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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?
Books I've read
Series:
Series of Unfortunate Events Series (Lemony snicket )
Chronicles of Narnia (CS Lewis)
Uglies series (Scott Westerfeild)
Matched trilogy (Allie Condie)
The selection series + happily ever after (Keira Cass)
Twilight saga + life and death (Stephine Myer)
Delirium Series (Lauren Oliver)
Shadow children series (Haddix)
Divergent trilogy + four (Veronica Roth)
Legend trilogy (Marie Lu)
The lunar chronicles + Fairest (Marisa Meyers)
Fifty shades series (EL James)
The hunger games trilogy (Suzanne Collins)
Slated trilogy (Teri Terry)
The giver quartet (Louis Lowery)
The darkest powers (Kelly Armstrong)
Juliette chronicles/shatter me series (Teharah Mafi)
Destroy Me + Fracture Me (shatter me)
Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy (Lani Taylor)
The mortal instruments (Cassie Clare)
The infernal devices (ll)
The dark artifices (ll)
Shadowhunter academy + the shadowhunter codex+The bane CHRONICALS (ll)
Unwind Series (Neal Shusterman) Wake Series
Half Bad Series (Sally Green)
Duoligy:
If I stay + where she went (Gayle Forman)
Slammed + point of retreat (Coleen Hoover)
End of days + regenesis (Eric Walters)
This Dark Endevour+Such Wicked Intent (Kenneth Oppel)
Hold Me like a Breath+ Break Me Like A Promise
Incarceron + sappique (Catherine Fisher)
Single Books:
The host (Stephine Meyer)
Power Play (Eric Walters)
Chains (Laurie Halse Anderson)
How we fall (Kate Brauning)
Thirteen Reasons Why (Jay Asher)
Sins of the mother (Irene Kelly)
My heart and other black holes (Jasmine Warga)
Speechless (Hannah Harrington)
Eleanor and park (Rainbow Rowell)
November 9 (Coleen Hoover)
The girl with all the gifts (Mike Carey)
Dove arising (Karen Bao)
Red wolf (Jenifer Dance)
Enthralled (Kelly Armstrong, Melissa Marr and other authors)
Room (Emma donoghue)
What happened to goodbye (Sarah Dessen)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margret Atwood)
Half Brother (Kenneth Oppel)
Diary of Anna Frank
Brave New World
We are all Made of Molecules
Discontinued Books:
Red queen series (second book) (Victoria Aveyard)
Rule of three (first book) (Eric Walter)
You are mine (first book) (Janeal Falor)
Crewel World (first book)
Currently Reading:
Half Wild - Sally Green (Half Bad book#2)
And we are quotation marks, inverted and upside down, clinging to one another at the end of this life sentence. Trapped by lives we did not choose.
Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
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
Love is a heartless bastard
Tahereh Mafi, Destroy 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?
being a reader on tumblr and following a bunch of new blogs when you start or finish a new series...and find a new family...and get into a whole new slew of controversy...and solidify your opinions... it's beautiful...
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Me Thinking About Shadow Me Being Released Today
Who did it better? 007
Mind/ Emotion reading
Aaron Warner vs. Rhysand High Lord of the Night Court
I Wanna read the shatter me series really bad but like can someone PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME WHAT ORDER YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO READ IT IN CAUSE I AM SO FUCKING CONFUSED RN THE ONLY THING IK IS THAT SHATTER ME IS THE FIRST BOOK
Would anyone be interested in hearing what songs remind me of the Shatter Me series, specifically Warner?