Ignite Me ~Tahereh Mafi

With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn't know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won't keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world . . . but that's not all he wants with her.

Book Review:

The concluding novel to the Shatter Me trilogy was definitely not a disappointment. When I opened up to the first page, I just wanted to know how it was going to end, but as I continued, I never wanted it to end. I have fallen in love with these characters and this society. Mafi's writing makes you really believe that you have lived through the series with those characters, that they are your friends. I'm very upset that it is over. Every time I finish a series that I have invested so much into, I feel like a lost a part of myself, and I feel like that right now.

The beginning was great but the middle kind of dragged on I thought. I feel like more could have been done in the middle than was. In all reality there were scenes in the middle, that needed to happen, but more often than not, they were just page fillers.  

I probably would have given this book a 4.5 but because of how it ends, I'm giving it a 5. The love triangle that has been a main focus since the first book, ended perfectly. Juliette ends up with the right person, in my opinion anyway. He understands her and he put up with a lot while she was trying to figure out her own feelings. 

More explained in the discussion.

Pages: 416                                                                                                                                   Rate: 5

Book Discussion: SPOILERS:

So at the beginning, when Juliette wakes up, I was so scared of how she was going to handle it. I wasn't sure if she would retaliate before Warner could fill her in on what happened or not. At that point, I was mainly terrified for Warner. Thankfully, she listened to him, skeptically. That's when I started to realize how much she liked him. Mafi hinted at Juliette having feelings for Warner in the second book, but I wasn't sure how far that was going to go after he took off from Omega Point. 

When Kenji finds she and Warner at the sight of what used to be Omega Point?!!? Did anyone else want to scream and cry at the same time. I was so excited!! Their entire friendship was just so incredible throughout the entire series. They may have annoyed each other to no end sometimes but they were always friends first and last. That was another thing that I really loved about this novel in particular. We see so much more of their friendship than before. 

Adam, was an asshole in this novel. I understand that he had a right to be upset. She was falling for his half-brother, but they weren't really together anymore. Juliette kept pushing Adam away because she was scared of hurting him and I felt that their relationship ended a while before she started to like Warner, even as a friend. And she faught her feelings for Warner, for a very long time, because she didn't want to hurt Adam; yet, Adam responded like a completely different person than we had ever seen him be before. His initial reaction, though overly dramatic, I kind of expected, but how he acted afterward made me hate him. 

The end... Juliette finally kills Warner's, Adam's father. She finally takes over the Reestablishment. The world can finally go back to normal. But then I got scared again... everyone is dragging themselves out of the Battlefield so Juliette can see them, but Warner is no where to be seen. After everything that it took to get those two together, I was about ready to throw the book, and just then, he climbs up to where she is standing. I about died. 

Favorite Quote:

“I am no longer afraid of fear, and I will not let it rule me. Fear will learn to fear me.”

Destroy Me ~ Tahereh Mafi

Set after Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me and before Unravel Me, the spellbinding sequel, Destroy Me is a novella told from the perspective of Warner, the ruthless leader of Sector 45.

In Shatter Me, Juliette escaped from The Reestablishment by seducing Warner - and then putting a bullet in his shoulder. But as she'll learn in Destroy Me, Warner is not that easy to get rid of...

Back at the base and recovering from his near-fatal wound, Warner must do everything in his power to keep his soldiers in check and suppress any mention of a rebellion in the sector. Still as obsessed with Juliette as ever, his first priority is to find her, bring her back, and dispose of Adam and Kenji, the two traitors who helped her escape. But when Warner's father, the Supreme Commander of The Reestablishment, arrives to correct his son's mistakes, it's clear that he has much different plans for Juliette. Plans Warner simply cannot allow.

Book Review:

 Destroy Me has made me even more excited for Unravel Me. 

Even though this novella is supposed to make you feel sympathy for Warner, I just cant. I hate Warner. I still can't get passed how he treated Juliette and his soldiers in Shatter Me. Even though we learn of his childhood, I can't feel for him. The only person in this series so far that I hate more than Warner is his father who I hate as much as Umbridge (nasty, rude, feline loving monstrosity, worse than the villain of the series, Voldemort) in the Harry Potter series. 

I really enjoyed that this novel was told from Warner's perspective though. I enjoyed seeing what is going on at Sector 45 since Juliette has escaped. I also enjoyed the fact that Warner's life was so completely disrupted because as I said before I hate him, and therefore like to see him lose control and struggle. What I really enjoyed about this is that he is feeling something that he has never experienced before and his reaction to it is king of laughable.

Pages: 109                                                                                                  Rate: 4/5

Book Discussion: SPOILERS:

How can Warner be in love with Juliette? She has only ever expressed hatred, fear, and anger in his presence. To really be in love with someone don't you have to see them experience joy and love themselves. Plus she has blatantly told him that she hates him and all that he stands for. Also, before this he was an unfeeling bastard.

I do feel bad that Warner was abused emotionally and physically as a child by his parents, that he didn't have a loving home but neither did Juliette and she would never purposefully do anything to hurt anyone. That would be like saying all children of abuse grow up to be abusers. That simply isn't true. And I am so glad that Mafi made that distinction in her own way,  with her story. 

Now Warner's father is a complete ass. He is a horrible human being. He killed a women and her three children because her husband and their father was a traitor. What kind of person does that?! He's always played mind games with his son and those below him. And he blatantly tells his son, who almost died, that he is a disappointment. I HATE HIM!!

Favorite Quote:

  "And I've fallen.

So hard.

I've hit the ground. Gone right through it. Never in my life have I felt this. Nothing like this. I've felt shame and cowardice, weakness and strength. I've known terror and indifference, self-hate and general disgust. I've seen things that cannot be unseen. 

And yet I've known nothing like this terrible, horrible, paralyzing feeling. I feel crippled. Desperate and out of control. And it keeps getting worse. Every day I feel sick. Empty and somehow aching.

Love is a heartless bastard."