5 stars - Perfection
4 stars - Brilliant but a little something was missing
3 stars - Decent
2 stars - Mediocre at best
1 star - Terrible