#Shatter me summary age rating series
I do realise that they rereleased the entire series with Electric Monkey and changed the font for all the books, but why wasn’t it also available from the same publisher as the hardcover, that had the previously established font still? I will never understand certain decisions …įazit: 4/5 stars! Interesting continuation of one of my favourite series. On a final side rant, I am really sad that the font for the paperback was changed.
There’s also a cruel cliffhanger, so consider yourself warned! Again, it felt like a set-up for the future the majority of the time. I didn’t find much of the plot surprising, but … maybe that’s just me? There was definitely A LOT happening without much happening at all at the same time. It was an incredibly fast read and interesting to see alternating chapters from Warner and Juliette’s POV. Overall, Restore Me was mostly an introduction of what these new books would be about.
I don’t really want to talk about anyone by name just so you get to meet them all by yourself and can form your own opinion, but I have a weird trust for that person and hope they’ll continue to play an important role. This book also introduced some new characters and I love, love, love one of them especially and am intrigued, to say the least, about the others. But the way he was brought up and plain had to survive sometimes, I just don’t think most of what he did was really news to anyone (except J apparently). Do I condone everything he did and feel like he shouldn’t suffer any repercussions? No. There are a lot of things that surface from his past and I just think that he was judged unfairly sometimes. At first, I struggled with Warner’s perspective a little bit, feeling quite detached from his narration style, but by the end, I think I often felt more with him than with Juliette. Obviously, Kenji is still my most favourite person in the entire series (and I honestly don’t think that will ever change). They kept tiptoeing around each other, assuming things that sometimes weren’t even true or just plain exaggerating for … drama? I don’t even know.Īs much as I just complained, it was nice to have the old gang back.
Also, I felt myself being far more impatient with the characters than I used to be, annoyed at their utter lack of communication. I think that’s really a shame, because the writing style is what made the original trilogy so special to me and made me want to revisit it time and time again. Something about the writing style has changed and didn’t feel as enchanting and unique as it used to. It took me quite a while until I was really back in that world. I wish I could say this book was everything I had dreamed of, but that would be the overstatement of the year. I think Tahereh Mafi managed to truly create another plot element that made sense to the history of the characters and at least I wasn’t disappointed in that area. Obviously there was room for more to tell, but I was a little worried about whether the things to come were really necessary and afraid that they might change my feelings towards characters I love. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adored the original Shatter Me trilogy, but they were tied up nice enough for me. When I first heard the announcement for the new additions to the series, I was both super excited and dreaded their release at the same time. Definitely stay on the lookout for her review in the near future! Restore Me is the continuation of the Shatter Me series (I once talked about it way, way back in the day and you can read that post here) and I got to read it with my very good friend Marie and Hurricane Books. CW: anxiety, panic attacks, transphobia, recollections of abuse, depression, mention of suicide