Iranian-American Author Tahereh Mafi is a #1 New York Times Best Selling author, #1 International Best selling author and National book award nominee. As an author of numerous popular books, She is most recognized for her work on the Shatter Me Series. Currently the series has 9 books and 5 Novellas, and the series is still continually in work. Among other popular titles, her first published book, A Very Large Expanse of Sea, was coined “the Best YA book of all time” by Time Magazine. Other popular series written by Mafi include This Woven Kingdom, and Furthermore.
Juliette is the predominant protagonist within the entirety of the series, however, the series also contains multiple points of view of other characters such as Aaron Warren, or Adam Kent, and features novellas of entirely other characters' perspectives as well. The plot is, as listed on Good Reads, “Juliette hasn't touched anyone in exactly 264 days. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. No one knows why Juliette's touch is fatal. As long as she doesn't hurt anyone else, no one really cares. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don't fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war—and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Maybe she's exactly what they need right now. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior.” Shatter Me is an intriguing book full of Magic, Mystery, and Romance! Any reader looking for a new book to pick up should check out the story Shatter Me has to offer.
“I am nothing but a novocaine. I am numb, a world of nothing, all feeling and emotion gone forever. I am a whisper that never was.”
“Someone picked up the sun and pinned it to the sky again, but every day it hangs a little lower than the day before.”
“My life is four walls of missed opportunities poured in concrete molds”
“Hope in this world bleeds out the barrel of a gun”
“Truth is a jealous, vicious mistress that never, ever sleeps”