• Shatter Me

  • By: Tahereh Mafi
  • Narrated by: Kate Simses
  • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (3,639 ratings)

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Shatter Me

By: Tahereh Mafi
Narrated by: Kate Simses
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Publisher's summary

"You can't touch me," I whisper. I'm lying, is what I don't tell him. He can touch me, is what I'll never tell him. But things happen when people touch me. Strange things. Bad things.

No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal, but The Reestablishment has plans for her. Plans to use her as a weapon.

But Juliette has plans of her own. After a lifetime without freedom, she's finally discovering a strength to fight back for the very first time - and to find a future with the one boy she thought she'd lost forever.

©2011 Tahereh Mafi (P)2011 HarperCollins Publishers

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Different and Engaging

Listened for Fun (Audible)
Overall Rating: 3.75
Story Rating: 3.50
Character Rating: 4.00

Audio Rating: 4.00 (Not part of the overall rating)

Part 1 of the Series Review


First Thought when Finished: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi was different, interesting, and engaging! Bring me the next one please!

Part 1 Thoughts:

I picked up Shatter Me for 2 reasons:

1: Most of my friends (even the non-YA readers like myself) enjoyed it
2: It was on sale at Audible

I have to say that overall I found the world different, interesting, and engaging. The story was slow to start but once it got moving, I was invested. The world building was fantastic! I could picture the world in my mind's eye and while I have no desire to travel there, had no problem picturing the characters maneuvering around. The characters are what drew me to the story though. I thought Juliette was equal parts fascinating and damaged. Her life experiences made her both wise and foolish. I was intrigued by Warner and what made him tick. Was he just this bad ass nut case that was truly evil or is there more there? Adam was a little one dimensional to me but he did fulfill an important role: he gave Juliette someone to count on. That role is significant because she could begin to bloom. The pacing and action were a little uneven in the beginning but once the story hit it's stride the speed, urgency, and desperation of the characters was on par with the action. For a first book in a trilogy, it was fantastic!

Audio Thoughts:

Narrated By Kate Simses / Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins


This is the first book I have listened too narrated by Kate. I thought she did a great job with Juliette, Adam, and Warner. I was a little surprised there weren't two narrators for this book (as the guys got as much page time as Juliette) but Kate (for the most part) pulled it off pretty well.

Final Thoughts: Interesting and engaging I will be continuing this series.

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Not compelled to read the next one

Any additional comments?

Had I done the review half or even three quarters of the way through, it would have been a very different one. The ending just does not sit well with the rest of the book, making me uninterested in the sequel.

A sort of X-men meets Divergent, I enjoyed the narration, the beautiful writing and the book's premise. However, the book somehow travels from the inner monologue of a solitary confinement prisoner to a total reproduction of X-men, right down to a Professor Xavier clone and a "school for the gifted". Somehow the narrative just couldn't make that massive shift believable.

While it did not work for me, the writing style, especially in the first chapters is unique and really quite beautiful.

The narration performance was really very good and a great match for the book.

So, not for me, but not a bad listen.

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I absolutely loved this story!

Where does Shatter Me rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

It was AWESOME! I couldn't put it down....Tahereh Mafi is going on my favorite author list!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Shatter Me?

When Juliette finds out she can touch Adam...she feels alive again...she deserved it!

What about Kate Simses’s performance did you like?

I love Kate...she has such a soothing sweet voice and her acting ability is incredible!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

This would be a fascinating movie,,, Her touch is deadly, her love eternal!

Any additional comments?

This book put me through a huge range of emotions, it was quite the racy love story for a YA novel...and I couldn't put it down...I loved everything about it, and am reading book 2 immediately! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Great initial voice, devolves a bit toward the end

What made the experience of listening to Shatter Me the most enjoyable?

I actually really liked the weird scratching sound -- as if she were scratching out her own thoughts with her pencil. It got less and less throughout the book, which seemed appropriate, but might have happened a touch too fast for my taste.

What was one of the most memorable moments of Shatter Me?

I really enjoyed her initial fixation on the bird in flight. I don't know what the significance is, and I'm a little afraid to find out, but her focus on the bird stuck with me.

Which scene was your favorite?

I definitely enjoyed her shooting of the bad guy with his own gun. Not enough heroines take advantage of situations like that.

Any additional comments?

The below is a critique of things I did not like about this book. In spite of that, however, I DID enjoy it all the way through, and I will be getting the second one. POSSIBLE SPOILERS BELOW!I loved the first third of this book. I was definitely okay with the second third. The final third...devolved into X-Men fanfiction, as far as I can tell. Not that I'm averse to fanfiction -- I write some myself that I hope to make original enough for publication one day. But it seems to me that our heroine is obviously Rogue, and the leader of the resistance moves things with his mind.... Also, if she's spent her whole life not touching people, you'd think that picking up a toddler would NOT be her first instinct. WHY did her parents not arm her with gloves immediately? Why is a zippered jumpsuit in shiny purple fabric necessary, when it seems that a turtleneck and jeans would do? This is a dystopian society -- do they really have the time and resources in the resistance base to make up special jumpsuits for newcomers? Also, it bugs me a bit that we find out so quickly that both her love interest AND her stalker are immune to her. I hope we find that a few other people are immune too -- that would make them less coincidentally special. I guess what bothers me most is that I completely did not see the end of this book coming. I mean, we start out in a dystopian mental institution, and we get a great feel for the brokeness of the society from there. Our heroine, while she might not have been crazy to start, is clearly headed in that direction. Then, all of the sudden, we discover she's wanted as a weapon by this twisted-tin-god-dictator-guy. Okay, fine, she doesn't want to hurt anyone, but she has to play along or her sudden love interest will get hurt. I can roll with this. And the next sequence makes sense too. Heck, even being taken to a rebellion place makes sense from there! But then the whole tone of the book changes, and it's like "Welcome to the school of misfits, where you will feel at home for the first time ever!" I grant that she did resist trusting for a bit, but the whole tone of the book changes, and it left me a little confused and disappointed.All that aside, I still recommend this book. The initial voice is unique and fabulous. The rest of the story is certainly entertaining, and the world setup is relatively convincing. Overall, decent story telling.

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Great Book!

the writer is very descriptive with feelings, sometimes too much. but honestly couldn't get enough of the book!!!!

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Was this written by a human?

I enjoyed it, kinda? but ... the prose was bad to the point where I thought it was written by an AI, The, many times nonsensical, metaphors keep repeating to where if I take out all the flowery language the book would be less than an hour long.

Calling anything here science fiction is an insult to science, The ideas in the book have no root in reality, and I don't mean the off brand X-men but the way that the world works with tracking serums and an, at best alien, human behavior.

Both main characters are horrible people, incredibly mean to someone who saved their lives and spared the love interest's little brother some trauma. They keep repeating how they both want to snap the guy's neck, and both of them are wearing the guy's clothes which he lent to them because they had none of their own.

Brilliant for 12 y olds I guess, however the most fun I had with it was texting my bf all the 'brilliant' romantic metaphors like 'my heart is an ice cold stick of butter melting on a hot summers' day.' No wish to continue the series, but wishing the author well, if they are a human.

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Shatter Me

Enjoyed this read so much that I brought the rest of the series. This was my first dystopia read, I didn't think I would enjoy it, but I love it. I love the characters in this story can't wait to see how it ends. I hope Juliette ends up happy and loved.

The only thing I hate is I haven't been able to find a physical copy the novellas for this series.

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Best Audiobook Ever

I adored this talented speaker and stunning story win win! I’m a huge reader but am so glad I opted for audio given how poetic the style of this book is! Can’t wait to listen to the other books in this series

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I couldn’t get through the voice acting

The story was interesting but the voice I just couldn’t sit through, it was a little
too dramatic for my taste.

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the struggle is real

I really struggled to finish this title. The heroine is a mindless, overdramatic girl who repeats, repeats, repeats words three times so often that it became hilarious. I won't be reading anymore of these books- it would just be too painful.

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