There’s a palpable heat between our bodies, and her eyes are big and beautiful, blue green. She looks up at me then, and I realize, with a thrill, how close we are. Before we dive in, if you are only interested in my general thoughts, feel free to skip to the bottom of my review. It’s more of a necessary filler book than the last four have been, but damn, if there’s anyone who knows how to write a necessary filler book, it’s definitely Tahereh Mafi. The fourth book completely wrecked me when it was released last year, and now, this one has too.

It took me partway through Unravel Me for this series to become one of my favourites, but then it did, and to this day, it still is. I first read the Shatter Me series (when it was still a trilogy) a few years ago, at the end of 2015/beginning of 2016. And it’s not insane to imagine that sometimes even horrible people are searching for a way out of their own darkness. None of us enjoyed being taught to torture before we could even drive. And just because we’ve been trained to be mercenaries doesn’t mean we like it. We, on the other hand, were forced to be. But the thing no one seems to understand is that our parents chose to be homicidal maniacs.

Our parents are homicidal maniacs intent on ruling the world that part is true. I know you all think the children of the supreme commanders are a bunch of carefree, amoral psychopaths, happy to be the military robots our parents wanted us to be, but nothing is ever that straightforward. She’s been slowly returning our minds to us, giving back what our parents once stole.

She wants us to stand up, fight, save humanity. Here we go, enjoy!Įmmaline thinks we’re the last hope for the world. The next several reviews will be YA/NA books. As usual, I actually finished this book literally a couple of days after it came out back in April-but I was so behind on my reviews, and as I’ve said like three hundred times, I like to review books in the order that I read them (okay I’m pretty sure I’ve said this in every single review I’ve made so far so I’ll try to stop repeating myself).

Tahereh mafi defy me