Ummmm.... Did not like Alex at ALL. He thinks he OWNS Ava and tries to make her forgive him with presents. Likeeeeee what??

The book was okayy but I probably won't continue the series.

just because things could be worse didn’t mean they didn’t suck.

I had as much interest in ass-kissing and small talk as I did in injecting bleach into my veins.

Plausible deniability exists for a reason.

Pretty words and pretty faces don’t equal pretty souls

I didn’t think I had a heart before I met her, but she proved I did—it lay in pieces at her feet

Content Warnings

Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi

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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? It's complicated

4.5

I have a great fear of drowning in the ocean of my own silence.
In the steady thrum that accompanies quiet, my mind is unkind to me. I think too much. I feel, perhaps, far more than I should.

She’s never lived anywhere but in books and memories

I cannot let the broken girl inside of me inhale all that I’ve become. I cannot revert back to another version of myself. I will not shatter, not again, in the wake of an emotional earthquake

There’s a strange kind of freedom in giving up.

I can’t be left alone with my mind or the many frailties of my person. I feel shattered, held together by nothing but necessity

How I wish I’d ripped this heart from my chest long ago

Ignite Me by Tahereh Mafi

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adventurous dark medium-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? It's complicated

5.0

I am no longer afraid of fear, and I will not let it rule me.
Fear will learn to fear me.

Swords may cut and kill, but words will stab and stay, burying themselves in our bones to become corpses we carry into the future, all the time digging and failing to rip their skeletons from our flesh

Maybe we both fell in love with the illusion of something more.

Fracture Me by Tahereh Mafi

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adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.5

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

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adventurous tense medium-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

4.5

Quotes:

Loneliness is an old friend standing beside you in the mirror, looking you in the eye, challenging you to live your life without it. You can’t find the words to fight yourself, to fight the words screaming that you’re not enough never enough never ever enough.

“I know who I am,” he says. “That’s enough for me.”

Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi

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dark tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.5

The Vanishing Stair by Maureen Johnson

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

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

4.0

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