Shatter Me Complete Collection (2011)
Shatter Me Complete Collection is a 2011 children's fiction book written by Tahereh Mafi.
One touch is all it takes. Juliette Ferrars can bring a grown man to his knees with bare skin, and she has spent her life being punished for a power nobody can explain, treated as a monster well before she has done anything monstrous.
This edition collects all six of Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me novels in one place. The world has come apart, food and order along with it, and the regime calling itself The Reestablishment does not see a girl who needs help; it sees a weapon that needs aiming. Juliette has never once fought for herself. The series is the long process of her deciding to, which takes her from a cell to open rebellion and puts her on a side she chooses rather than one chosen for her.
Mafi's voice is both the draw and the dividing line. Juliette narrates in a fevered, image-drenched first person, with struck-through lines and hammering repetition standing in for a mind that has had nobody to talk to for years. The romance runs at least as hot as the dystopian plot, and readers who prefer their young adult fiction restrained should know that going in. Read straight through, the six books track one long argument between fear and appetite.
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One touch is all it takes. Juliette Ferrars can bring a grown man to his knees with bare skin, and she has spent her life being punished for a power nobody can explain, treated as a monster well before she has done anything monstrous. This edition collects all six of Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me novels in one place. The world has come apart, food and order along with it, and the regime calling itself The Reestablishment does not see a girl who needs help; it sees a weapon that needs aiming. Juliette has never once fought for herself. The series is the long process of her deciding to, which takes her from a cell to open rebellion and puts her on a side she chooses rather than one chosen for her. Mafi's voice is both the draw and the dividing line. Juliette narrates in a fevered, image-drenched first person, with struck-through lines and hammering repetition standing in for a mind that has had nobody to talk to for years. The romance runs at least as hot as the dystopian plot, and readers who prefer their young adult fiction restrained should know that going in. Read straight through, the six books track one long argument between fear and appetite.
When was Shatter Me Complete Collection published?
Shatter Me Complete Collection was published in 2011.
Who made Shatter Me Complete Collection?
Shatter Me Complete Collection was written by Tahereh Mafi.
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The ancestor here is Carrie, a girl whose feared body becomes the only power available to her, filmed by Brian De Palma with none of the reassurance young adult fiction usually offers. Stranger Things gives you Eleven, another lab-made girl that powerful adults want to own, wrapped in something far friendlier. The Power scales the same premise up to a whole generation of young women discovering what their hands can do and what the world intends to do about it. The Nevers runs a Victorian variant, women with unasked-for abilities and institutions queuing up to manage them.
Lighter but on the same nerve, Kaiju Girl Caramelise is about a teenager whose body transforms whenever she feels too much.
Hiding a power that marks you as dangerous
Juliette's touch kills, and hiding that fact has kept her alive and alone for years. Smallville and Teen Wolf both follow someone who has to mask a power the people around them would fear or exploit, while Divergent, in its books and its film, gives Tris a secret gift dangerous enough to get her killed if the wrong faction finds out.
Dystopian regimes that decide who's worth keeping
The Reestablishment locks Juliette away only to decide her lethal touch is worth weaponizing once a war needs winning. The Handmaid's Tale and Silo build the same machinery, a regime that sorts people by their use to the state, while Matched and Delirium show what that control looks like once it reaches into who you're allowed to love.
Locked up for what you are, not what you did
Juliette opens this collection locked in an asylum cell for a power she never asked for, guilty of nothing but being dangerous. Batman: Arkham Asylum traps its own cast inside a facility built to contain what the world calls monstrous, The Dark Knight Returns follows a vigilante the state would rather cage, and BioShock's Rapture shows what a society looks like once it decides who gets to be free.