![]() Plus, they're thrown into an adrenaline-filled situation and, of course, that's going to heighten their feelings. I could kind of understand.Juliette had never been able to touch someone before and suddenly she realizes that not only is this (gorgeous) guy interested, but he can touch her. ![]() I had a wee bit of trouble with the instalove between Adam and Juliette. She also realizes how much power she has and what she can do with it. Juliette found her spark and her drive and her anger. I could understand where she was coming from (being terrified that you can kill someone with a single touch can really screw you up) but she didn't make for a particularly riveting character. She was so timid and unsure of things in the first two books (which might have played a part in why I wasn't loving the books) that it was hard to really root for her. It flowed and whenever the reader was confused, Juliette was also confused and another character would explain the importance of what was going on.Ĭontinuing with Juliette, she was an interesting heroine. The reader was equally clueless so Mafi was able to explain details without doing a dreaded info dump. She had been institutionalized for so long that she had no idea what was going on in the outside world. I found it interesting that Juliette played the part of the reader, sort of. I was completely invested and read it in one sitting in an afternoon because I just couldn't stop. I think it had a lot to do with Juliette's personality (which I'll get into later) but also just the storyline itself. I was interested in the story and the characters and I wondered where Mafi was taking things and I can see why other people adore these books.īut wait! I wrote most of that last paragraph before reading Ignite Me. It's not fair, and I know it (and I've been yelling at everyone who's been saying the Divergent movie is the same as The Hunger Games.ugh, pot meet kettle), but that's what happened. All I could think about was how they had to fight the leaders of their messed up world, which included training for the inevitable battle, as well as how a romance played into it, and how all these little things compared to series I had read previously. I wanted these books to stand on their own and wow me with their story. I say unfortunately because I didn't want to compare them. Once I had that figured out, I, unfortunately, started comparing it to similar series - Divergent, Delirium, even The Hunger Games. Once I started reading Shatter Me I realized it was dystopian/post-apocalyptic series (can someone explain what, exactly, the difference is between those two. All I knew was that a lot of people were loving the series so I thought I'd give it a go. And I really didn't know what to tell her.
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