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Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi

26 reviews

hayleythegoose's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Cursing, Gun violence, Panic attacks/disorders, Blood, Child abuse, Abandonment, Death of parent, Murder, Grief, Torture, Violence, Death, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Vomit, War, Transphobia, and Sexual content

Minor: Gore, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Infertility, Infidelity, Cancer, and Alcoholism

akane_readsyt's review

adventurous emotional tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: War and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Confinement, Abandonment, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Violence

Minor: Grief, Islamophobia, Racism, Alcohol, Deadnaming, and Injury/Injury detail

taliatalksbooks's review against another edition

adventurous challenging 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? No

4.0

Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi was just as fast paced as the first three books in Juliette’s story. I love being able to see the other side, as well as the edition of Warner’s point of view. I feel like this book allows us more insight into both characters, and allows us to see Warner’s pure feelings. I also think these books are a great representation of mental illness, and living through them. This was a really fast and quick read, much like the other before it, and I’m really excited to see where this series goes from here! If you’ve enjoyed the first three in this series, it’s a safe bet you’ll enjoy this one, too!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Abandonment, Panic attacks/disorders, and Mental illness

Moderate: Blood, Death, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Transphobia, and Forced institutionalization

Minor: Addiction

claire_fitzgibbon13's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious 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? No

5.0

I continue to love this series. But god shits  about to get real real. THE ENDING. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Abandonment, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Child abuse, Alcoholism, Sexual content, War, and Alcohol

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

gullicksen31's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Transphobia, Abandonment, and Child abuse

Minor: Panic attacks/disorders

valreadssometimes's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious slow-paced

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

2.0

What did I just read?

The first half (if not more) of the book felt like white noise. I wasn’t really interested in Juliette and Warner and their relationship drama, which was made especially ridiculous by the fact that they’d only been dating around a month. Also, the “issues” Juliette is facing are kind of silly and mostly stem from her being an idiot thinking that the role of Supreme Commander would be easy. I had so much secondhand embarrassment from reading about her trying to be good at politics. 

The other half of the book was just confusing. Everything happened too quickly and things came out of nowhere, making me feel like I was either missing something or losing my mind. 

I’m not going to add any spoilers because I don’t even really know what was revealed.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Gore, Torture, and Abandonment

Minor: Sexual content, Transphobia, Child abuse, Outing, and War

molly_rose's review against another edition

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Confinement, Racism, Sexism, Transphobia, Death, Gaslighting, Murder, Grief, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Abandonment, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Emotional abuse, and War

themoodreader's review against another edition

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Violence, Abandonment, Confinement, and Murder

Minor: Kidnapping, Death, Death of parent, Forced institutionalization, Sexual content, Torture, Violence, Genocide, Islamophobia, Gun violence, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Emotional abuse, Abandonment, Alcohol, Blood, Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Physical abuse, and Transphobia

pippamillerxoxo_'s review

challenging dark funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Murder, Grief, Gun violence, Cursing, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, and Abandonment

jen1804's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.25

The beginning of this book was great, it did sort of slump toward the middle but only slightly and the ending was outrageously good.
There was lots in this book that confused me though, like so much that it made me kind of mad. I’m also beginning to heavily dislike Juliette and I don’t know whether that’s intentional on Mafi’s part yet or not.
Juliette definitely overreacts to Aaron informing her of everything he’s learned about her past life. Let’s get this straight girl, the moment he learned about everything, he told you, and he left nothing out. The one piece of information he had known for a long time was not that big of a deal tbh and I understand his reasoning for withholding it. The moment he found out more he told you. I was worried that Mafi was going to do the classic miscommunication thing of getting one character (Aaron) to explain to the other character (Juliette) is such a poor way that they don’t understand. But that’s not what happened, Mafi wrote Aaron’s explanation so clearly and I was left thinking Juliette girl calm the fuck down.
Kenji is still amazing. Love his character. Love love Nazeera, and Kenji’s (attempted) flirtation with her haha.
I liked the fact that we got some Aaron/Adam content, that was a healthy conversation. And I also liked that after this Adam’s character takes a back seat for the rest of the book.
I also really loved the Aaron POVs in this book, yes yes yes. His thought processes and his anguish and heartbreak over Juliette, and him having a panic attack was all so beautifully written. 
I loved how Juliette tried to force a friendship between Kenji and Warner but they’re both like nahhhh. The bad hair cut was so funny. But then they kind of bond over caring for Juliette when she’s drunk too much scotch and Aaron has to fill Kenji in.
At first I was like ugh why are we getting Juliette’s journal entries again, just repetition of extracts I’ve read before, but then I actually really appreciated the rereads of the journal entries parallel to the present. Because the more the book went on the more I came to the conclusion that Juliette is in fact insane and seeing the chapters play out alongside her journal entries helped cement this.
In a lot of ways this book kinda felt a bit disjointed from the first three, i.e. like Mafi hadn’t planned this far ahead when she wrote the original trilogy which I think is true and it shows. Like why is Castle suddenly this font of all knowledge when it comes to the Reestablishment, some of the stuff he was coming out with was crazy and I have no idea where he learned it all when even Aaron didn’t know?????? But actually as a book on its own it holds up really well.
And that ending was insane, in a good way. I audibly exclaims “W.T.F”! Loved loved loved, and it bumps the rating up despite some of my earlier confusions during the book.
Satisfactory ending? Absolutely.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Panic attacks/disorders, Torture, Transphobia, Violence, Abandonment, Confinement, Mental illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, and Gun violence

Minor: Alcohol, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, Genocide, Gore, Suicidal thoughts, and War