But I was hesitant to read this book with absolute certainty it would continue that way. Defy Me gave me a real sense of excitement and adventure.

Having dialogue, communication between characters in a book is never a bad thing by itself it’s always been just a bit overbearing in this series, especially for a dystopia.

It was the first book since the original that separated most of the characters and having them in dire situations from the get-go. That book was quite a roller coaster, which I wasn’t used to. I had hope for this supposed final entry after Defy Me. Everyone thinks, after Juliette and Warner were able to escape, that they’d at least have a bit of time to cool off, that they can have a bit of time to get their bearings. Not only that, Paris Anderson is back from the dead and on the hunt for them all. The thing is, though, Ella’s long-missing sister Emmaline is still being tortured at her now-deceased mother’s factory in Oceania, and begging for death. The whole squad of her friends are at a place called Sanctuary, safe because a new ally named Nouria manages to manipulate light in a way that makes them invisible to the regular eye. So after five books in the series, Juliette Ferrars, real name recently revealed as Ella, has proposed to her boyfriend Aaron Warner Anderson. I’ve enjoyed a fair bit of her books ( Shatter Me, Defy Me, A Very Large Expanse of Sea) but there was always something preventing me from singing full praise, and now here we are, with a cover that uses a dark-gray colour for the background almost the same as the very first one, and an eye with diamonds as eyelashes showing that the time for games is over and to be prepared for a stabbing. Tahereh Mafi has finally really impressed me.

Imagine me shatter me