I knew they were going to wind up together, but I didn’t understand why fans were fawning over him so desperately. I was absolutely not a fan of Warner from the very beginning, and I’m not sorry. I neither loved nor hated her relationship with Adam, although I had to give it props because it isn’t quite insta-love since they’ve known each other since their childhoods. The first half of the book is incredibly slow, and the second half is action-packed and very clearly left on a cliffhanger. There’s very little worldbuilding here we’re given snippets of what’s happened, but since Juliette has been in isolation her entire life, she has no idea what really went on so…neither do we. It follows the typical young-adult dystopia plot (average teenage white girl gangs up with friends to overthrow the government). Honestly, the writing was about the only redeeming quality of this first book. The strikeouts were annoying at first, but they gradually become less and less throughout the book (and are almost completely absent throughout the rest of the series!). The book is written through Juliette’s perspective, like she’s writing in her journal, so there are a lot of lines that are completely crossed out. I absolutely loved the prose here and felt it was Mafi’s strongest writing. The books all have their own strengths and weaknesses, so I felt it was fair to review them individually. There were characters I couldn’t stand that everyone else loved, and it took me most of the series to finally understand the hype around those characters. I adored the writing style in most of the books, and that’s ultimately what kept me invested in the series. And I do think I would have enjoyed this more if I had read it when it initially came out, when dystopian YA was at its biggest. I’m glad to have read it, mostly because the series holds such a big place in my coworker’s heart. The truth is, now that I’m finally finished reading it, I have so many mixed emotions about this series. We all know young adult trilogies are generally not my favorite, especially when they have some type of dystopian world included, but I figured if my coworker genuinely loved this series, I would give it a shot for her. Hers to me was the Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi. Mine to her was The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. Last month, one of my coworkers and I agreed to swap books that we love.
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