I understand the addictiveness of Shatter Me, but this was so overrated. Here is where the plot picks up and dives itself into dystopia. Mainly because what’s set up there is what I was expecting to have happened much closer to the beginning of the novel. I was actually very disappointed because I really wanted to see what everyone was swooning about but I didn’t see it.

As a villain, he is brilliant but whatever romantic connection he has with Juliette is just lost on me. He works as a creepy villain, he works as this incredibly evil guy, but the second he becomes the love interest, I was angry. They both think they’re so entitled to Juliette and I was so almost just skipping the pages (and nearly the entire book) when they both spoke. I hate that we’re supposed to ship Juliette with both when I just didn’t like any of them. I had so many issues with Adam and Warner. It felt like the story forgets it’s in a dystopian setting where the world is falling apart and then picks itself up every now and then. This is very much a romance novel with a hint of dystopia. But I follow Tahereh Mafi on social media, and I really enjoy her personality so I kind of held onto this series, hoping I would somewhat enjoy these books. If hadn’t borrowed the entire series from the library already, I would’ve dropped the set the second I finished the last page. Shatter Me is the worst book of the series. 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. 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. This is less a review, but more of my own rambling of thoughts on each book. I should warn that this post is spoiler heavy and if you haven’t read it yet and want to read it without spoilers, ignore this. But I decided that it was going to work much better as one big post about the series. I was initially going to write separate reviews for each book in the Shatter Me series.

So, apologies if it all sounds a little familiar.

Much of this post is copied from my previous series review of Shatter Me from 2018, but before the release of Defy Me and Imagine Me, so I chucked in my thoughts on the final two at the end of the older series review.

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