264 Days In Shatter Me

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264 days. 264 days of isolation, with nothing but a small notebook, a broken pen and the numbers to keep her company. 4 walls, 144 square feet of space, and 26 letters in the alphabet that she hasn’t spoken in 264 days of isolation. 6,336 hours since she has touched another human being. Juliette Ferrars has a touch that doesn’t just make contact. It kills. Thrilling, intense, and dangerous, “Shatter Me,” by Tahereh Mafi, combines presents a world as enthralling as The Hunger Games, and a superhero story as exciting as The X-Men. It is the first book in the “Shatter Me” trilogy and is sure to captivate the attention of fans of dystopian, young-adult literature.

Seventeen-year-old Juliette Ferrars can unexplainably kill others with a single touch. Juliette has been cast off from society and placed in an insane asylum after an incident in which she embraced a child, resulting in the child’s death. After spending 264 days in isolation, Juliette is clearly losing her grasp on reality, and struggling to prove to herself that she is not the monster that society believes she is, but she uses numbers and the written word to keep herself sane. In a hidden …show more content…

The writing style definitely added to this, as the strike through method and repetition showed that Juliette is human, and allowed me to understand her chaotic thought processes. One thing that I was interested in learning a bit more about was the history of the Reestablishment, as well as how Anderson (Warner’s father) had managed to have the world under his grasp. However, this is just a minor detail in comparison to the various inventive ideas that this story has to offer, as well as the unique and uncommon writing style for dystopian

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