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Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

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adventurous dark emotional 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

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

When I tell you, this book hooked me… I thought about it constantly, planned about when I would read, and how I could figure my day to have as much time as possible to read. I read during lunch at work. Something about this book (and series so far at least) just makes you want to keep reading. There’s no such thing as a good stopping point because by the time you get to the end of a chapter, you HAVE to know what happens next. Plus the chapters are so shorty, it’s deceiving like ‘oh one more chapter can’t hurt’ and an hour and a half later you’re STILL READING.

This may have been a book that got the most ‘Jaw Drops’ out if me:
Warner and Juliette hooking up, Warner and Adam being brothers, Warner’s powers, Juliette overpowering Anderson, JULIETTE GETTING SHOT WITH LIKE 20 PAGES LEFT,
and I know I’m missing more moments where my jaw went through the floor but this book kept me engaged and on my toes the whole time. 
Can’t wait to continue this series!

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adventurous challenging dark emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

lots of flowery language

This book, like the first one and the novella, is filled with purple prose. Lots of internal monologuing. While there are some beautiful quotes in this book, some parts literally make no sense and our total fluff. The plot doesn’t seem to go very far per book. There’s so much repetition, as well. I feel like it’s gonna take me forever to get through these books because the plot is moving so slow. I don’t know if I’ll make it through the series. Also, the FMC was insane by the end of the book. I am completely empathetic towards what she has gone through in her short life so far and of all of her feelings. I think they’re more then valid. That doesn’t bother me much most of the time. What bothers me is her lack of communication and keeping secrets that put dozens if not hundreds of innocent lives at risk. Whenever she does something completely moronic, I have to remind myself that she’s just 17 and literally has no interpersonal skills because of her trauma. But man does she act like a moron sometimes.

Examples:

“Synonyms know each other like old colleagues, like a set of friends who’ve seen the world together. They swap stories, reminisce about their origins and forget that though they are similar, they are entirely different, and though they share a certain set of attributes, one can never be the other. Because a quiet night is not the same as a silent one, a firm man is not the same as a steady one, and a bright light is not the same as a brilliant one because the way they wedge themselves into a sentence changes everything.”

“My fists are full of unlucky pennies and my heart is a jukebox demanding a few nickels and my head is flipping quarters heads or tails heads or tails heads or tails heads or tails”


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challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I want to love the idea of this series but find the characters just impossible. Juliette spends all her time describing everything in this abstract poetry but it’s always things happening to or around her. She so rarely does anything and when she does, it’s usually cry. Adam got even more frustrating in this book, but I did enjoy more of Kenji. Not sure I’m going to put more time into this series.

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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

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Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

“I can love him, but I can’t depend on him to be my backbone. I can’t be my own person if I constantly require someone else to hold me together.” I couldn’t put this book down, read it all in a whole day. The plot is so addicting, like you just HAVE to know how the story continues. Kenji is my favorite character. We see a different, more serious side of him and start to wonder about his life before he met Juliette. We see more of Warner and his love for Juliette genuinely makes you root for him to be end game. Adam, sweet, Adam. He’s perfect, but there’s something about Warner who only has a soft spot for Juliette that makes him so more appealing. Also….we will NOT talk about the “Adam incident”. I threw my book at the wall. Anywho, read this book, read this series. You have too.

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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emotional reflective medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Juliette is one of the most self-pitying, boy-obsessed idiot I’ve ever read. She’s so busy wallowing in self-pity and she’s reckless and doesn’t think her actions through. For about 50% of the book, she mopes and whines about Adam and how she’s a monster and how everyone is mean and she doesn’t care about anyone except Adam. She spends all of her time ignoring everyone at Omega Point, refusing to interact with anyone that wasn’t him. She even forgot he has a little brother! It really irked me the way she yelled at Castle, a Black man, but then let Warner, a white boy, say whatever he wanted with little interruption. I do like Juliette finally getting over her self loathing and pity part thanks to best boy Kenji, who I love with all my heart. Warner, on the other hand, was kind of meh. The entire drama of Juliette/Aaron/Adam kind of overshadowed the plot. If Adam had just told her what was going on, a lot of things would’ve been easier. 

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Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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