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 gift
I'm more than human
My touch is power
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
"I blush."
"He looks at me. Stops."
"I want him to touch me."
The crossing out lines are
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
Wow. Wow. Okay then. I'm going insane because of you and my brain has witnessed more horrible things than it should have.
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