Children Of My Mind.I Have Given You A Home,among These Pages.Now Please,Take Solace Folded Between Your

Children of my mind.  I have given you a home, among these pages. Now please, Take solace folded between your siblings. Cease your cries. And let me rest.

Bleeding Out

I totally agree with the ‘filler’ comment and the thoughts on the cover being very similar...is anyone else getting increasingly less impressed with the shatter me covers? Don't get me wrong! It's my absolute favourite series, one of the only ones I've ever re-read and Tahereh Mafi is an angel...but the covers just don't seem to do anything for me anymore. I don’t really understand them and the titles are getting more iffy as we go...idk..thoughts?

Also, I didn’t feel as connected to the characters as I originally did when I read the trilogy. It’s as though Tahereh waited too long to write the other books to the point where she forgot her own characters a bit and I felt as though I was reading a fan-fiction. 

All throughout the book, I felt as though I was waiting for some big thing to happen and even though a lot did happen and there were many ‘plot twists’, it felt like they...just didn't. I don't know how to explain it. 

But the ending... I know it was supposed to be that “big event” the huge climax but it felt poorly written. *spoilers* We just transitioned to this huge world order convention and The meeting seemed unreal with commanders just yelling at Juliette. Who let her even stand up there in this first place? where is this all happening? These dictators don't seem like the kind of people to just shout their displeasure. Oh right then someone just pulls out a gun and shoots?

*more spoilers* and finally and perhaps most irritatingly, I admired Tahereh’ s work with the Shatter me books because she was able to write an amazing story with all the feels without killing off characters left right and center. But then in Restore Me she just-- kills off everyone? How does that even work? Julliete just unlocks this inner power and--what? Yells everyone dead?

I too have high hopes for Defy Me. I'm hoping that Restore me was just getting Tahereh Mafi back into her groove and reacquainting her with her characters. I feel like having a new narrative with the fan-adored Kenji will really be a redeeming quality and hopefully, we’ll get a better sense of all the world building Tahereh has been doing behind the scenes.

DISCLAIMER: I am not hating on the books or Tahereh Mafi. I REPEAT this is my favourite series of all time and this woman is God-sent and has the writing skills of an angel. And if I could say anything about this series I’d say it’s way underrated for all its hidden gems. These are just some thoughts. What are yours? :)

An update from Tahereh Mafi about Defy Me:

> There will be three point of views! It starts with Warner, Juliette, and Kenji

> Looks like Tahereh has decided to expand on world building her Shatter Me series and we’ll be leaving Sector 45

> Lastly, we got a tease that not everything is what it seems for the fifth installment

My thoughts: Overall, I’m real excited to see what Tahereh has to bring to the table for her Shatter Me series! Hopefully we’ll get a little more action and less of a filler type of book. I think my only issue with this cover is that it’s exactly like the old one but with steel eyelashes. Maybe that’s just me but I really miss the personality that each cover had. Even if the cover is my least favorite, I’m still looking forward to the actual story and I will end my notes with positivity of being side by side with Juliette’s journey.

> What are your thoughts on the new facts and cover? What was your favorite cover?

Too often I want to scream until I lose my voice. Until all I hear is ringing. Until all I feel is air in my lungs.  Until all I see are stars Until all the thoughts are silenced. And all the words I can never say are lost to the wind.

Bleeding Out

The most terrifying thing is when you looked at me like I could heal you. And I did not know how to tell you that I had never pieced a broken heart together before.

All The Things I Never Told You

I spent my life folded between the pages of books...I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

Pencils and Prayers. Pens and Promises.

What Did You Leave Me With