The point is: I had a very strong, negative reaction to the writing and that definitely coloured my overall reaction to the book. I gasp so loud I’ve swallowed the entire room in one breathĪnd so on and so froth. (this is a quote from a mere conversation Juliette is having and not say, a quote from a fight scene or a torture scene) Hundreds of thousands of seconds pass and I can’t stop dying I catch the rose petals as they fall from my cheeks, as they float around the frame of my body, as they cover me in something that feels like the absence of courage I’m wearing dead cotton on my limbs and a blush of roses on my face And in many cases, the metaphors didn’t even make sense. Words can be very powerful and I feel this was the idea behind the prose but there is a difference between power and force – the writing to me, proved to be forceful instead of potent.Īt first, the use of strike-through and metaphors seem natural as a reflection of Juliette’s unstable state of mind and although the usage of strike-through words diminished as the story progressed ( as a clear result of the change in Juliette’s mental health), the metaphors kept going strong. To others like me, it will come across as excessive and irritating. For some, this will be unique and beautiful.
Tahereh Mafi’s writing is very descriptive, relying a lot on metaphors and imagery and the strike-through tool. Shatter Me is out tomorrow and I believe reactions to this book will be extremely polarised and the main reason for this will be the prose.
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The problem is: more than to lock her away for good, the Reestablishment might have other ideas on how to use Juliette as a weapon of torture. Her keepers are The Reestablishment, the ones who are in control of this brave new world, in charge of saving humanity from the brink of starvation and death. Her touch is lethal and a few years ago, she murdered someone by accident and she has been a prisoner ever since. It is the near future, the world has collapsed Juliette has been in solitary confinement at a mental asylum for 264 days. That and the raving reviews this book has garnered for the past few months all over the blogsphere, some of them by trusted reviewers. Although I am not really a huge fan of dystopians (at least not of this recent YA batch, I haven’t been particularly lucky with my choices), I am a huge fan of X-men and this connection was enough to make me pick it up. Shatter Me is Tahereh Mafi ‘s debut, a dystopian YA novel, marketed as a mixture of Hunger Games and X-Men. Why did we read this book: A novel that promised to be the child of Hunger Games and X-Men and which got raving reviews everywhere since BEA? Yes, please. How did we get this book: Review copies from the publisher at BEA Stand alone or series: First in the Shatter Me trilogy.
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Full of pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Shatter Me is a fresh and original dystopian novel-with a paranormal twist-that will leave readers anxiously awaiting its sequel. In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting as The Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as The X-Men. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body.
Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war– and The Reestablishment has changed its mind.
The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal.
The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days. Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopia, PNR, Young Adult
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