Shatter Me

Shatter Me is about a 17-year-old girl named Juliette Ferrars, whose touch is lethal, who was imprisoned by the Reestablishment due to an accidental murder. The Reestablishment is basically this story's modern government or organization that aims to fix planet Earth. Pollution is at all time high, hunger and scarcity is very common, animals are either endangered or at a point of extinction, and epidemias are all over the country. Juliette has been imprisoned for months and hasn't touched anyone in 264 days. Everything changes when a boy, Adam Kent, was put into the same cell as hers. He isn't what everyone expects him to be and served as a warrior for Juliette's safety.

I was very attached to the story because; Tahereh's writing style and the words with strike-troughs, which depicts Juliette's second thoughts, isn't what we usually see on today's novels. Juliette's POVs are well-written and sends you to a stream of consciousness and roller coaster of emotions. As the story progresses, Juliette becomes less vulnerable and develops her own strengths. It reminds me very much of the mutants in X-Men.

On the negative side though, I feel like it doesn't really distinguish itself compared to other widely-known Dystopian novels (i.e. The Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.). Their “world” feels very hollow and “almost” did not play a vital role in the story. I was still left with a lot of queries and confusions that were remained unanswered. The ending was highly flawed and left it without resolving anything. I really hope I could get all of my answers in the sequel otherwise.

In conclusion, Shatter Me remained to be really interesting and I was very fast-paced. It introduces new concepts in the Dystopian genre. I highly recommend it to people who have a thing on superhumans, science fiction and paranormal romance.