Review: Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi

Unravel Me
(Shatter Me 2)
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Publisher: Harper Collins
Genre: YA Dystopia Paranormal
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Overview 

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it's almost

time for war.

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.

Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi unraveled each and every single piece of my heart and left me wanting for more of the delicious feeling.

Juliette is having a hard time adjusting to Omega Point. She’s hardly talked to anyone—besides Adam, Kenji, or James—because she’s too afraid of doing or saying the wrong thing. I mean, the girl spent a year in isolation, so it’s understandable she’d have trouble socializing. But the reason she’s staying away from everyone is self-hate. Juliette knows she’s a monster that could hurt anyone at the slightest touch, to she stays away. Luckily, Kenji—aka my future husband—comes along and tells her to get a grip, stop feeling sorry for herself, and deal with who she is and what she can do. They are there to learn and work with their gifts, so Juliette starts training then.

Adam however makes things difficult, when he comes in with terrible news that leave Juliette reeling and more certain than ever that they can’t be together. He isn’t the fluke, the savior she thought he was. Poor Adam is a train wreck in this book. I had a seriously hard time trying to remember why I loved him so much in book one, because in this one he wasn’t much to feel for. He did manage to blow my mind with his revelation in chapter thirty eight. I mean, the poor guy can’t catch a break in this book.

Now, while Adam was a disaster a previously hated character came into play and literally swept me off my feet. They go on a mission to exchange Juliette for prisoners. It all goes horribly wrong of course, but then Juliette goes insane and saves everyone. Now they’ve got a hostage of their own to trade with…Warner. Oh dear lord, Warner. Warner apologizing. Warner sleeping in boxers and nothing else. Warner reciting Juliette’s notebook back to her. Warner unraveling because of her. Adam…once Warner came into the picture, I totally forgot about you. Chapter sixty two left me ‘dead, all over the floor.’

The ending was full of surprises, both good and bad. For a moment there I thought I’d have to do a “If Kenji dies We riot” shirt, but it all sorts itself out. Warner was just…there are no words for my feelings towards him now. This is an awesome sequel, and I can’t believe the amount of character building done here. It left me thinking, what else can Tahereh throw our way in the third book? Whatever she comes up with will shatter and unravel us.

Favorite Quotes:

~Shut up, Kenji~

“That was one hell of a show back there. That’s the kind of entertainment we never really get underground.”
Mortification.
I’m draped in it. Painted in it. Buried in it.
“I mean. I just have to say—that last line? ‘I wish I could love you less’? That was genius. Really, really nice. I think Winston actually shed a tear—”
“SHUT UP, KENJI.”
“I’m serious!” he says to me, offended. “That was, I don’t know. It was kind of beautiful. I had no idea you guys were so intense.”

~Her power~

I steel myself. I flex my fist. I pull back my arm and
I
s h a t t e r
what’s left of this world.

~An apology~

“I promise you,” he says. “I never would’ve kissed you if I didn’t think you wanted me to.
And I’m so shocked that for a moment I forget all about my notebook. I meet his heavy gaze. Manage to steady my voice. “I told you I hated you.”
“Yes,” he says. He nods. “Well. You’d be surprised how many people say that to me.”
“I don’t think I would.”

~Her traitorous feelings~

He doesn’t say a word. He only moves closer to me, studying me and I’m frozen in place, my mouth stuffed full of the seconds he doesn’t speak and I’m fighting every atom in my body, every stupid cell in my system for being so attracted to him.
Oh.
God.
I am so horribly attracted to him.