If you don’t like this sort of writing then I would suggest you stay far, far away from this book because the entire story is written in this manner. My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab.” It’s like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn’t seem to care where the contents fall, doesn’t seem to care that the raindrops burst when they hit the ground, that they shatter when they fall to the floor, that people curse the days the drops dare to tap on their doors. I wonder about how they’re always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. Below is one of my favorite quotes from the book: The Writing: I am repeating myself when I say this, but Tahereh Mafi’s style can only be described in word and that is poetic. So naturally, this book, its writing, and the protagonist reached out to me on a very deep level. Not to mention, most of my favorite poems are ones that are written in Tahereh Mafi’s style. Even the way she writes her journal entries are very similar to the way I used to write my own journal entries during that difficult time. Personally, I loved Shatter Me because of the writing–in a way I could relate to it–not because I have an abusive past or anything (I don’t) but because being in Juliette’s mind reminded me too much of my own writings back when I was suffering from depression myself. I’ll be quoting some of those parts of the book and if you find you don’t like it, then reading this book would be absolute torture for you. Despite the five coffee cups, this is not a book I would recommend to everyone because of the following reasons–ġ) This is a depressing book, seeing as how our protagonist is a psychologically unstable teenager who had suffered years of verbal and physical abuse from everyone around her, including her parents.Ģ) The writing, although poetic, (and in my opinion, beautiful) is full of metaphors that many readers have complained didn’t make sense to them.
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