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Shatter me. La trilogia by Tahereh Mafi
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shatter me ⭐️2.5 stars⭐️
This one was bad.
What I learned with this book?
-to write you don’t need commas
-the childhood friends must be erased from the YA books
World building: Shatter me is a dystopian but it’s far fetched. First, we don’t know quite anything about the world. Second It’s all confusing. Third, there are things that you can’t understand, there are not the reasons why this is the situation in this world and you don’t know where they are (I suppose the USA, but they can be anywhere else, too). The few things we know are very predictable.
Plot: Now explain to me. There’s a girl who has been divided from her family and her normal life for three years, she has been locked in a room for 264 days, so she has lost part of her adolescence, but she thinks like a normal 17-years-old (It is her true age but she must miss something or she’s learned how to behave with others in a room with no one else in there). Is it possible? I don’t think so. Then when she meets Adam she is like: “Oh I have been here for too long and I hate the people who put me in here. But look, who is he? He’s that boy from school. I’M SO IN LOVE WITH HIM”
Then when Warner asks her if she wants revenge she is like: “No, I’m sorry. I’m so in love with Adam” ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This is implausible. The author wanted to make the love triangle between the friend from her childhood and the “”villain””. What a new and revolutionary thing!
This book is the classic dystopian: the corrupted government, the rebellion, the girl with powers who finds out there are others like her. Take the Red Queen series and set it in our world instead of Norda. It’s the same thing.
Characters: Juliette is quite annoying because she always thinks about Adam. Her thoughts are well written, but sometimes confused. Maybe it represents the fact that she is really confused, otherwise I cannot explain what she does for the whole book.
The problem is that she seems to mature for her age after reclusion. I know she is not mad but you can’t tell me after almost a year alone in that room you are all right.
Adam is worse than Aspen and Cal, that was unexpected (cause I hate Cal with all my heart). He’s possessive, too much, and thinks Juliette is a seven-years-old girl who needs to be protected every time someone talks to her or looks at her. I mean, chill out. So, since I can’t stand him, I skipped every paragraph with him and Juliette.
Then there’s Warner. He is an interesting villain but he’s represented as a maniac. He’s broken (something apparently happened with his mum), but I didn’t really like how he is represented. He certainly has a disorder but it looks more like a psychopath. He’s obsessed with Juliette but without an evolution of his character, it’s all too fast.
Kenji was like breathing the fresh air of a spring day. Funny, ironic, sometimes a bit too much, but it’s not annoying.
Writing: We read from Juliette’s POV. The writing is confusing like the main character’s mind. At least it’s coherent.
unravel me ⭐️3 stars⭐️
This one was better. I wasn’t expecting to say that but it was quite a nice reading.
World building: It still has the same problems. It’s not explained, so, for me, it’s not a dystopian book.
Plot: In this book nothing special happens. There is an annoying Juliette and a SUCH ANNOYING Adam. They fight, they break up, but they are still in love. That was tiresome to read. For all the book there’s a miserable Juliette living in her bubble, so we don’t discover anything about the Point Omega and how this world works.
Characters: I have to add things only about Warner. He was very interesting, and we start understanding his character. He’s a moral grey one, so he’s just amazing. Kenji is iconic and there are others characters like Mr. Castle, Winston, Brendon, Sonya and Sara, but, thanks to Juliette being an introvert, we basically don’t know them.
Writing: Better than Shatter me: I finally saw commas. I really liked how she developed the “enemies to lovers” story line, really appreciable.
ignite me ⭐️2.75 stars⭐️
Honestly, I don’t know what to think.
World building: Always the same problems. I haven’t understood anything because nothing is explained.
Plot: In the first 250 out of 300 pages there’s just Adam being Adam, annoying and finally showing himself for what he is. Juliette is actually better. After the end of Unravel me, she realises that she has wasted her life so now she is 100% dedicated to the rebellion, she doesn’t want to be scared of others and of her power anymore, and Warner supports her.
But nothing happens. That’s why I think this is not a dystopian with romance but just a romance. I mean, I really liked that, but I was expecting something more. We just read about their behavior in this love story. The “action” is in the last 50 pages. Fast, badly explained and predictable. At the end I was like: three books for this? The romance wasn’t amazing but quite good. The other things need 1 book to be explained, because nothing happens.
Characters: Juliette is better than the two books before. I still don’t understand how she does what she does on the boat. After like two months of training, she is like the most powerful person on Earth. So here we are back at the biggest problem of all the series: everything that happens is far-fetched. Adam gives me drama. When Juliette realizes the bad person she was in love with, I was SOOOO happy. Eventually she understands, thank God. Warner is my favourite character and the only reason I read the trilogy. I really like him but I don’t think he’s well written. Personally, I think that forgiving all that he has done was unnecessary. Sometimes yes, like the thing with the child, but sometimes no.I would have preferred “understanding” instead. While reading, I felt that he had changed but I wasn’t seeing the most important traits of his personality that we found in the other books. He’s just being bipolar and in love, which is good but HE’S SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.
Writing: Now that Juliette is not confused anymore everything is clearer.
This one was bad.
What I learned with this book?
-to write you don’t need commas
-the childhood friends must be erased from the YA books
World building: Shatter me is a dystopian but it’s far fetched. First, we don’t know quite anything about the world. Second It’s all confusing. Third, there are things that you can’t understand, there are not the reasons why this is the situation in this world and you don’t know where they are (I suppose the USA, but they can be anywhere else, too). The few things we know are very predictable.
Plot: Now explain to me. There’s a girl who has been divided from her family and her normal life for three years, she has been locked in a room for 264 days, so she has lost part of her adolescence, but she thinks like a normal 17-years-old (It is her true age but she must miss something or she’s learned how to behave with others in a room with no one else in there). Is it possible? I don’t think so. Then when she meets Adam she is like: “Oh I have been here for too long and I hate the people who put me in here. But look, who is he? He’s that boy from school. I’M SO IN LOVE WITH HIM”
Then when Warner asks her if she wants revenge she is like: “No, I’m sorry. I’m so in love with Adam” ARE YOU KIDDING ME? This is implausible. The author wanted to make the love triangle between the friend from her childhood and the “”villain””. What a new and revolutionary thing!
This book is the classic dystopian: the corrupted government, the rebellion, the girl with powers who finds out there are others like her. Take the Red Queen series and set it in our world instead of Norda. It’s the same thing.
Characters: Juliette is quite annoying because she always thinks about Adam. Her thoughts are well written, but sometimes confused. Maybe it represents the fact that she is really confused, otherwise I cannot explain what she does for the whole book.
The problem is that she seems to mature for her age after reclusion. I know she is not mad but you can’t tell me after almost a year alone in that room you are all right.
Adam is worse than Aspen and Cal, that was unexpected (cause I hate Cal with all my heart). He’s possessive, too much, and thinks Juliette is a seven-years-old girl who needs to be protected every time someone talks to her or looks at her. I mean, chill out. So, since I can’t stand him, I skipped every paragraph with him and Juliette.
Then there’s Warner. He is an interesting villain but he’s represented as a maniac. He’s broken (something apparently happened with his mum), but I didn’t really like how he is represented. He certainly has a disorder but it looks more like a psychopath. He’s obsessed with Juliette but without an evolution of his character, it’s all too fast.
Kenji was like breathing the fresh air of a spring day. Funny, ironic, sometimes a bit too much, but it’s not annoying.
Writing: We read from Juliette’s POV. The writing is confusing like the main character’s mind. At least it’s coherent.
unravel me ⭐️3 stars⭐️
This one was better. I wasn’t expecting to say that but it was quite a nice reading.
World building: It still has the same problems. It’s not explained, so, for me, it’s not a dystopian book.
Plot: In this book nothing special happens. There is an annoying Juliette and a SUCH ANNOYING Adam. They fight, they break up, but they are still in love. That was tiresome to read. For all the book there’s a miserable Juliette living in her bubble, so we don’t discover anything about the Point Omega and how this world works.
Characters: I have to add things only about Warner. He was very interesting, and we start understanding his character. He’s a moral grey one, so he’s just amazing. Kenji is iconic and there are others characters like Mr. Castle, Winston, Brendon, Sonya and Sara, but, thanks to Juliette being an introvert, we basically don’t know them.
Writing: Better than Shatter me: I finally saw commas. I really liked how she developed the “enemies to lovers” story line, really appreciable.
ignite me ⭐️2.75 stars⭐️
Honestly, I don’t know what to think.
World building: Always the same problems. I haven’t understood anything because nothing is explained.
Plot: In the first 250 out of 300 pages there’s just Adam being Adam, annoying and finally showing himself for what he is. Juliette is actually better. After the end of Unravel me, she realises that she has wasted her life so now she is 100% dedicated to the rebellion, she doesn’t want to be scared of others and of her power anymore, and Warner supports her.
But nothing happens. That’s why I think this is not a dystopian with romance but just a romance. I mean, I really liked that, but I was expecting something more. We just read about their behavior in this love story. The “action” is in the last 50 pages. Fast, badly explained and predictable. At the end I was like: three books for this? The romance wasn’t amazing but quite good. The other things need 1 book to be explained, because nothing happens.
Characters: Juliette is better than the two books before. I still don’t understand how she does what she does on the boat. After like two months of training, she is like the most powerful person on Earth. So here we are back at the biggest problem of all the series: everything that happens is far-fetched. Adam gives me drama. When Juliette realizes the bad person she was in love with, I was SOOOO happy. Eventually she understands, thank God. Warner is my favourite character and the only reason I read the trilogy. I really like him but I don’t think he’s well written. Personally, I think that forgiving all that he has done was unnecessary. Sometimes yes, like the thing with the child, but sometimes no.I would have preferred “understanding” instead. While reading, I felt that he had changed but I wasn’t seeing the most important traits of his personality that we found in the other books. He’s just being bipolar and in love, which is good but HE’S SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT.
Writing: Now that Juliette is not confused anymore everything is clearer.