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A review by naceprettub
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
5.0
There are some books that just linger with you when you read them. For me, Shatter Me was one of those books.
Tahereh's words are like magic. They are poetry and lyrics; wind weaving through the trees, ocean waves smoothing sand. She strings together phrases and sentences that make me sit back and gasp. And think. It's lovely and brilliant what she did with this book. I think I have a pretty decent imagination when it comes to visualizing what I'm reading, but wow, Tahereh just blew me away with his descriptions. I felt like I was right in the middle of the action.
Within the first line of chapter 1 I was curious about this world I was being thrown into. Juliette has such a strong, powerful voice that carries the reader straight into her heart and mind. Accuse of murder, she has been thrown into a cell to count the days one by one. Without having been talked to or touched in over two hundred days one would think she would have lost her mind. But she's strong and alert; a fighter.
When Juliette is told she'll be getting a cellmate her mind goes in all different directions. I could feel her panic at the thought of having someone that close. Because, for her to touch someone physically, it could destroy her, make her more of the murder she sees herself as. Juliette's touch, is deadly, but no one knows why.
I don't want to spoil the entire book, because had I known what happens, what the cellmate was going to be like, I would have gone into the book with different eyes. I will say that I was definitely surprised when her roomie entered the room and something sort of niggled at my mind. As it did Juliette's, because she isn't willing to open up and talk to this new person. Not at all. She does an excellent job of deflecting and protecting herself as she searches her mind for clues about this person.
As things are revealed, as you go deeper into this world that has been so craftily created by Tahereh, you will gasp in anger, feel your heart expand and desperately need more. When I read Shatter Me I didn't realize it wasn't just a stand alone book. To my surprise and great joy, I realized it was only the beginning of great things to come.
If you enjoyed The Hunger Games, which I did, you'll probably love Shatter Me as well.
Tahereh's words are like magic. They are poetry and lyrics; wind weaving through the trees, ocean waves smoothing sand. She strings together phrases and sentences that make me sit back and gasp. And think. It's lovely and brilliant what she did with this book. I think I have a pretty decent imagination when it comes to visualizing what I'm reading, but wow, Tahereh just blew me away with his descriptions. I felt like I was right in the middle of the action.
Within the first line of chapter 1 I was curious about this world I was being thrown into. Juliette has such a strong, powerful voice that carries the reader straight into her heart and mind. Accuse of murder, she has been thrown into a cell to count the days one by one. Without having been talked to or touched in over two hundred days one would think she would have lost her mind. But she's strong and alert; a fighter.
When Juliette is told she'll be getting a cellmate her mind goes in all different directions. I could feel her panic at the thought of having someone that close. Because, for her to touch someone physically, it could destroy her, make her more of the murder she sees herself as. Juliette's touch, is deadly, but no one knows why.
I don't want to spoil the entire book, because had I known what happens, what the cellmate was going to be like, I would have gone into the book with different eyes. I will say that I was definitely surprised when her roomie entered the room and something sort of niggled at my mind. As it did Juliette's, because she isn't willing to open up and talk to this new person. Not at all. She does an excellent job of deflecting and protecting herself as she searches her mind for clues about this person.
As things are revealed, as you go deeper into this world that has been so craftily created by Tahereh, you will gasp in anger, feel your heart expand and desperately need more. When I read Shatter Me I didn't realize it wasn't just a stand alone book. To my surprise and great joy, I realized it was only the beginning of great things to come.
If you enjoyed The Hunger Games, which I did, you'll probably love Shatter Me as well.