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Tahereh Mafi

4.2 AVERAGE

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

GIVE ME THE SECOND BOOK NOW

one thing about tahereh is she NEVER disappoints when it comes to writing men
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
dark emotional sad tense fast-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
adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

  • Tropes/themes:
    • Dual POV
    • Enemies to lovers
    • Forbidden romance
    • Infiltration
    • Identity
    • Oppression
    • War
    • Moral ambiguity
  • Great integration of the legacy cameos (characters from the original Shatter Me series)
  • It started out really strong, but pretty much once they reached Sector 45, I lost  a lot of interest- not a lot was really happening.
  • The romance scenes (mostly just pining) were a little cringe to me and I just wanted to skip past them but luckily it didn’t feel like it was super heavily focused on that.
  • It also feels weird to be reading from James’ POV as an adult lol.
  • A decent read- not super great but not necessarily bad either.
  • I dont think I’ll give up on this spin-off series; I’m hoping it was just more of a solid set up for the series and that we’ll get more from future books.
  • Ends on a cliffhanger.
  • Content warnings:
    • Death
    • Murder
    • Suicide
    • Violence
    • Injury/injury detail/blood
    • Torture
    • Confinement
    • Grief


Gah!!! Sooooo good. Read it in like one sitting. I need book 2 NOW! Cliff hanger might kill me.
adventurous funny fast-paced
adventurous mysterious 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