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Love is a heartless bastard
Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me
What in the World: How to read the ‘Shatter Me Series’
Book 1: Shatter Me
Novela 1.5: Destroy Me
Book 2: Unravel Me
Novela 2.5: Fracture Me
Book 3: Ignite Me
Book 4: Restore Me
Book 4.5: Shadow Me March 5, 2019
Book 5: Defy Me April 2019
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them
Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
I totally agree with the ‘filler’ comment and the thoughts on the cover being very similar...is anyone else getting increasingly less impressed with the shatter me covers? Don't get me wrong! It's my absolute favourite series, one of the only ones I've ever re-read and Tahereh Mafi is an angel...but the covers just don't seem to do anything for me anymore. I don’t really understand them and the titles are getting more iffy as we go...idk..thoughts?
Also, I didn’t feel as connected to the characters as I originally did when I read the trilogy. It’s as though Tahereh waited too long to write the other books to the point where she forgot her own characters a bit and I felt as though I was reading a fan-fiction.
All throughout the book, I felt as though I was waiting for some big thing to happen and even though a lot did happen and there were many ‘plot twists’, it felt like they...just didn't. I don't know how to explain it.
But the ending... I know it was supposed to be that “big event” the huge climax but it felt poorly written. *spoilers* We just transitioned to this huge world order convention and The meeting seemed unreal with commanders just yelling at Juliette. Who let her even stand up there in this first place? where is this all happening? These dictators don't seem like the kind of people to just shout their displeasure. Oh right then someone just pulls out a gun and shoots?
*more spoilers* and finally and perhaps most irritatingly, I admired Tahereh’ s work with the Shatter me books because she was able to write an amazing story with all the feels without killing off characters left right and center. But then in Restore Me she just-- kills off everyone? How does that even work? Julliete just unlocks this inner power and--what? Yells everyone dead?
I too have high hopes for Defy Me. I'm hoping that Restore me was just getting Tahereh Mafi back into her groove and reacquainting her with her characters. I feel like having a new narrative with the fan-adored Kenji will really be a redeeming quality and hopefully, we’ll get a better sense of all the world building Tahereh has been doing behind the scenes.
DISCLAIMER: I am not hating on the books or Tahereh Mafi. I REPEAT this is my favourite series of all time and this woman is God-sent and has the writing skills of an angel. And if I could say anything about this series I’d say it’s way underrated for all its hidden gems. These are just some thoughts. What are yours? :)
An update from Tahereh Mafi about Defy Me:
> There will be three point of views! It starts with Warner, Juliette, and Kenji
> Looks like Tahereh has decided to expand on world building her Shatter Me series and we’ll be leaving Sector 45
> Lastly, we got a tease that not everything is what it seems for the fifth installment
My thoughts: Overall, I’m real excited to see what Tahereh has to bring to the table for her Shatter Me series! Hopefully we’ll get a little more action and less of a filler type of book. I think my only issue with this cover is that it’s exactly like the old one but with steel eyelashes. Maybe that’s just me but I really miss the personality that each cover had. Even if the cover is my least favorite, I’m still looking forward to the actual story and I will end my notes with positivity of being side by side with Juliette’s journey.
> What are your thoughts on the new facts and cover? What was your favorite cover?
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Me Thinking About Shadow Me Being Released Today
Can we just talk for a second about how Warner and Julliete (I refuse to call her Ella) being in love since forever makes Shatter Me even more heart breaking? Like Warner, this ruthless young dictator, suddenly has this seemingly unfound intense attraction to a lethal girl and he can't even fight it because every freaking molecule in his body his telling him he loves her. And he doesn't know what's happening and he dosent understand how he could be so "weak". And no matter how much he tries to protect her from his father he can't because his father knows from years of observing them, that no matter what, Aaron will be in love with her. And Julliete, unconsciously feeling the same way. But imagine all the trauma she had to go through to get that rooted soul mate bond instinct out of her. Then feeling like crap and overcome with a kind of guilt when she finally falls in love with the guy and everyone gives her crap for it and even she can't understand 100% why she did.
"You think Aaron fell in love with your friend of several months, a rebel girl named Juliette. You don’t know. You don’t know. You don’t know that Aaron has been in love with Ella for the better part of his entire life"
" The reason he had to keep wiping their memories was because it didn’t matter how many times he reset the story or remade the introductions— Aaron always fell in love with her. Every time"
Aaron Warner:
Me: Excuse me... Mr. Warner...Can you stop existing for a quick second so I can breathe?
Who did it better? 007
Mind/ Emotion reading
Aaron Warner vs. Rhysand High Lord of the Night Court
Novela 5.5: Reveal Me
Book 6: Imagine Me March 2020
What in the World: How to read the ‘Shatter Me Series’
Book 1: Shatter Me
Novela 1.5: Destroy Me
Book 2: Unravel Me
Novela 2.5: Fracture Me
Book 3: Ignite Me
Book 4: Restore Me
Book 4.5: Shadow Me March 5, 2019
Book 5: Defy Me April 2019
Would anyone be interested in hearing what songs remind me of the Shatter Me series, specifically Warner?
Hello! Here’s a dose of songs that remind me of Warner I promised ages ago, if you liked it there are more songs if anyone is interested.
Btw this will have spoilers!
BOYFRIEND - Dove Cameron
Basically this whole song reminds me of when Adam and Juliette were together. I don’t think there is specially one line but there are quite a few. “I don't need to tell you twice, All the ways he can't suffice, If I could give you some advice I would leave with me tonight”. “I could be a better boyfriend than him, I could do the shit that he never did”
KILLER SHANGRI-LAH - Psychotic Beats
I heard this on an advert for a tv show and was like ‘oh…yes’. I don’t really think I need an explanation, the song is just pretty badass so I felt the whole vibe was right. “I had to kill you, I’m really sorry”. “But you know what…ain’t nobody gonna change me”
HUNGER - Alibi Music
Literally the same reason for the song above. “I see you watching me with those eyes, I feel them watching me all the time”. “You’ve got secrets and I’ve got mine, but how do we know when to draw the line?”
I DID SOMETHING BAD - Taylor Swift
I felt like this also just fit, it reminded me of when he killed Seamus Fletcher because he had no regrets to it. “They say I did something bad. Then why’s it feel so good?” “Most fun I ever had, and I’d do it over and over and over again if I could”.
THE 30TH - Billie Eilish
I cried when I heard this song it broke my heart. But besides from this just being a masterpiece I felt like it related to Warner in the Believe Me novella when Juliette was thought to die on the plane back to Sanctuary. He was so scared to leave her alone in case anything happened to her because of the trauma of almost loosing her. I think because he wasn’t beside his mother when she died, he may hold some regret that she was alone. In the song, there are a lot of ‘what if…’ and I think it could shows Warner thinking of it happening and struggling to move on from it because of the paranoia of someone you love almost dying. “But I told you even then you looked so pretty. In your hospital bed”. “I remember you said you were scared. And so am I”.
SANCTUARY - Joji
It just felt like a warnette song and it’s just so adorable. I can just hear this playing in the background if shatter me was a movie cause they just love each other and deserve everything. “If you’ve been waiting for falling in love. Babe, you don’t have to wait on me" "Pull me oh so close, 'cause you never know just how long our lives will be" " 'Cause what you want is what I want, sincerity"
LIKE A ROLLING STONE - Bob Dylan
In Restore Me we were told that Warner was listening to this song on repeat and I understand why. It seams to relate to his life and how it has changed so much from Shatter me to Ignite me (and obviously keeps changing). I struggled to pick out chunks of this song to put in this list but if you listen to it then it will probably be clear. "How does it feel, how does it feel? To be without a home" "Nobody's ever taught you how to live out on the street. And now you're gonna have to get used to it" "You're invisible now, you've got no secrets to conceal"
HEATHENS - twenty one pilots
I felt like this fits into the first shatter me book theme but also other books too. I thought it related to Warner because he is often misunderstood by everyone around him as they do not know, nor understand what he has been through. He is both a tragic hero and anti-hero. (Did any of that make any sense?) "Please don't make any sudden moves. You don't know the half of the abuse" "You'll never know the murderer sitting next to you. You'll think, "How'd I get here, sitting next to you?""
FATHER'S SON - Celeste
This feels like this song relates to Anderson, Warner and Adam. Warner throughout the series is almost trying to tell us he isn't anything like his father despite there being characteristics that are the same. Overall there is one clear factor that makes them stand out from each other. Warners emotions. With Adam and Warner it felt like the lines could fit Ignite me and Restore me. It feels like Warner is trying to process how the can be brothers with similar (but different) backgrounds but turned out to be completely different types of people. it reminded me of when Warner told Juliette he admired Adam for his capability to turn out completely different to him despite receiving Andersons abuse. "I know you look at yourself like me. With the same eyes, we both see through to the end" "I heard it's in your blood, baby. I heard you got the same taste in your mouth" "Maybe I'm my father's son, maybe I'm my father's son. Or, I'm nothing like you, or, I'm nothing like you"
SEVEN - Taylor Swift
This song feels to me like it could almost be from Juliette pov of when she was a child. It felt like the memories of their childhood together in Defy me. it was revealed that Warner and his mother hid in the closet to get away from Anderson and Juliette suggested to live underwater (bby). "And I've been meaning to tell you I think your house is haunted Your dad is always mad and that must be why And I think you should come live with Me and we can be pirates Then you won't have to cry Or hide in the closet And just like a folk song Our love will be passed on"
HIGHER LOVE - Lilly Winwood & Steve Winwood
This song is just so cute and I could imagine it playing when Juliette confessed that she loved Warner in Ignite me. "Things look so bad everywhere. In this whole world, what is fair?" "Worlds are turning, and we're just hanging on. Facing our fear, and standing out there alone" "There must be someone who's feeling for me"
Aaron Warner is really making me doubt my moral code and I love it but I'm also horrified at myself for giving in so easily
Okey but for real tho. Warner from shatter me is hilarious.
Juliette fucking told him to go to hell and he responds with "I'm working on it"???
Gives me real Gen z energy
Announcement
I adore kenji kishimoto.
"I want you to make a list of all your favorite things, and I want to be on it."
Juliette ferrars, Shatter me by Tahereh mafi
Favourite book female characters :
June from vicious by V.E scwab
Jude duarte from the Cruel prince by Holly Black
Celeana sardothien from throne of glass by Sarah j mass
Nesta archeron from A court of thorns and roses by Sarah J mass
Jax Taylor from warcross by Marie lu
Scarlett Dragna from caraval by Stephanie garber
Ulla morozova from a language of thorns by leigh bardugo
Emma Carstairs from lady midnight by cassandra clare
Juliette ferrars from shatter me by Tahereh mafi
Jules from genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart
Helen aquilla from an ember in the ashes by sabaa tahir
Favourite friendships in YA (+NA) fantasy books
Juliette ferrars and kenji kishimoto (shatter me by Tahereh mafi)
Emma Carstairs and Cristina Rosales (the dark artifices by cassandra Clare)
Kaz brekker and jesper fahey (six of crows by leigh bardugo)
Bryce Quinlan and Danika fendyr (House of earth and blood by Sarah j mass)
Jem Carstairs and Will herondale (the infernal devices by cassandra Clare)
Fang runin and Chen kitay (the Poppy War by R f kuang)
Chaol westfall and Dorian Havilland (throne of glass by Sarah j mass)
(you can add more in the comments✨)
"Aaron?" "Yes, love?"
“invisibility is my thing. my thing goddammit.”
just started defy me after i just finished legacy and i’m just realizing how muched i miss kenji kishimoto
“today has been a shitstorm of shit.”
i’m just gonna keep posting kenji quotes bc he has THE BEST dialogues of all times im telling you