Shatter Me
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4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
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- £5.99
Publisher Description
OVER 8 MILLION COPIES SOLD. THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION!
"Addictive, intense, and oozing with romance” Lauren Kate, Fallen
"Dangerous, sexy, romantic and intense! Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures
“My favourite series of all time” Goodreads review
“Perfection” TikTok review
Powerless meets A Court of Thorns and Roses in this stunningly romantic dystopian YA fantasy.
A fragile young teenage girl is held captive.
Locked in a cell by The Reestablishment – a harsh dictatorship in charge of a crumbling world. This is no ordinary teenager. Juliette is a threat to The Reestablishment's power. A touch from her can kill – one touch is all it takes.
But not only is she a threat, she is potentially the most powerful weapon they could have. Juliette has never fought for herself before but when she’s reunited with the one person who ever cared about her, the depth of the emotion and the power within her become explosive …
Reviews
"Addictive, intense, and oozing with romance. I’m envious. I couldn’t put it down.…', – Lauren Kate, New York Times bestselling author of Fallen
Dangerous, sexy, romantic and intense. I dare you to stop reading! – Kami Garcia, author of bestselling Beautiful Creatures series
“My favourite series of all time” Goodreads review
“Perfection” TikTok review
About the author
Tahereh Mafi is the New York Times bestselling author of the Shatter Me series which has been published in over 30 languages around the world. She was born in a small city somewhere in Connecticut and currently resides in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, Ransom Riggs, fellow bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, and their young daughter. She can usually be found overcaffeinated and stuck in a book.
Follow her on Instagram @TaherehMafi
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
In the first instalment of Tahereh Mafi’s hugely successful series, we are introduced to Juliette Ferrars, who possesses an infamous killer touch and is imprisoned due to the danger she poses to the Reestablishment (dictators in charge of this dystopian world). Sad, self-conscious and deeply lonely, Mafi’s unique prose conveys her heroine’s fragile and troubled state of mind and deep mistrust of the world around her. But as her fight continues, she begins to realise that her weakness is, in fact, her strength—and that she needs to begin to trust herself to change her circumstances. Powerfully and evocatively written, Shatter Me is a lyrical tale of a young woman who comes to fight for the justice she seeks.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Mafi combines a psychological opener with an action-adventure denouement in her YA debut, and the result is a page-turner with a slightly split personality. Juliette Ferrars is 17 and cannot remember a loving touch; indeed, after 264 days in solitary confinement, she can barely remember human contact. Then a boy is shoved into her cell, and her world changes. Just as she begins to trust Adam, guards burst in and march them off to the commandant. Juliette discovers Adam is really a soldier of the Reestablishment, a totalitarian regime that wants to use Juliette because her touch can kill. Juliette wants to get far away from anyone she can hurt or who can hurt her though she can't help hoping that, somehow, Adam might not fall in either of those categories. Mafi doesn't escape some rookie pitfalls; descriptions like "fifteen thousand feelings of disbelief hole-punched in my heart" strain after lyricism, and proof that the divided plot can be brought to a satisfying conclusion must await later installments. Nevertheless, this is a gripping read from an author who's not afraid to take risks. Ages 14 up.
Customer Reviews
Better than expected
I was a bit nervous about reading this book due to the mixed reviews on YouTube and Goodreads, but I’m so happy I finally decided to take the plunge. This reminded me of Hunger Games and X-Men mixed with a psychological analysis of a 17-year-old teenager. As a side note: this book went from 4 to 5 stars in the last 10%. I will be continuing with the series.
One of the BEST series I have ever read
This was such a good read and I finished the series it was actually pretty nice and the plot twists were amazing and Juliette…come on u can’t call her a pick me if you haven’t read the whole series and she has such trauma and she literally spend HALF A YEAR locked in solitary confinement 5⭐️ for me 🌸
It shattered the little mental health I had left
Aaron needs to come down, and Juliette needs to stop being so delusional, but over all is a good book, even tho it had me question why I chose to read it multiple times and if I should burn my phone down in certain moments, don’t think you should read it if you are mentally unstable like Juliette