Title: Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1)

Author: Tahereh Mafi

Publisher: HarperCollins 2011

Genre: YA Science Fiction

Pages: 357

Rating: 4/5 stars

Reading Challenges: Perpetual - 365 YA (#17); Women Authors; Finishing the Series

One touch is all it takes. One touch, and Juliette Ferrars can leave a fully grown man gasping for air. One touch, and she can kill.

No one knows why Juliette has such incredible power. It feels like a curse, a burden that one person alone could never bear. But The Reestablishment sees it as a gift, sees her as an opportunity. An opportunity for a deadly weapon.

Juliette has never fought for herself before. But when she’s reunited with the one person who ever cared about her, she finds a strength she never knew she had.

I picked this one up as a free Amazon Prime Reading selection. It had been on my list for awhile. However, I didn’t really know anything about it, just all the buzz. I was pleasantly surprised by a dystopian science fiction young adult novel that didn’t annoy me. Like many YA novels, the characters have angst. For whatever reason, the angst didn’t annoy me like I thought it would. The action moves quickly and the world is interesting enough that I got over the angst. I really fell for Adam and found Juliette to be a decent main character. I can’t wait to see what happens next.

My copy also included the first short story “Destroy Me” which detailed the in-between story told from Warner’s point of view. He is a despicable human, but oddly fascinating.

Shatter Me

• #1 Shatter Me

• #1.5 Destroy Me

• #2 Unravel Me

• #2.5 Fracture Me

• #3 Ignite Me

• #4 Restore Me

• #4.5 Shadow Me

• #5 Defy Me

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