And this is just one example of the other thousand times it happens. All those fancy words are only there to tell us she blushed when Adam grinned. ” - What a hell is that? I’m so glad you asked: it is unnecessary, uncalled for, and exhausting. “ Heat rushes up my neck and I fall off a ladder holding a paintbrush dipped in red. Juliette’s narration drove me CRAZY, especially with these particular phrases and moments: I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history I experienced adolescence by association. “ I spent my life folded between the pages of books” “In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. She had this relatable moment in which I thought “ I’m going to like this girl ” because in her words I saw me: Her way of speaking truly reflected her isolation, her hopelessness, the feeling of being caged as an animal, and the prison of her own mind, as she tried to keep her sanity. Juliette, as narrator, telling us about her situation, locked up in that asylum for so long, was good in the way that it truly reflected a person both physically and mentally trapped, someone who had spent too much time in the sole company of herself and her thoughts. Upon the first few chapters things were going smoothly. And, oh, my God, what a let down! I can’t believe how so many people love this so much. So, as I saw this one was so popular among the reading community, and had been translated to so many languages, I decided to give it a try.
After all, it happened to me before that, upon watching adaptations of popular books and sagas I had ignored, I found amazing stories I couldn’t believe I didn’t know before.
#SHATTER ME TV SHOW SERIES#
I heard it is becoming a tv series this year, and I didn’t want to be late to the party. The reason I grabbed this book is simple. So, if you like this saga, you shouldn’t keep reading, because I don’t have anything good to say about this book, and you are not going to like it. Before starting this, I should probably tell you that this will be an angry rant review, the type I normally reserve the one star GoodReads rating for.
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