Shatter Me Series by Tahereh Mafi

Sorry for my month long hiatus! So in the interest of catching up, I will be trying something different. I will condense the reiews of this trilogy into one post. We shall see how this goes. *note: This includes the three main books not the side novellas in other characters POV)*

Books: (and ISBN-13) 

Shatter Me 9780062085481

 Unravel Me: 9780062085535

 Ignite me :9780062085573

Average good reads rating (for each): 4.04 stars, 4.37 stars, 4.47 stars

  My Rating (general) : A generous...4 out of 5 pink grapefruits. (A 3 would probably be more accurate)

    

Okay this series has been getting a lot of buzz on goodreads lately. So of course, I had to see what all of the fuss was about. The story has a common YA theme, dystopian romance. Juliette as the power to kill with just her touch. Something i've alway thought of since the story of king Midas, what would it really be like to have an ability with just touch? It's not something you can control. Juliette spends most of the series denying her power and cowering in fear of herself. She is also haunted by her accidental murder of a little boy. I do understand where she comes from in her fear I would hate having this ability but Juliette spends an excessive amount of time crying bout her relationship while

 the world is turning to crap. 

    Speaking of these romantic issues, the dreaded love triangle! LORD! I'll admit, the love scene in book 3 had me swooning,but love triangles were old a long time ago. The only love triangle I really loved was Gayle + Katniss + Peeta. That is the one exception to the golden rule of mine; love triangles are extreme cliche. The only good thing about this Adam, Juliette, Warner pairing was that Mafi waited until mid- series to introduce the concept. In book one I was for sure 'team Adam' (I use quotes because I loathe the 'team blah blah' thing girls do but don't know what term to use instead) but as the series went on Adam turned out to be an annoying, jerky, hot head. Warner on the other hand went in the opposite direction. He went from insane dictator to an insecure, misunderstood teenage boy. So ha! Take that to people who say Young Adult books don't have character development. Unfortunately Adam and Warner seem to be the same person in terms of back story. (Then again I didn't read the books in both Adam and Warner's perspective: Fracture Me and Destroy Me) They both didn't have a mother, had an abusive father who *SPOILER ALERT* turned out to be the same guy, and went into military careers to 'escape'... and of course both fall madly in love with Juliette. 

         The synopsis of book 2 and 3 (Unravel and Ignite) seemed to talk about this 'war' between the Reestablishment and the Rebels but honestly, this 'war' was pretty much two battles. One of which Juliette passed out and didn't see and the other lasted about ten minutes and yayy the Rebels win and Juliette and Warner make out on top of a building and awww The End. But I was like.... what? Where was the war? That wasn't war. And Juliette decides to be ruler of this new society when she has 1) No military experience. 2) No clue about politics, economics, etc and 3) She's been in prison for the past 3 years, she has no idea what's been going on in this country. 

    Overall I thought this book was pretty 'meh'. There were bits I liked and bits I didn't but this series had a really strong fanbase so idk what am I missing here? Ah well, can't love them all can I? 

Thanks for Reading! -R

*Another side note! I'll have a 50 shades of Grey review up hopefully in a few days that i'm excited for! I'm on book 3. Aaaad I'll have book 1 of another series posted soon. Bye! :)