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    Shatter Me
    Shatter Me
    Shatter Me
    Audiobook9 hours

    Shatter Me

    Written by Tahereh Mafi

    Narrated by Kate Simses

    4/5

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    About this audiobook

    The gripping first installment in New York Times bestselling author Tahereh Mafi’s Shatter Me 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.

    And don’t miss Defy Me, the shocking fifth book in the Shatter Me series!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 15, 2011
    ISBN9780062111234
    Shatter Me
    Author

    Tahereh Mafi

    Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me and This Woven Kingdom series, the latter of which has been published in over 30 languages around the world. She was born in a small city somewhere in Connecticut and currently resides in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, Ransom Riggs, fellow bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, and their young daughter. She can usually be found overcaffeinated and stuck in a book.

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    Reviews for Shatter Me

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    What our readers think

    Readers find this title to be a mixed bag. Many reviewers praise the writing style and metaphors, finding them amazing and beautiful. The intense plot and character development are also appreciated. However, some reviewers criticize the writing style as forced and over-dramatic, making it hard to enjoy the book. They also mention repetitive phrases and overuse of metaphors that don't make sense. Despite these criticisms, the majority of reviewers still enjoyed the book and are excited to continue the series. Overall, readers find this title to be worth the read with its unique story and engaging characters.

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    • 3/5
      Classic YA dystopian book. Reads like divergent but more lyrical
    • 5/5
      Loved it so much. Very emotional and exciting. Cant wait to listen more
    • 5/5
      Obsessed with this series!! HIGHLY recommend this series and narrator, I love her voice! ❤
    • 5/5
      This book is worth the hype and I absolutely loved every second of it. The love story is slow burn but it's okay, cuz in the end it's going to get very steamy at least they usually do lol. I love the way their story is developing and I hope that we get more. The character development and the World building is amazing. It gives off X-Men mixed with the Umbrella Academy and "touch her, you die/touch him, you die." Something that stood out and I loved about the performance was when the FMC said something but she scratches it out, we hear that word being scratched off. The performance is was nice and the narrator did a wonderful job. But at some point though, I had to speed it up because the voice was too breathy or Pitched but still " Thank you for doing this for us" I hope the second book is as exciting as the first and that we get more details into what has happened.
    • 5/5
      this book was insanely good i really really enjoyed it from start to finish
    • 5/5
      I am pleased to say that this audiobook was the first and only I’ve ever listened to. I very much admired the different voices to which emphasized each character in their own unique way. The main character (Juliet) searches deep down into a person’s soul, only to find both pros and cons pertaining their past, present, and future. She is neither optimistic, nor pessimistic … ; she happens to express realism upon her actions. Giving the overall “picture” a very relatable aspect I am unable to describe. I truly thank you for the soothing and benevolent voice/sound you’ve bestowed upon my ears. Your voice definitely suits the main character, ever-much-so, your inner and outer individualization.
    • 5/5
      I’m in love with i this series ❤️❤️❤️? The plot is just so beautiful. The first page she really just hook me in wait not even the first page the first sentence is just got me right there from the start. The hook me in and They never let me go.
    • 5/5
      Despite the awkward metaphors, everything else was good and fun. And I REALLY LIKED Warner.
    • 3/5
      I want to preface this review by saying. I think listening to it on audio book was a mistake. The persons voice was just ... too whiny and it was very distracting. I think I would have enjoyed the book a lot more if I was just reading it for myself. I think I rolled my eyes quite a bit because I just get tired of the “frail fragile completely clueless girl who’s so beautiful and perfect yet somehow has n clue. Like Jesus. Give the girl a personality for crying out loud. I think Warner actually brought out more of a personality from Juliette than Adam did. Which was annoying because he didn’t get very much screen time. BUT I gave the book 3 starts because I really was thinking this book was so predictable and I was starting to lose interest. But towards like the 30th something chapter it got really interesting and I was paying closer attention. But right when it was getting good it ENDED AAAHHH!!? it’s decent and I’m planning to read the series because I’ve heard great things. Maybe it’s just a slow starter ?
    • 5/5
      the voice narrator did an amazing job !!!! enjoyed it so much
    • 3/5
      The book itself is a 3.5. The beginning was so incredibly difficult for me to get into. I almost got rid of this book a handful of times during my first portion of reading it. However, the intensity picks up about halfway through and the last portion of the book incorporates one of my FAVORITE book tropes, so I'm excited to continue on.
      Audiobook wise, I think that the narrator did an excellent job.
    • 5/5
      Totally worth the read. I can’t wait to read the second installment
    • 3/5
      Buen inicio para una serie, en definitiva te dan ganas de continuar leyendo la historia.
    • 4/5
      Absolutely loved it.. the writing style.. ? would have loved more if there wasn't a vibe of X-Men series at the end
    • 5/5
      Loved the book so glad I gave it a chance
    • 3/5
      3.5⭐️ I started to really get into the story towards the end. I hope the books keep getting better
    • 5/5
      By far the best YA book I have ever read. The writing style is amazing! I found myself smiling at the metaphors used so many times!
    • 5/5
      I loved this book!!! Can’t wait to continue the series!!!
    • 4/5
      Was very chaotic in the beginning. Works with the character, but hard to listen to. Overall a good start, but reads like a fanfic
    • 3/5
      The story of the book was great! I love dystopian, super powered mc, revolutionary type book so much. But what really ruined it for me was this books type of writing style. The very forced, incomprehensible poetic writing style made it so hard to enjoy the book. Quotes like “There are 400 cotton balls caught in my windpipe." or “He says it with a small smile the size of Jupiter." It’s doesn’t make sense. And these would be so long that the scene being described would get lost in all this wording and I’d even forget what is happening. It doesn’t make sense. I’d give this a 3.5 if I could but overall story good, writing style ruined the experience. Over dramatic, over exaggerated writing.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this and can’t wait to start the next one.
    • 1/5
      The writing stile is killing me i stped listening after 2 chapthers
    • 4/5
      I would say it's more a romance book than a dystopian novel so far, but I did like how it portrayed Juliette's insanity from her isolated life and feeling so distant from everyone because of her powers. I think that it was a bit easy to relate for me because I spent a lot of my childhood in isolation and lacking of parental love from my own parents.

      I read a bit of the ebook out of curiosity first and I would say that I can see how the writing style can bother a lot of people, but I think it's an interesting way to try and convey the character's insanity.
    • 5/5
      Awesome book can't wait to start number 2 in few days
    • 4/5
      A mix of the Red Queen and Divergent series. I’m hooked.
    • 3/5
      it was ok but i didnt fall in love like i hoped!
    • 5/5
      i’ve read this whole series about 5 times and each and every time i fall in love all over again.
    • 4/5
      Shatter Me introduces us to Juliette as she sits in solitary confinement in what seems to be a mental asylum, counting the days (264) since she’s seen, heard, or been touched by another human. The world outside those four walls (with 14 cracks) has gone insane, people starving to death, whole species of animals no longer exist, and the people in power call themselves the Reestablishment. The Reestablishment…these are the people who drug her away to this place for a murder she didn’t mean to commit, to a fate she’s sure she deserves, to be trapped by her guilt as much as by the prison walls. The power she holds within her very skin is one she doesn’t want and she will do anything to disprove the notion that she is a monster, even though she herself believes it. She maintains her tenuous hold on sanity by writing in her notebook and refusing to allow herself to acknowledge the thoughts that sometimes overwhelm her. When she awakes one day to find herself with a cellmate, her entire world begins to change.



      The writing style of Shatter Me was like none I’ve read before, both haunting and at times a bit overwhelming. Written in an almost lyrical or poetic prose, Juliette’s inner thoughts and feelings were often uncomfortably intense, which would be understandable considering the situation she was in. Many of her words/thoughts were written and then struck out, as if she were refusing to allow herself to acknowledge those thoughts. I thought this was a powerful way to show how she was struggling to hold onto her sanity. As she began to have more human interaction, the strikethroughs became less common. It was such a fascinating progression. While, for the most part, I thought the writing was beautiful, there were also times when it felt like overkill and it became a bit tedious. Overall though, I enjoyed the unique imagery and the flow of the words.


      “I always wonder about raindrops.


      I wonder how they are 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. Its 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 raindrops dare to tap on their doors.

      I am a raindrop.

      My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab.”

      The story itself was intense and reminded me very much of Xmen. Juliette’s power is reminiscent of Rogue and many of her characteristics also reminded me of Rogue from Xmen. The plot was action packed and thrilling. The villain, Warner, was out of his mind and made an even more effective bad guy because of the hint of a hidden past that may explain why he is the wicked boy he’s become. Happily, this did not become a love triangle since Warner is simply too psychotic to engender much sympathy from Juliette. The interplay between Juliette and Adam was extremely well done. This is a romance that I can believe. Things between them tend to get pretty steamy a couple times, but Mafi reins it in and manages to keep it PG. The ending also reminded me a lot of Xmen and has me incredibly excited about the sequel.



      Overall, I think that Shatter Me has lived up to all the hype. Most readers will enjoy the intense and original writing style as well as the exciting premise, a steamy romance, and a villain you love to hate. In the sequel, I hope to see more details about the dystopian world and how it became that way and more about the two factions, the Reestablishment and the people who are not ready to succumb to that tyrannical rule and of course more Adam and Juliette! I would recommend Shatter Me to readers who enjoy dystopian or post-apocalyptic fiction, fans of Xmen, and anyone who enjoys a thrilling YA adventure.
    • 4/5
      I almost didn't stick with this story, as the beginning was a little off-putting, but then the character emerges from her near insanity and the plot gets interesting. Many aspects are reminiscent of other stories about humans with "abnormal" abilities (most notably X-Men but also the TV shows Sanctuary and Alphas as well as many other sci-fi stories). But the characters and their situations are unique enough for the story to not feel entirely derivative. I thought the emerging love story was sweet in the first book, but it became distracting by the second book.
    • 5/5
      Really good story