Things have been crazed in the Reilly abode, but trust me, reading is never pushed aside. Next up in my quest for 52 books in 52 weeks is a series by Tahereh Mafi. This series was picked out by my daughter whose voracious reading has been hampered by college, but still rears its head every time she has a break.
The Shatter Me series is perfect for fans who crave action-packed young adult novels with tantalizing romance like Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, and Legend by Marie Lu. If you're interested in a well told dystopian story, it’s for you. The main character is Juliette, a seventeen year old who hasn't spoken to or touched anyone in 264 days. Why? When her skin touches people, it kills them. Bizarre, right? However, the concept is pretty interesting.
At first, I was a tad put off by Mafi’s writing style. Juliette is in such a terrible place mentally that the author has her think in short, incomplete sentences and then crosses those sentences out as Juliette rewrites reality. It was strange, yet gave me a better insight into who this character was and the things she was dealing with. In addition, she her descriptions were somewhat weird at times “I want to cry into his eyes…”. WTH does that mean, anyway? If you can acknowledge flowery language every once in a while as a bit odd and move on, you’ll have no problem.
Watching Juliette’s character develop over the three books was wonderful (another reason I’m a series junkie). The antagonists are hateable and the protagonists are divine. The twists and turns of the plot were a plus as well. Usually when reading books like these or watching Criminal Minds, I can guess what’s going to happen next and am usually right. Not so, here.
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