Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)

Posted on 07 November 2018 by Tahereh Mafi

I have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI m than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette 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 any, 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 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. Best Download Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) Author Tahereh Mafi For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr This is not a dystopia, it is a romance This is not a novel, it is a collection of similes and metaphors, most of which do not make sense I originally gave Shatter Me two stars because that s my sort of kneejerk reaction to books I don t like, but after thinking it over for a while, I can t recall anything positive about it that would justify a rating ofthan one star.You re probably assuming correctly that I went into this book with low expectations This is completely true Any so This is not a dystopia, it is a romance This is not a novel, it is a collection of similes and metaphors, most of which do not make sense I originally gave Shatter Me two stars because that s my sort of kneejerk reaction to books I don t like, ...I know many. really a SHIT TON of people found this book to be oh so romantic, but I can t help but think how gross it was.The writing Mafi s style of writing varies Let me categorize.This doesn t even make sense writing 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 He says it with a small smile the size of Jupiter I m picturing this in my head and it s not pretty writing I know many. really a SHIT TON of people found this book to be oh so romantic, but I can t help but think how gross it was.The writing Mafi s style of writing varies Let me categorize.This doesn t even make sense writing 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 He says it with a small smile the size of Jupiter I m picturing this in my head and it s not pretty writing Every organ in my body falls to the ground There are 400 cotton balls caught in my windpipe My mouth is sitting on my kneecaps My jaw is dangling from my shoelace My stomach drops onto my knees I blush through my bones My spine is conducting enough electricity to power a city Repetition gone wrong writing I blush I blush His lips part Close I blush I blush His lips pa...MY PRECIOUS IS NOW SIGNED BY TAHEREH I can die of happiness now 3 In case y all didn t know, not only was this book optioned by Warner Bros as a movie, it has now been optioned as a TV SHOW BY ABC STUDIOS with Tahereh as a producer This better happen I am not joking I am tired of great books cough, cough The Song of the Lioness Quartet and The Dust Lands Trilogy Blood Red Road Rebel Heart Raging Star not becoming movies or TV shows after they are optioned Dear book gods and I k MY PRECIOUS IS NOW SIGNED BY TAHEREH I can die of happiness now 3 In case y all didn t know, not only was this book optioned by Warner Bros as a movie, it has now been optioned as a TV SHOW BY ABC STUDIOS with Tahereh as a producer This better happen I am not joking I am tired of great books cough, cough The Song of the Lioness Quartet and The Dust Lands Trilogy Blood Red Road Rebel Heart Raging Star not becoming movies or TV shows after they are optio...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here November 2017I picked this back up on a whim because I ve been dealing with anxiety lately and wanted to return to something comforting, so I decided to annotate one of my paperback copies And I gotta say, It s weird returning to book one Ignite Me is my favorite book of all time, and rereading that book is such an immersive experience that I always come out of feeling empowered This book, on the other hand, holds such a special place in my heart because it s so relatable that it hurts F November 2017I picked th...Juliette describing Adam s eyes perfect shade of cobalt, blue like a blossoming bruise, clear and deep and decided careful, curious 2 buckets of rainwater deep, fresh, clear blue and bottomless like the deepest part of the ocean tight as tight as his fists as tight as the strain in his arms bottomless blue blue blue blue midnight moment filled with memories, the only windows into my world always shining the darkness two pools of perfection, open, honest, humble a sha Juliette describing Adam s eyes perfect shade of cobalt, blue like a blossoming bruise, clear and deep and decided careful, curious 2 buckets of rainwater deep, fresh, clear blue and bottomless like the deepest part of the ocean tight as tight as his fists as tight as the strain in his arms bottomless blue blue blue blue midnight moment filled with memories, the only windows into my world always shining the darkness two pools of perfection, open, honest, humble a shade of blue in a midnight sky Juliette describing Adam s gaze like a white hot poker pressed against my skin touching every inch of my body locked into mine is fixed on me calm, unflappable 2 buckets of river water at midnight I d like to cry into his eyes I ve never been a purple prose type of girl A book that will forever remain nameless spoke of leaking wombs and well it made me shiver It also intro...Shatter Me, otherwise known as When Creative Writing Class Goes Wrong.I am all for experimental writing, for stretching your abilities and trying to find fresh ways to express ideas Occasionally you end up with genius, but most of the time you result in pretentious, awkward prose that stick in the proverbial craw of readers This book is that writing There are plenty of examples that I can give as evidence but I shall stick with two relatively short ones His eyes scan the silhouette of my Shat ter Me, oth er wise known as When Cre ative Writ ing Class Goes Wrong.I am all for exper i men tal writ ing, for stretch ing your abil i ties and try ing to find fresh ways to express ideas Occa sion ally you end up with genius, but most of the time you result in pre ten tious, awk ward prose that stick in the prover bial craw of read ers This book is that writ ing There are plenty of exam ples that I can give as evi dence but I shall stick with two rel a tively short ones His eyes scan the sil hou ette of my struc ture and the slow motion makes my heart race 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 some thing that feels like the absence of...This book was just awful.Awful.There is no other way to describe this book, but awful.When I was about eleven or twelve, before we had the Great Garage Sale of the Noughties, my sister used to always sit me down and force me to watch this terrible movie called All She Ever Wanted I watched that shit about seven times, and I got so abhorrently sick of it that eventually I hid it.The DVD rack hit a status quo All were happy Until one day a neighbor took the first strike in the Great Garage Sale This book was just awful.Awful.There is no other way to describe this book, but awful.When I was about eleven or twelve, before we had the Great Garage Sale of the Noughties, my sister used to always sit me down and force me to watch this terrible movie called All She Ever Wanted I watched that shit about seven times, and I got so abhorrently sick of it that eventually I hid it.The DVD rack hit a status quo All were happy Until one day a neighbor took the first strike in the Great Garage Sale of the Noughties, and my sister bought an Ingrid Bergman boxed set There were five rotting monkey brains...I always wonder about raindrops.I wonder about how they re always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end It s like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn t seem to care where the contents fall, doesn t seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap I always wonder about raindrops.I wonder about how they re always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end It s like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn t seem to care where the contents fall, doesn t seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on t...I always wonder about raindrops.I wonder about how they re always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end It s like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn t seem to care where the contents fall, doesn t ...I deserve a medal for finishing this book.Like, the Olympic gold medal in the Anti DNF Games, people Rant Ahead It took me three months to finish this book.THREE Not 3, Miss Mafi Now, normally, I would have tossed this book out the window like an overwrought Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper, being that I AM the queen of th...

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07 November 2018

Tahereh Mafi