Shatter Me - Impressions

Well Readers! I'm back, and have a giant pile of books to go through and review. Today I'm bringing my initial impressions of a book that has been getting TONS of press, including optioned movie rights months before it was even available in stores! Today is the release date, so it felt good to start my review of it!


Book: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Publisher: HarperCollins (November 15, 2011)
The book was purchased by me for review purposes, I still don't blog enough to get ARCs or early releases.

From the Publisher:
"You can't touch me," I whisper.

I'm lying, is what I don't tell him.

He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him.

But things happen when people touch me.

Strange things.

Bad things.

No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon.

But Juliette has plans of her own.

After a lifetime without freedom, she's finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time—and to find a future with the one boy she thought she'd lost forever.


Dust Jacket Impressions:Well, I first heard about this book a few months ago, and since then it has steadily been getting more and more press. When I read the publisher's blurb I was intrigued, it sounds like X-men meets dystopian literature, therefore putting it to the top of my To-Read list when it released.

I don't know what is going on with the cover, I personally think it looks ridiculous, it looks more like a teen socialite book than a book about a girl with mysterious powers. I personally feel I'm going to be reading a book about prom, over a book with a dystopian feel. Quite frankly, had I just seen the book on a shelf and not heard about it, I never would have picked it out as something that interested me. Yes, I did judge this book by it's cover, thankfully I learned it was not a book about prom, or homecoming, or a coming out party for a New York socialite, but a book about a young girl who's touch can kill (far more interesting).

So, it look's like our main character is Juliette, if she happens to poison herself in the book, or stab herself over a boy, I will be sorely disappointed. I also hope that her love interest is not named Romeo. If she decides to change her name during the course of the book I also hope it does not change to Rogue. Yes, I made passes at both William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliette, and X-Men, those are the huge vibes I got from reading the book (Also, I somehow managed to spell Shakespeare wrong when I first typed this, blogger fail).

I'm hoping Juliette turns out to be a strong woman and not a dead fish, and that the book focuses more on her adventure in possibly saving the world and taking down whatever evil government is around, than her romance. I hope I am right readers, I don't want to run into zomgtrueloveforever in the book. Life doesn't happen that way, and although it is a marvelous thing to imagine in a perfect world we will all find our prince fall in love at first site then live our our lives, it just doesn't. Something that bothers me in a lot of YA is the zomgtrueloveforever trap. I suppose I could take it though, if Juliette is a strong character, and doesn't fall all over herself and 'woe is me' attitude, and she uses whatever cool power she has, and kicks butt... We shall see! I have high hopes for a book labeled as fodder for those waiting for The Hunger Games movie, and a book receiving so much buzz. Also, I WANT to love it, Tahereh Mafi is such a wonderful person, and tries to talk to as many of her fans as possible through Twitter, I adore her for that.

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