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Books = art ❣️❣️
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Nazeera: Do you want to play 20 Questions?
Kenji: Sure!
Nazeera: What's your favorite color?
Kenji, laser-fucking-focused: Triangle. Do you love me?
Juliette: If you kill a killer, the number of killers in the world stays the same.
Kenji: *Eating a sandwich* Kill two
Aaron: Love, you are going to hate yourself in the morning if you stay up any later.
Juliette, deliriously drunk, w/ a freshly shaved head: Jokes on you! I’m gonna hate myself in the morning regardless!
Aaron: That is insane! You would get sick!
Kenji: I’m not saying you wouldn’t get sick, I’m just saying every arrangement is technically an edible arrangement!!
Aaron: Juliette is playing hard to get.
Aaron: Little does she know, I'm a master at playing hard to get rid of.
Kenji: Can I bother you for a second?
Aaron: You're always bothering me, but go ahead.
Kenji: Would you please not Adam this into a worse situation than it already is?
Adam: Hold on, did you just use my name as a verb?
POV Aaron Warner's eyes but Aaron’s is green.
Don't stop looking into my eyes while I choke you with my hands
give me your favourite song.
give me your best melody,
give me your beloved tune
give me that one bridge
which pulls at your heartstrings and
you feel like you can breathe again.
give me the lyric you'll have tattooed on yourself
give me the band you will cry for
give me the piano note you'll spend nights trying to perfect
just give me your favourite song.
give me your favourite song.
learn it with me.
dance to it with me.
dream for it with me.
cry for it with me.
make me your favourite song.
- hy, 2021.
friendly reminder that Juliette had the same reaction when she thought a child was hurt as she did when she thought Adam was hurt. Now what does that say about Adam
Sticks and stones keep breaking my bones but these words, these words will kill me. Shatter Me Trilogy ~ Tahereh Mafi
I'm oxygen and he's dying to breathe.
Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me
I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend... ...I want to convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.
Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
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
What in the World: How to read the ‘Shatter Me Series’
Book 1: Shatter Me
Novela 1.5: Destroy Me
Book 2: Unravel Me
Novela 2.5: Fracture Me
Book 3: Ignite Me
Book 4: Restore Me
Book 4.5: Shadow Me March 5, 2019
Book 5: Defy Me April 2019
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them
Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me
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?
wait...did I just get through 3 whole YA fantasy novels in the same series without someone important dying (and staying dead)...what is this feeling? You can write a YA book without killing someone I love? My world is altered...I have been lied to...all these authors causing me unnecessary pain--I--
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Me Thinking About Shadow Me Being Released Today