Unravel Me

Our lips 
touch 
and I know I'm going to split at the seams. He kisses me softly then strongly like he's lost me and he's found me and I'm slipping away and he's never going to let me go. 

Juliette has escaped from The Reestablishment. Now she's free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch. Or from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible. Haunted by her past and terrified of her future, Juliette knows that she will have to make some life-changing choices. Choices that may involve choosing between her heart—and Adam's life. Juliette has escaped to Omega Point. It is a place for people like her—people with gifts—and it is also the headquarters of the rebel resistance. She's finally free from The Reestablishment, free from their plan to use her as a weapon, and free to love Adam. But Juliette will never be free from her lethal touch. Or from Warner, who wants Juliette more than she ever thought possible. 

I absolutely LOVED the first book in this trilogy and I had very high expectations about this one. It turned out to be really slow in the beginning but it got much better. The last chapters were just so great but it wasn't as good as the first book. Nope.

Some new charachters showed up in this book but you didn't really get to know them. Maybe, there'll be more about them in the final book but it almost felt like something was missing. It wasn't as thrilling as I hope it to be either. We get to know Warner a bit better though and I know a lot of you love him but I still can't stand him. Even though we get to know a little about his background, there's no excuse for torturing people. He's not one of my favorite characters as you might have guessed. Kenji grew a lot in my eyes though and I hope to read more about him in the final book.

Anyway, it's a great book and if you haven't start reading the trilogy yet, you should definitely do it!

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi 
Paperback, 461 pages
HarperCollins
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Shatter Me

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.

OK, this is so good I don't even know what to say. This really is a book that is impossible to put down! I got hooked from the first page and just wanted more.

It is a well-written young adult book with a really good story and it feels real! The only thing that possibly disturbed me at the beginning of the book was the underlined words but I learned quickly that it was a special part of the book and finally I barely saw it. It was poetic.

R-E-A-D-I-T-N-O-W!

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
Paperback, 340 pages
HarperCollins
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Book Blogger Hop: May 10th -16th

Ok, it's time for the Book Blogger Hop, which is a meme hosted by Coffee Addicted Writer. Every week, you answer a question on your blog and put your link in the linky list at CAW. Then you can scout through all the blogs that has participated.

May 10th - 16th: What was the last book you re-read? Or name a book you would like to re-read. (submitted by Tanya)

The last book I re-read was actually The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashares. Last summer I decided to read the whole series but I didn't get that far so I guess I'll be reading it again this summer and actually finish it.

A book that I really want to re-read at the moment is Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi.