Book Review: Shatter Me (Tahereh Mafi)


Title:Shatter Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
# of pages: 338
Published 2011 by HarperCollins

        When I first started reading this book I wasn't so sure if I was going to like it but, as I continued reading it I just can't seem to put the book down. I think that the author, Tahereh Mafi, wrote the book so passionately that my imagination has driven me crazy. I was so emotionally connected to the book that I've been so emotional all throughout the story. 
        
        The narrator Juliette, the shy, innocent and quiet girl with the power to kill you with a single touch. She was a rejected child ever since the time her parents couldn't touch their own child anymore. They thought that she was a monster. Her mother even placed her hand in a pot with boiling water to check if her daughter was human. Then, there was a day when the police officers went to their house to inform her parents that their daughter is going to be locked up in an asylum due to the accident that happened. After those events, all she had was her small journal wherein she wrote every single thing that she felt and here comes her cellmate, Adam Kent, the first man who could touch her without getting hurt and Warner, the good-looking evil man, the head of sector 45. And never forget the charming, Kenji Kishimoto. This is just a glimpse of what the book is all about but there's more from what you've read here! Shatter Me is a really astonishing book.

       This story will really make you feel what Juliette feels like a roller coaster that goes up and down, and oh boy have fun coping with her feelings. Don't take what I said as a negative thing but I have to say, Juliette is one of the most touchiest characters in the book. The twists in this book will make you read the second book, Unravel Me. Don't be too surprised when Juliette starts unraveling her true self. Lastly, I have to say you'll be really intrigued to read the second book and surely I guarantee for I had no regrets in reading this book therefore, I recommend that you should read this book!

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