over the past two days i've had a lot of downtime at work and i decided to catch up on some of my reading. naturally, i couldn't read anything that was actually on my list (okay that's a partial lie, i read the spectacular now, which was actually spectacular, but more on that in a different post) so i ended up downloading shatter me by tahereh mafi.
in about two pages, i was hooked.
i haven't been this excited about a book series since i first read divergent back in 2011 (and i never finished that series).
something about the way mafi writes is just enthralling. she builds her world and her characters quickly--so fast that i thought that it couldn't be right, but it works. it draws you in from the get go, and then you want to stay and find out what happens in the final chapters.
for the first three-quarters of the book i was physically nervous for the two main characters. mafi was able to make me experience what her characters where experiencing, and for me, that's really rare.
the only complaint that i have about this book series (there are three books and two novellas which i have yet to read) is that one of the characters gets annoyingly stupid at the end. but that's just how that character was written, and i wouldn't ask to change it.
one of my friends who read the series complained that the characters changed in the third novel, but i didn't think that was the case. i read them in fairly rapid succession, and the progression of all the characters made sense about 98% of the time.
i would highly recommend this series, unless you don't like love triangles or ambiguous endings, because this novel has both. otherwise, it's a great and fast read.
have you read the books in the shatter me series? what did you think?
-em xx
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