Shatter Me 

Picture this. The world has been taken over by the Reestablishment with the sole purpose of seizing control after society crashes and the environment is a disaster. You have some sort of disease; your touch is deadly. You don’t know where it came from, and one day you see a boy in the grocery store, wailing, and you go to help him–just to accidentally murder him. You get sent to an insane asylum as the Reestablishment takes you away from your life and wants to turn you into a weapon. After 364 days being in the asylum, isolated from society, someone randomly gets added to your cell that you don’t know. That is Juliette Ferrars' life. As she struggles through the Reestablishment, taking her to use as a weapon and putting her through ruthless training, Shatter Me shows how the Reestablishment shatters her. And she wants to take it down. 

The author of Shatter Me is Tahereh Mafi. She is 37 years old and is married to Ransom Riggs. Tahereh was born on November 9, 1988, and has one daughter named Layla. Layla was born on May 30th, 2017, and they all live in Southern California. Mafi was born in a small town in Connecticut, living with her four older brothers. Her parents were immigrants from Iran and she moved to Northern California when she was 12, and at 14 they moved to Orange County. She graduated from University High School in Irvine, California, and she studied abroad in Spain and Barcelona. Shatter Me was published on November 15th, 2011, when she was 23. Shatter Me has 10 books in the series, with five books and five novellas. The books are Shatter Me, Unravel Me, Ignite Me, Restore Me, and Defy Me. The novellas are Destroy Me, Fracture Me, Shadow Me, Reveal Me, and Believe Me. There is also a spinoff series that Tahereh Mafi is in the process of making, called The New Republic, taking place ten years after Shatter Me. The only book out so far for that series is Watch Me, but she is writing the next one called Release Me, which is supposed to come out April 7th, 2026. It is available for pre-order. She has written other books, but Shatter Me is her most popular one. 

Shatter Me is definitely our favorite book series and we would recommend it to anyone looking for a good dystopian series with action, romance, and plot twists. We rate this book series a 10/10; it has a great storyline and good pacing. We loved all of the characters, and the author made each character special. In our opinion, the third book was the best in the series, but all of them were really good. We were hooked on each one. The novellas from different POV’s were incredible and gave a much deeper perspective and understanding. Shatter Me took us through a rollercoaster of emotions; we were laughing one second, furious the next, then crying after.