The gripping fifth installment in the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shatter Me series. Both audible narrators are great, it’s easy to know when the characters are changing by the change is accent or pitch of their voices. I always knew that he can be sweet and sexy so I was glad we eventually got to experience that side of him. I love that even when you think you know where Tahereh is taking the story she complete shocks and surprises you with the direction she does go in.

I was so excited that this book was set in New Zealand, but we literally didn’t get a single description of it other than the brief time she was on a balcony, which was told in a flashback. And even though in here it all tied up nicely for a change I still have quite a lot of mixed feelings about it all. Next thing Warner knows he is waking up in the operating table, and he grabs a syringe, when Max comes in.A thrilling, high-stakes saga of self-discovery and forbidden love, the Shatter Me series is a must-read for fans of dystopian young adult literature - or any literature! I know that all hell is going to break loose as soon as I open “Imagine Me” and I’m so scared of reading what will happen. The ending was so surreal that I was having second thoughts if it was really that good or the author was just saving the heartache for the final book. Narrated by Juliette, Warner, and Kenji Kishimoto, this gripping novel will leave readers hungry for Imagine Me , the sixth novel in the series. The rest of the Omega Point gang are still stuck in sector 45 whereas Warner and Juliette have been kidnapped.

Tom Cruise has performed his own stunts for Mission Impossible 2, defying warnings from professionals. Warner deciding so quickly that he likes the name Ella more and he wants to default to that with no transition just felt so off. Particularly since 90% of Juliette and Warner’s chapters for the first half of the book were flashbacks. I will say it was super hard to trust Nazira when I first met her and the suspicions were still prevalent in this book but it was all for good reason, I think.I enjoyed the first 3 books of the series but was wondering if reading the last 2 are worth it bc they r so different from the first 3. Warner sits in the dark cell for two weeks, being fed poisoned bread made to muddle his thoughts, but he quickly realizes that he is in Oceania, and also is smart to calculate how long he can go without food before he completely weakens.

The book did not progress as I hoped and it has left me thinking on whether the Shatter Me series should have stayed a trilogy.And she was nothing to them just an experiment and they never ever treated her and Emmaline as human. Usually, warnette lines are iconic and meaningful, but I could actually compile a list of lines they say to each other in heated or passionate or cute moments that completely ruined the mood for me because they were so cheesy or typical or blah. However there was too much of it and there needed to be something else running in the background to give the book a lot more structure. In his mind, memories surface of the many times he has met Ella and Juliette, and he realizes that he’s been in love with her for a very long time, but that it drove his father nuts.

I really didn't expect to fall in love with this series of books and the characters as much as I have and Defy Me only added to that. Learning what happened to the two sisters is horrible to read about because they have been treated as experiments. At the end of the torture, Juliette still remembers her prior life as Juliette, but also remembers herself as Ella–memories of her time before Sector 45 coming in hot and heavy–memories of Warner, and of the other children of the supreme commanders. As a result, it makes sense why she would ask to die–for her it’s the kindest thing that she could do to herself. It gives the reader a strange sense of de ja vu as Warner previously did this in Shatter Me with a purple dress.Generally speaking, when a series does well and then is extended years later, the result is disappointing. Mafi excels at writing scenes like these because she is able to channel in Juliette’s emotions so perfectly. It’s fairly easy to see a spark between the two characters but also this sense of forbidden love that lies between them. Defy Me discusses Aaron’s development all over again, and his insecurities of the “monster” he became.