“You can’t touch me,” I whisper.
I’m lying, is what I don’t tell him.
He can touch me, is what I’ll never tell him.
But things happen when people touch me.
Strange things.
Bad things.
No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon.
But Juliette has plans of her own.
After a lifetime without freedom, she’s finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she’d lost forever.
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Sexual Content - 2/5
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Violence - 2/5
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Language - 2/5
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Drugs and Alcohol - /5
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Summary
So I just read this book and it was so amazing and unbelievable and everyone should read it and if you're wondering why I'm not using punctuation than read the book because the author obviously hates sentence structure and the whole book is written like this but it's still fabulous. Did that confuse you? Sorry. I was merely trying to demonstrate the off-the-walls writing technique I encountered in Shatter Me, which has to be one of the weirdest books I have read in a long time. And I liked it. Remember in The Catcher In The Rye (if you haven't read that, shame on you) at the end where Holden Caulfield starts to really lose his mind, and his rambling has you staring at the same sentences wondering if they contained inherent meaning to life? That was how I felt at the beginning of Shatter Me. The lush, imaginative similes the narrator uses as she rambles to her diary had me franticlly jotting down quote after quote after quote. She's rambling and clearly rather unstable, but I sympathized with her and found myself hoping she wasn't really insane. I was kind of irritated by the prescence of a boy by chapter THREE- seriously?- but things had started to kind of pick up by the middle. Unfortunately, I found myself swooning over the wrong guy- are we supposed to root for the villain this time? Why do I ALWAYS end up on team Bad Guy?!- because the main boy love interest felt kind of 2-dimensional. Which is where the star was lost. But other than that, the story was pretty butt-kicking- I loved the slow reveal of the protagonist's true past and gentel nature you don't expect- and lots of gunshots, military marches, and car chases. The ending was pretty WTF, but it was set up in a way I'm confident the sequel will be pretty awesome. I recommend Shatter Me to those die-hard dystopia fans looking for a quick, engaging read.
Violence-I felt like it was pretty violent- namely someone getting shot point-blank in the forehead and a child being tortured briefly.
Language-There was some crude language but nothing serious
Sexual-Hmmm. It was a LOT of making out but instead of mentioning what was going on the narrator starts talking about birds and junk, so nothing serious.