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mobi î doc Shatter Me 9780062085481 ☆ Tahereh Mafi ☆ [Ebook] ➢ Shatter Me By Tahereh Mafi – Gym-apparel.co.uk I have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI'm than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 daysThe last time she I have a curseI have a giftI am a monsterI'm than humanMy touch is lethalMy touch is powerI am their weaponI will fight backJuliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly daysThe last time she did it was an accident but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal As long a This is not a dystopia it is a romance This is not a novel it is a collection of similes and metaphors most of which do not make sense I originally gave Shatter Me two stars because that's my sort of kneejerk reaction to books I don't like but after thinking it over for a while I can't recall anything positive about it that would justify a rating of than one starYou're probably assuming correctly that I went into this book with low expectations This is completely true Any so called dystopia with a runway model on the front cover leaves me feeling sceptical However I was also prepared to allow myself to be surprised; a lot of my friends loved this and one of the biggest criticisms didn't actually bother me purple prose I think there's a fine line in writing between the pretty and the purplish and different readers will define it in their own way For example some reviewers thought that Lips Touch Three Times was just a mess of bloated purple prose whereas I thought it was one of the most beautiful books I read last year I have a high tolerance level for flowery writing ButShatter Me's numerous metaphors similes and endless descriptions just didn't make sense What is this Hate looks like everybody else until it smiles Until it spins around and lies with lips and teeth carved into semblance of something too passive to punchI just WHAT This is one example floating around in there but every second sentence is like this That's not even mentioning the annoying strike outs Trust me no really trust me I thought people were being overly picky when they said the crossed out sentences were annoying I actually thought it sounded interesting unusual especially because the whole thing is meant to be written in a notebook and I cross stuff out in mine all the time But you have no idea how bloody annoying this is to read All the effin' time People didn't exaggerate it will most likely drive you crazyHowever there was one thing that for me was even annoying than the descriptions the similes the strikes and that was the stupid repetition thing and then and then and then Again if it had been used once or sparingly even then it wouldn't be so bad I may have thought it was an interesting literary techniue But Shatter Me had way way way too much of everything see what I did thereAnd story What story sigh It's about time we just opened up an entirely new genre called Dystopian Romance or alternatively Romantic Dystopia though I don't wish to be pessimistic I'm pretty sure half the new releases of 2012 will make it into that category If there was a story then it drowned amidst the waves of overenthusiastic and flowery prose This reminded me of Article 5 in that the dystopia was there to make the romance interesting One was certainly there to complement the other but it was the wrong way aroundAlso kissing when you are fleeing for your lives I'm sure this is not the correct way of things right And yet it occurs in way too many young adult books I'm like run run run but the characters are too busy swapping saliva I must be old fashioned in my thinking that staying alive is kinda importantThere are a lot of things that had they been there could have convinced me to up this to two stars One star ratings make me feel sucky But I'm sorry guys I wasn't even entertained The beginning was intriguing but there was so little plot beyond the romance that it uickly became tedious I hated the prose I felt nothing either way for the characters this series ends here for me
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S she doesn’t hurt anyone else no one really cares The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a year old girl Diseases are destroying the population food is hard to find birds don’t fly any and the clouds are the wrong colorThe Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things so I deserve a medal for finishing this bookLike the Olympic gold medal in the Anti DNF Games people Rant AheadIt took me three months to finish this bookTHREE Not 3 Miss MafiNow normally I would have tossed this book out the window like an overwrought Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper being that I AM the ueen of the heartless page 15 DNF; however I find that I have a harder time DNFing something when I am 1 Reading a physical copy as opposed to a digital copy and 2 When I already OWN books two and three and am hoping to FUCK I didn't waste my money That said this book annoyed me on several different levels 1 Juliette's power or glitch or whatever the hell it is is never fully explained in detail It's skirted around in a mass of overwrought metaphors and complete bullshit 2 Said overwrought metaphors3 The writing itself in general Despite having a degree in English and Literature I am usually pretty easygoing about typos and grammar especially when it comes to self published stuff I mean just LOOK at the slang and vernacular I use in my reviews I am NOT a hard ass about this stuff HOWEVERWhen I am holding a professionally published FINISHED copy of a mass produced book and it contains strikeouts sentences starting in lowercase letters and numbers one through ten incorrectly placed in number form eg Juliette has 2 hands and 0 1 brain my inner grammar maven's granny panties get twisted so far up her ass it's impossible to focus I mean I GET that this was all a stylistic choice etc That the sporadic all over the place SHITTY sentence structure was supposed to reflect Juliette's instability or whatever the fuck it was supposed to reflect but I just can't get behind starting a sentence with 4 my friends Add to that the insta love between Juliette and Adam and the spindly world building of a completely unclear and poorly wrought dystopian society and you have a wreck of a book that merely has a pretty cover Now I am left with the crushing decision of whether or not I try book two since I like an idiot already bought it or if I just march the whole trilogy down to my favorite used book store and hope the fact that this series is about to have a new book published gets me top dollar Decisions decisions
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Shatter MeThey threw Juliette in a cell Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind Maybe Juliette is than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body Maybe she’s exactly what they need right nowJuliette has to make a choice Be a weapon Or be a warrio Shatter Me otherwise known as When Creative Writing Class Goes WrongI am all for experimental writing for stretching your abilities and trying to find fresh ways to express ideas Occasionally you end up with genius but most of the time you result in pretentious awkward prose that stick in the proverbial craw of readers This book is that writing There are plenty of examples that I can give as evidence – but I shall stick with two relatively short ones“His eyes scan the silhouette of my structure and the slow motion makes my heart race I catch the rose petals as they fall from my cheeks as they float around the frame of my body as they cover me in something that feels like the absence of courage”The absence of courage Are you fucking kidding me We have a word for that I believe that is almost the dictionary definition of the word coward I would explain what was wrong with the rest of the paragraph too but I want to keep this review to a 10000 word thesis at max“I always wonder about raindropsI wonder about how they’re always falling down tripping over their own feet breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end”rightI get artistically that Mafi wanted to expose her readers to the mind of a girl whose sanity is fragile and uestionable and that she’s trying to show this through the prose I don’t think the effect works or is done particularly well I think the workings of a troubled mind would result in than bad analogies and a bunch of numbers Despite the fact that Juliette’s backstory and premise is interesting we still end up with the same mundane cookie cutter heroine that can be seen in the vast majority of Young Adult literature The only thing insane about this novel is how predictable and trite it is It would not be completely unreasonable to uestion my sanity in regards to reading Young Adult novelsWhen are popular young adult authors going to provide to the characterization of their main protagonists than Irresistible uniue outsider in love with a guyCan’t male protagonists have other ualities than in love with main character hot tragic backstory to illicit excessive broodingThe entire premise of Shatter Me promised something different and new Yet we still end up with the same bland old fareThe plot and pacing is awkward and cumbersome Even when situations are supposed to be tense there is a sense of boredom and predictability I feel sad that this is yet again another disappointing dystopian Young Adult novel that will join its sisters in the Mediocre Hall of I Can’t Be StuffedBut if you do decide to visit at least you get a free shirt One last thing view spoiler– the ending That pissed me off the most Xavier’s school for Mutants in Rebellion of the Oppressive Dystopian Régime FML And the suit using that word loosely that they provide for her at the end Yeah that’s great Doesn’t EVERY woman look at this suit and just say to themselves “Yes I can’t wait to wear this This doesn’t objectify me as a woman degrade me as a human being and make an embarrassment out of everyone involved Not At AllIt’s like the mutant version of fantasy armour for women And as we all know Women’s armour sucks” hide spoiler