Imagine Me
2020 • 449 pages

Ratings97

Average rating3.7

15

Ok, so for the sake of disclosure, the four stars have to do more with loyalty and my love for Warner/Aaron than for the book itself. Truth be told, the sixth installment of a series is a hard job, and for anybody who isn't JK Rowling, the chances of disappointment and repetition are really big. Here, there was a fair attempt at novelty, with more mutants and power and the connection between the sisters resembling Minority report and the tanks. But I don't know about you - all I cared about was Aaron and Ella/Juliette.
About that: the four stars are entirely for them and this pure love that swept me off my feet back when I found them. Also, I could have had a lot more of that. There were other points of view, and too much action/war scenes, and I kept reading and thinking, ok, I get it, chaos and mayhem - where are my love birds?
That said, it's Tahereh Mafi's fault for writing this relationship so profoundly well that Romeo and Juliet owe them nothing - and her writing is really good, with the right amount of humor, narrative and descriptions without boredom.

December 25, 2021