Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Note: I’m not gonna bother spoilering this book or summarizing plot, because I could probably do that in two sentences.

Genre: Teen, love, dystopian, supernatural, weird, odd prose, torture, captivity, power, rebellion, environmental damage.

Recommended For: Teens?

Rating: 

Sentence: I sentence Tahereh Mafi to having an inability to escape run-on sentences, because she really hates proper sentences. Wow, that's a lot of sentence in one sentence.

Review: This book kept me on edge. On the edge of a blade slicing, cutting, tearing
tearing
tearing
   through the thrill and suspense. Impatience took a back seat and I let Mafi’s words drive me to the shattering end of the beginning.

This book is great. This book is tolerable. Despite Juliette’s odd prose and short, verb-ful sentences, it really does lack in plot. That isn’t to say I was not entertained, because I was. Juliette makes everything feel so much more intense than it actually is.

Like this:

My eyes snap to the page. I catch myself repeating the same line. This is no good. It’s a waste. Wasting away seconds. Minutes. The tick tick tocking echoes in my mind. Where was I?

That is me trying to figure out where I was in the book.

It’s almost a very crude type of language Mafi uses to keep you attentive. I swear I was reading with owl eyes. I need eye drops. In any case, overlooking the excessive metaphors, verbs, and lack of anything actually substantial to the plot of this series (other than intros, love interest, and, "spoiler," escape), it was fun annoying.

Yes, there was minimal excessive use of strike-through.