Shatter me summary age rating full#
Shatter me summary age rating series#

Shatter me summary age rating series#

Shatter Me is a YA dystopian series centering around a girl named Juliette. I have yet to read the last three books and I don’t remember much of the earlier books.

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Alice and her family are white.In full disclosure, it’s been a really long time since I read the the first batch of Shatter Me books.įor those unaware, Mafi wrote the first three books and then there was a very large gap before she wrote Books 4-6. Though at times feeling a bit rushed, Alice’s engaging contemporary perspective neatly frames Adalyn’s immersive, heartbreaking story as it slowly unfolds-providing an important history lesson as well as a framework for discussing depression. The girls’ stories parallel one another in significant ways: Each has a romance with a young Frenchman, each has a parent struggling with depression, and each must consider the lengths she would go to protect those she loves. Chapters alternate between Alice’s and Adalyn’s voices, narrating Adalyn’s experience as a French Christian of the Nazi occupation and Alice’s attempts to understand what happened after the war. What she eventually learns both shocks and heals her family. The fully furnished apartment has clearly been neglected for decades and raises more questions than it answers: Why didn’t Gram talk about her childhood? Who is the second girl in the photos throughout the apartment? Why didn’t Gram’s family return there after the war? Alice’s father is reluctant to discuss anything that might upset Alice’s mother, who’s still reeling from her mother’s death, so Alice decides to find answers on her own. Over half a century later, Alice, Chloe’s 16-year-old American granddaughter, has just inherited her childhood home in Paris. Passionate, impulsive Chloe and her popular older sister, Adalyn, were inseparable-until the Nazis invaded France in 1940 and Adalyn started keeping secrets. Part cautionary tale, part juicy love story, this will appeal to action and adventure fans who aren't yet sick of the genre. My eyebrows are dangling from the ceiling.” For all of her independence and superpowers, Juliette never moves beyond her role as a pawn in someone else’s schemes. Overreliance on metaphor to express Juliette’s jaw-dropping surprise wears thin: “My mouth is sitting on my kneecaps. Fast-paced action scenes convey imminent danger vividly, but there’s little sense of a broader world here. The ending falls flat as the plot devolves into comic-book territory. But Adam belongs to a resistance movement he helps Juliette escape to their stronghold, where she finds that she’s not the only one with superhuman abilities. Unfortunately, he’s a soldier under orders from Warner, a power-hungry 19-year-old. Adam, it turns out, is immune to her deadly touch. After months of isolation, her captors suddenly give her a cellmate-Adam, a drop-dead gorgeous guy. Juliette’s journal holds her tortured thoughts in an attempt to repress memories of the horrific act that landed her in a cell.

Juliette was torn from her home and thrown into an asylum by The Reestablishment, a militaristic regime in control since an environmental catastrophe left society in ruins. Well, most people are probably reading these books for Warner anyway.Ī dystopic thriller joins the crowded shelves but doesn't distinguish itself. After all this, the end is all too easy, for characters anyway. A high page count gives the novel physical if not psychological weight and includes such padding as Juliette’s lengthy musings on a bar of soap. Many of the most interesting and difficult moments, such as a conversation between Adam and Warner about their parentage, are glossed over in favor of the repetitive sharing of emotions. Broad strokes destroy any complexity, mystery or tension in the love triangle. It’s even easier after Juliette reunites with the Omega Point survivors, finds Adam and gets a taste of his new, jerk personality. Romancing Warner is easy: Warner’s early, frequent, lengthy monologues explain how Juliette misinterpreted nearly every villainous thing Warner has ever done. But first, she must romance Warner and find out what’s become of her Omega Point friends. In a refrain familiar to the series’ readers, Juliette again vows to fight back, for real this time, and to destroy the Reestablishment. Juliette’s barely escaped death at the hands of Warner’s father, and she’s rescued and hidden by Warner on the base.

Unravel Me (2013) left the resistance thoroughly trounced. Fighting an oppressive regime is an afterthought in this conclusion to Mafi’s romantic trilogy.