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12/05/19

I'm a very messy person. My desk always looks like something exploded there. You can find literally everything there - flashcards, barrettes, notes for the next posts for my blog or fanfiction ideas. Sometimes I can even come across the gate to Narnia! Well, I know it should be in my wardrobe but, as l've realised, nothing in my room stays where it should be.

Hello people! It’s my first review in English and I am soooo worried I’ll write something uncorrectly. That is why I would like to ask you to point out my mistakes in the comments. Okay, let’s start! 

First of all, I am basing this review on the notes I wrote in 2016, just after I had finished reading this book. I still want to post it though. Sorry for using synopsis from Good Reads but (update) I don’t remember anything from this book. For real. 

“ 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. “ 

This book isn’t very good, I have to admit it. However, it has something special, something that made me read it from cover to cover. I could’t stop reading and I finished it really fast. Well, it did not bring out strong emotions from me so I probably was reading it more to see how the book ends than for simple pleasure of reading. Everything in this book was just “okay”, nothing more. 

Unfortunately, this is another book that uses the ‘ love triangle’ motif. Seriously, I am so done with this motif. It’s literally everywhere! I probably would hate it less if the characters in this book weren’t so indifferent to me. Even Juliette- the main character, wasn’t irritating me ( usually every main character irritates me in some way) because I really didn’t care about her. I mean, even if she died on first pages I wouldn’t care. 

Warner resembles Jonathan from “The Mortal Instruments” series- he’s also a psychopath, he is also obsessed with a woman who hates him and he also tries to show her his world, what makes her hate him even more. If you think I cared about him, I did not. Another character indifferent to me. 

At last, Adam. He was just too perfect and that is why.... i think you know what I want to say. 

I doubt that I ever will read another books from this series. I’ve heard a lot of nice things about “ Shatter Me” and I have to say, I feel disappointed. 

My rating: 6/10 ( which is just “okay”) 

[picture of the review in Polish]