Shatter Me

The Shatter Me Series, book 1

by Tahereh Mafi

audio cd, 1 pages

Published April 17, 2018 by HarperCollins and Blackstone Audio.

ISBN:: 978-1-9825-2920-8

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war-- and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be …

Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting as The Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as The X-Men. Full of pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Shatter Me is a fresh and original dystopian novel—with a paranormal twist—that will leave readers anxiously awaiting its sequel.

12 editions

surya reviewed Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Review of 'Shatter Me' on 'Goodreads'

1 star

Review of the book and not the author.

This is not love. This is not erotica. This is not action. Felt like a book written by a pre-teen.
Altho I read many middle school level of books, wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

The fact that this book has 5million rating and the author went on to write sequels for this book baffles me.

halkeye reviewed Shatter me by Tahereh Mafi

Review of 'Shatter me' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

Didn't enjoy the rapey attitude of the "bad guy". Didn't enjoy main "couple" having to stop and kiss almost constantly. The whole "touch me touch me touch me I need to be touched" stuff was very uncomfortable (though totally understandable from the characters history/point of view).

I really only liked the last few chapters, and even then I think I'm going to find a synopsis online somewhere for the rest of the series.

Eli reviewed Shatter me by Tahereh Mafi

None

3 stars

Rounded up rating.
This is a bizarre book to listen to. Only after reading some reviews did I understand the sound effect was the strike through motion for the written words. I just thought my audiobook was faulty and bad quality. I am grateful I did not have to try and read that text.
Also so complicated way of writing, unnecessarily. So many embellishments and metaphors that the actual meaning remained a mystery for most of the time. Also the plot is so so, a time in the future with many people dead and resources sparse. At the same time some people have superpowers. But I am a bit annoyed this turned out to be mostly a romance. Romance in an embellished environment through the words of a 17 year old girl who has a curse to hurt with her touch, until the boy of her dreams appears and is …

sugar reviewed Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Review of 'Shatter Me' on 'GoodReads'

1 star

this is unironically one of the worst books i've ever read in my life

Kattas reviewed Shatter me by Tahereh Mafi

Review of 'Shatter me' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

I'm tentatively tagging this one as a superhero romance, even though so far it's really just a dystopian romance with hints of superheroism to come.

It's a fun book with interesting characters, although some of that character exploration is a little clumsy. It was certainly an easy book to keep reading, and the action is well written and exciting.