Poor Juliette has been in the asylum for close to a year because everyone, including her own parents, fears her deadly touch. Readers who prefer their dystopian aspects with a stronger emphasis may need a tad more from the world-building, though. For me, the world was secondary to all of this, and I had enough knowledge of it to get the idea of what it was like but not be overly concerned about the minutiae of it because my attention was elsewhere.
How can I explain it? For me, the focus of the book was Juliette, her struggle not to lose her mind locked up in an asylum, and then her struggle not to let some crazy guy use her power for who knows what purpose except that it’s probably not good. It’s one of the reasons why I couldn’t put the book down I was addicted to the writing and couldn’t read the book fast enough.Īlthough you get sufficient details of the world to assemble a picture that’s bleak-iron-fisted rule by a regime that rose to power on promises to make life better for its citizens but has failed to deliver on them-I found the dystopian element on the lighter side. I loved the prose I loved its flow and its imagery and how it sometimes seemed like poetry. They were used to excellent effect, and not so often that they were distracting. My chief worry over the text strikeouts was that they were going to come off gimmicky, but I didn’t see them that way at all. So between the question marks surrounding the writing and whether this was going to be a dystopian that would click with me, Shatter Me had quite a bit to prove, but prove itself it did.
Lately I’ve also been laying off the dystopians somewhat, reading the occasional one when the mood strikes. I’d heard that the writing style was a little out of the ordinary, with strikeouts throughout the text. It wasn’t until my cousin read this and began nagging me to do the same that I cracked open my copy at last, albeit with some skepticism. Review: Shatter Me is one of those books that I’d seen mentioned everywhere and kept telling myself I was going to read, but other books always ended up jumping ahead of it on my to-read list. Juliette, however, would rather face the consequences for not cooperating, even death, than become the monster she’s always been labeled as. Warner possesses an extremely keen interest in what Juliette can do, and she is horrified to learn that he wants to use her as a weapon. Clinging to her sanity, Juliette is suddenly taken from her four wall prison and brought before Warner, one of the sector heads for the ruling body known as The Reestablishment. To Sum It Up: Juliette Ferrars can kill with her touch, and it’s the reason why she’s been abandoned by her parents and locked up in an asylum.
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