Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1) by Taherah Mafi

Shatter Me

Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

 

Cover: 1 star

Plot: 1 star

Rating: 2 stars

Basically, the thing that drew me into this book at first was the cover, and the little striked out sentence at the top that's all like: My touch is lethal. My touch is power.   The synopsis was pretty interesting and quite a few of my friends liked the book on Goodreads, so I decided to check the book out for myself and see how I liked it. 

The Positives:

The Cover:  Don't ask me why, but I was instantly attracted drawn to the cover of the book. I tend to grow a mutual liking for books that have a girl wearing a dress on the cover. (For example: Entwined) Also, the title seemed fitting for the cover.

The Synopsis: Before I started reading the book, I flipped over to the back of the book to see if there were any praise for this book or a short overview, and I saw:

I have a curse

I have a gift

I am a monster

I'm more than human

My touch is lethal

My touch is power

I am their weapon

I will fight back

Before reading reaction:

After reading reaction:

 

The Negatives:

Story/Genre: This book, by all means, is not a freaking dystopian story. It's a romance. And a rather bad one.

Characters: 

Juliette - A completely idiotic whiner that's 'supposed to be a good and strong' protagonist who, in reality, is only driven and motivated by Adam, and she only thinks about touching and kissing and feeling Adam
Adam - Juliette's cute little puppet
Warner - A stupid excuse for a villain. 

Let's face it, Mafi is bad at creating villains. Warner is just a crazed and hopeless lover, which makes him evil since he is opposing to Adam and Juliette, but he's still terribly formed.

Kenji - A 'friend and ally' that I liked until he started telling Juliette that she was sexy and crap.

Writing: Mafi's writing is so horrible so horrible so horribly terrible. She/he lacks writing skills.

"I blush."
"He looks at me. Stops."
"I want him to touch me."

The crossing out lines are so annoying so annoying so annoying so annoying. I liked it at first because it seemed unique and interesting, but then it was just so annoying so annoying so annoying. 


  

There's LITERALLY a string of metaphors and similes in this book that are either 1) Stupid 2) Doesn't make sense or 3) Disgusting

#I imagined these similes and now I want to throw up

"Every organ in my body falls to the ground."
"I am an old, rickety staircase when I wake."
"My jaw is dangling from my shoelace."
"There are 400 cotton balls caught in my windpipe."
"I am blushing through my bones."
"My jaw is in my knees."
"I try not to let my organs spill out."
"I've closed my eyes until I've sewn them shut."
"I feel my stomach drop to my knees."
"Warner thinks Adam is a cardboard cutout of vanilla regurgitations." 


#What are these sentences even supposed to mean?




"Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles. Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into semblance of something too passive to punch."
"I offer him a smile. Try to keep my organs from falling out. Hope the holes in my head aren't showing."
"The sun is revolving around the moon when he responds."  
"The moon knows how it feels to be human." 

 

 Romance: Calm the hell down on the romance, Mafi. Seriously. I thought I was going to be reading an action-packed YA book about a girl with supernatural power when she touches people, and how she's going to fight back against the people who wants to use her as a weapon instead. I genuinely thought that Juliette would be a strong heroine, but she turned out to be a stupid and useless, airheaded piece of crap anyways. Literally, she kept whining and crying and screaming about her life, and it annoyed me so much that her entire life changed when she was reunited with Adam. 

I like romance. I do. Mild romance that isn't too rushed or too quick. I understand that Juliette's had a past with Adam, but the fact that they can just start rushing off and making out directly after Juliette finds out she can touch Adam is plain stupid -__-

Plus, during some of their more 'romantic scenes' I felt a little awkward and I couldn't help but feel flat-out irritated with how Mafi wrote about their relationship and how much weirder and stupid it seems since it's from Juliette's perspective. 
 

""I'm going to memorize every part of your body with my lips.""

#half the time the book is just:

 

It was completely unexpected; not because Mafi was good at hiding the romance, (she isn't) but because of the book description -- which made me believe that this book was dystopian and somewhat like the Hunger Games, but nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. 

Plot: The plot, at first, seemed interesting and unique (I read a few reviews and I saw that people said that Mafi made a lamer version of X-Men First Class) until I realized it was romance. I'll just translate the plot out for you from Juliette's point of view:

"I cry and whine and cry and whine and cry about my life and about how I'm not insane until this beautiful boy named Adam that has eyes that are blue so blue so blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue blue comes along with a tattoo of a 'white bird with streaks of gold like a crown atop its head' that I dreamed of every night and so now he can help me fly."

Wow. Wow. Okay then. I'm going insane because of you and my brain has witnessed more horrible things than it should have.

I BEAT MY HIGH SCORE ON FLAPPY BIRD YEAHHHHHHHHHH

I BEAT MY HIGH SCORE

I BEAT 37

I AM NOW AT 40

YESSSSSSS

I hate this game

WARNING: Do NOT play this game. 

Flappy Bird. We all know that game, right? We all have ragequitted after 5 minutes of playing it, right? We've almost broken our phones trying to beat our high scores, right? 

Wellllllllll, I've never tried Flappy Bird on my phone before because I dun want to download it because I know that I will be addicted to it because of everyone's comments about 'this game ruining your freaking life' 

Instead, I watched my favorite Youtubers play Flappy Bird. Lilly Singh, Pewdiepie, etc. After I watched Pewdiepie play an online version of Flappy Bird, I suddenly felt urged to try the game. 

I got the sudden urge to play the game that has ruined so many lives.
Flappy Bird destroys lives. 

Do not click on that link.
Don't. 

I'M ALREADY GOING CRAZY TRYING TO BEAT MY OWN HIGH SCORE AND IT'S ONLY 37
37

 HALF THE TIME I DIE BEFORE I EVEN GO PAST THE FIRST FREAKING PIPE.1000+ PEOPLE DIED AT THE FIRST PIPE.

FLAPPY BIRD WHY?!?!?!?! WHY YOU DO THIS TO ME?!?!
I DIE EVEN WHEN I DON'T TOUCH THE PIPE
RAGE TO THE F---ING QUIT -_____-
 

DIY Bookmarks!

 Bookmarks

So, I was surfing around Pinterest today on my second Pinterest account and I stumbled upon three different DIY bookmark ideas that seem really cute and cool to make ^.^ 

The first ones are called Ribbon Bookmarks; they don't require much work or materials.

 

Simple enough, right? The steps are pretty easy to follow. Materials are: 

1. Button (any size, color, shape, etc.)
2. 17 inch long piece of ribbon (any color :D)
3. Needle and thread (try to match the thread color with the ribbon)
4. Hair band or elastic band (hair bands are prettier since they come in more varieties of colors and are less rubbery)

 The instructions are listed at this blog called Mish Mashed Mama. Follow the directions listed there and you should have a cute little homemade bookmark ^_^ Who wants to spend money for a bookmark at the bookstore when you can make a cute and petite one by yourself at the cost of nothing? XD The diverse color and pattern options makes the bookmarks seem a little more appealing than those regular ones! Plus, it's pretty easy for you to keep up with this bookmark since you can have it strapped to your book at all times.

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The other type of bookmark I found out about was this incredibly simple bookmark using only a paper clip and a button. 

(can you see it? :c)

It's easy to figure out how to make, right? XD, 'kay, just making sure. (*whispers* Clip the button onto the paper clip)

If you want, you can use ribbons and tie them on the paper clips instead of using buttons. I guess the ribbons would be easier to use, but, either way, they'll still be cute and FREE! :3

 

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Any finally, the last bookmark idea I found was the ones called 'Corner Bookmarks' which you can make by cutting off the corner of a used envelope. You can either make a simple one, or you can design them to be cute, spunky, etc. 

 

These are slightly more complicated, but if you want to make them, there are instructions for them here

And if you want, you can make heart corner bookmarks.

Same steps, except cut a heart out of the corner of the envelope. Design in any way you want.

Anyways, that's all I wanted to share today. If a few of these of these directions weren't as clear to you than I expect, then search up tutorials for any of the bookmarks online (there are numerous videos and websites, believe me, I checked. These are super popular) or just comment below questions! :D I might make the ribbon bookmarks for my friends since mostly all of them love books like I do <3

Alright then! ~Le me, over and out. *salutes comically*

May Reads: Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1)

Starting a new book, and the name is.... Shatter Me! I've heard a lot of good things about this book, but I heard more bad things. Hmm. I recently started yesterday night and I had to go to sleep, but so far I dislike the writing, but I love it when the author strikes out sentences, I hate it when she does that. It's easy to catch on, it was confusing at times. I liked it on the back where it's like:

I have a curse
I have a gift

I'm a monster
I'm more than human

My touch is lethal
My touch is power

I am their weapon
I will fight back

That, I was okay with until I started reading and found out that the main character strikes out sentences, too. It's just annoying >.<

I really hope this is a dystopian story instead of a romance one. But I have a feeling it's romance :/ I can already tell from the first chapter. GAHHHHH :C

Never Fade (The Darkest Minds #2)

So, I just finished Never Fade (The Darkest Minds #2) by the amazing Alexandra Bracken, and as much as I want to say that I loved it like the first book, I can't. For one, the plot in this book was a little confusing and hard to understand at first, but things began to clear up as I neared the ending. Now, I like books that get me thinking until the very end, but there's a clear difference between confusion and mystery. Mah poor babeh  Liam tho <3 and Jude ;c

Yes, the plot is confusing, but I do admit that it was interesting and well, awesome XD The ending was... ugh. CLIFFHANGER >.< I really do hate cliffhangers, especially after the Mark of Athena (which I cried for days about) but at least this one wasn't as heartbreaking or sad. Which is good.

 I can easily feel what Ruby is feeling when she realizes that she's letting her power control her instead of vice versa, which is a pretty good representation of when power gets to your head.

Anywaysssssssss, great book! 3.5 stars :D I look forward to the third book: In the Afterlight, the third book releasing October 28, 2014. Such a long wait away :c

~Le me, over and out ^.^

Welp: My Graduation Dress

Graduation is nearing.
For the ceremony or whatever, the girls have to wear a dress and the boys have to wear nice clothes or crap. That's it. That's final. Everyone has to follow the dress code or they won't graduate. Wow, right? (I was seriously counting on wearing jeans) If you're like me, and you abhor dresses, then you'd feel the same way I feel. I own no dress, okay? -__- And I didn't want to buy one either because I'm not spending money on a dress that I probably will never wear again except for that one day.

Lucky for me, I found a dress. It's white; it reaches a few inches about my knee. There are designs and such on the fabric. And it hurts. IT HURTS I TELL YOU. The back is tight and I started sweating after 2 minutes of wearing it =__= But my mom keeps telling me that 'The dress isn't a dress unless the back and the sides hug your body.' What the hell? >.<

Here it is:

 Now it's just the shoes that a problem :/