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Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

61 reviews

alexsnerdycorner's review

adventurous emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This was an excellent novel. I love Juliette and Adam. Warner intrigues me. It was a very fast read. Magi’s style of writing is very unique. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Abandonment, and Classism

Moderate: Cursing and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Alcoholism, Bullying, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, and Alcohol

kim_104's review against another edition

adventurous dark hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Violence, and Gun violence

Moderate: Child abuse, Death, and Blood

Minor: Bullying

psydneigh's review against another edition

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book definitely sets up the rest of them. Interested to see where things go.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Gun violence, Abandonment, Alcoholism, Bullying, Confinement, Grief, Physical abuse, Child death, and Child abuse

alex_thrillers's review

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I loved Juliette and her character development very much, I just didn't like that Aaron Warner wasn't getting her in this book I really have fallen for this man haha

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Blood, Child abuse, Murder, and Violence

donatio's review

adventurous emotional tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

I finally gave in to the hype after a friend of mine read it and I'm still in doubt if the hype is deserved.
I really liked the portrayal of the chaos in Juliette's mind and the fast-paced style fit the book. 
But I couldn't yet bond with any of the characters expect

the ones at Omega Point. Adam is so toxic and Warner isn't (yet?) the one Book tok made him, although I know I should always be careful with. Booktok's portrayal of characters. 
Furthermore there wasn't much depth to what happens in those two weeks before Juliette planned to escape with Adam. What was she doing? More importantly, what was Warner doing with her? I would've liked to see some more developme
nt of the details.

I will continue the series in the hopes that the writing style will become better.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Medical trauma, Gore, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Abandonment, Blood, Child abuse, Cursing, Sexual assault, Bullying, Physical abuse, Deadnaming, Mental illness, Police brutality, Torture, and Violence

teifrank's review against another edition

2.75

The writing style really messed up the story for me. The author tried too hard to make the writing beautiful with metaphors but over did it..big time! And 75% of them were a 'smh' moment because they didn't make sense. This is also a prime example of being told how people felt instead of shown which is also another thing I dislike. Like the parts that are meant to pull on the heartstring  are weak and do nothing. The love story is also weak and rushed..she went from being scared of the guy to confessing love in less than 100 pages for us and a couple days for the characters. Hoping book 1.5 and 2 are better because I will DNF if they're not. There's a Fairyloot reprint and new edition that I was excited about but...not so much.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Violence, Abandonment, Physical abuse, Torture, Bullying, and Child abuse

There are heavy topics but the author pushes through some of these without a care.

sam_wal's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Torture, Blood, Abandonment, Gun violence, Death, Gore, and Murder

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders, Cursing, Grief, and Police brutality

Minor: Bullying, Torture, Violence, Child abuse, Kidnapping, and Mental illness

deffonotmillie_'s review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

no not rlly

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Hate crime, Suicidal thoughts, Gore, Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Murder, Medical trauma, Kidnapping, Child abuse, Blood, Cursing, Toxic friendship, Injury/Injury detail, Gun violence, Death of parent, Alcohol, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic relationship, Drug use, Death, Abandonment, War, Violence, Emotional abuse, and Bullying

wickedgrumpy's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No

2.0

I think I missed the time frame where I would have eaten this up.  There's a lot of world building that happens that is super intriguing but the romance element is juvenile (intentionally since it makes sense for the characters) but I cannot stop cringing.

I don't know if I will continue, I might read the Destroy Me novella since it's at the end of my copy from the library and see how I feel about it then.

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Content Warnings

Minor: Slavery, War, Child death, Suicidal thoughts, Gaslighting, Injury/Injury detail, Sexual assault, Toxic relationship, Violence, Abandonment, Emotional abuse, Stalking, Torture, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Kidnapping, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Death, Murder, Body horror, Grief, Body shaming, Death of parent, Medical content, Mental illness, Police brutality, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Classism, Confinement, Bullying, and Child abuse

leda64's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I LOVED KENJI AND JAMES. the book is a bet boring and there’s too much details, it could’ve been a 100 page book. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Hate crime, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Cursing, Death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Murder, Violence, Stalking, and War