Day 21 of 30 day Reading Challenge- Shatter Me – Book Review

Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.

The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color.

The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war – and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now.

Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.

There’s so much hype on this book–I get to know about this book through Instagram and Tiktoks and Booktubes and so I was curious to read this book. If you have been following my blog for a while, you will know that I am not actually a fan of fantasy novels but I actually decided to give this genre a try.

The book belongs with Juliette who has an unusual power–whatever she touches, the person will die. Although it was an accident, she was locked up in a secluded room for 264 days until one day, another inmate was put into the same room as Juliette. The person is none other than Adam who Juliette remembered as a childhood friend. Then one day, Juliette and Adam were taken to Reestablishment headquarters where Werner wanted to make used of Juliette’s power. Juliette refused to help Werner and Adam and Juliette escape together only to join another organization that helps with the benefit of the world.

Surprisingly, I actually enjoyed reading this book. The story is told entirely from Juliette’s POV and so we get to see the inside of Juliette’s mind. There’s sort of a love triangle between Werner, Adam and Juliette which I think might follow up later in the series. I was drawn into the story and kind of felt like I was a part of the story with Juliette and Adam. As a matter of fact, I am curious and cannot wait to read the next book in the series. However, one bad thing is I didn’t really like Juliette much as I felt she was slightly a bit whiny in my opinion but that would just be me. I want to read more about Warner and hope to come across him later in the series. Overall this book worth four stars.