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Does anyone know what Kenji and Nazeera's ship name is?
Nazeera: I never thought I'd say this, but I'm actually having a good time.
Aaron:*Walks into Juliette's bedroom without knocking*
Juliette, annoyed: What are you doing here, Aaron? Get out!
Kenji, blowing on his freshly painted nails: Yeah, this is girl's night.
Nazeera: Do you want to play 20 Questions?
Kenji: Sure!
Nazeera: What's your favorite color?
Kenji, laser-fucking-focused: Triangle. Do you love me?
Juliette: If you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world stays the same.
Kenji: *Eating a sandwich* Kill two
Aaron: Love, you are going to hate yourself in the morning if you stay up any later.
Juliette, deliriously drunk, w/ a freshly shaved head: Jokes on you! I’m gonna hate myself in the morning regardless!
Aaron: That is insane! You would get sick!
Kenji: I’m not saying you wouldn’t get sick, I’m just saying every arrangement is technically an edible arrangement!!
Aaron: Juliette is playing hard to get.
Aaron: Little does she know, I'm a master at playing hard to get rid of.
Kenji: Can I bother you for a second?
Aaron: You're always bothering me, but go ahead.
Kenji: Would you please not Adam this into a worse situation than it already is?
Adam: Hold on, did you just use my name as a verb?
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?
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"
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
Announcement
I adore kenji kishimoto.
defy me is just a big 🖕🏻
like not in a bad way AT ALL i love tahereh mafi and i love the shatter me series. i’m just fucking scared to continue defy me holy shit. SO MUCH HAS HAPPENED AND I KNOW SO MUCH SHIT IS ABT TO HAPPEN WTF IM TERRIFIED. also this book is very confusing. like in restore me, at the end (spoilers) when juliette “kills everyone” brendan was shot, lily winston and ian were dead and kenji was unconscious so like was that just juliette kinda seeing this or what. am i just rlly fucking dumb. idk it’s been a while since i read restore me lol help me.