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A review by fiekesfiction
Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
5.0
Upon rereading I both loved it more and less than the first time.
All the things I used to love like the writing style and the characters were still great.
There were some 'meh' things I hadn't noticed the first time, some metaphors and writings were not as great as others. The romance between Adam and Juliëtte is... well knowing what happens in the other books I get it. But it still had some moments I didn’t like.
SO let's first talk about why I loved it so much the first time I read it. The first time I read it was in 2017, at the time I was 15.
I remember a big reason why I loved it so much was because I could very much relate to Juliëtte. I loved all the emotional descriptions of loneliness (let's not get too dramatic here my life wasn't that horrible. I wasn't locked in an asylum for years. I wasn't neglected by my parents. I had friends calm down everyone!) I related to how shy and awkward Juliëtte was and how she would feel out of control. And as I read the other books in this series I related to the way she changed as well.
So a big part of my love for this series is about nostalgia.
Rereading it now made me realize how much I (like Juliëtte) have changed and how much my life has changed.
I also just really love the characters in this story. Kenji is everything and his friendship with Juliëtte (though not very much in this book but the next ones) is the best.
I actually like the romance in this series much more than in other books, but it’s not why I love it. I love it because of the characters and the emotions.
'You’ve suppressed all your rage and resentment because you wanted to be loved,” he says, no longer smiling. “Maybe I understand you, Juliette. Maybe you should trust me. Maybe you should accept the fact that you’ve tried to be someone you’re not for so long and that no matter what you did, those bastards were never happy. They were never satisfied. They never gave a damn, did they?'
All the things I used to love like the writing style and the characters were still great.
There were some 'meh' things I hadn't noticed the first time, some metaphors and writings were not as great as others. The romance between Adam and Juliëtte is... well knowing what happens in the other books I get it. But it still had some moments I didn’t like.
SO let's first talk about why I loved it so much the first time I read it. The first time I read it was in 2017, at the time I was 15.
I remember a big reason why I loved it so much was because I could very much relate to Juliëtte. I loved all the emotional descriptions of loneliness (let's not get too dramatic here my life wasn't that horrible. I wasn't locked in an asylum for years. I wasn't neglected by my parents. I had friends calm down everyone!) I related to how shy and awkward Juliëtte was and how she would feel out of control. And as I read the other books in this series I related to the way she changed as well.
So a big part of my love for this series is about nostalgia.
Rereading it now made me realize how much I (like Juliëtte) have changed and how much my life has changed.
I also just really love the characters in this story. Kenji is everything and his friendship with Juliëtte (though not very much in this book but the next ones) is the best.
I actually like the romance in this series much more than in other books, but it’s not why I love it. I love it because of the characters and the emotions.
'You’ve suppressed all your rage and resentment because you wanted to be loved,” he says, no longer smiling. “Maybe I understand you, Juliette. Maybe you should trust me. Maybe you should accept the fact that you’ve tried to be someone you’re not for so long and that no matter what you did, those bastards were never happy. They were never satisfied. They never gave a damn, did they?'