Jackie's Talking About The Hottest YA Book This Season

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.

In this electrifying debut, Tahereh Mafi presents a world as riveting as The Hunger Games and a superhero story as thrilling as The X-Men. Full of pulse-pounding romance, intoxicating villainy, and high-stakes choices, Shatter Me is a fresh and original dystopian novel—with a paranormal twist—that will leave readers anxiously awaiting its sequel.

Jackie says:
"This is a fantastic book, but difficult to review because a lot of it's power is in the discoveries that happen as you read through it.  To tell you any of them would be taking away from the book, and I don't want to do that.  I can just give you the premise--the world is dying; the animals are gone, food is scarce, and survivors have been rounded up into rag-tag communities organized by The Reestablishment.  17 year old Juliette has been imprisoned in an asylum that might be for the insane or it might be for the simply unwanted.  She's a convicted murderer, but not an intentional one.  Juliette was born with an unusual power--she can kill with her touch.  No one knows why, and everyone is terrified her.  When the book begins, she hasn't touched, or spoken, to anyone, in 264 days.  Not long after we meet her, she learns of the fate The Reestablishment has for her, and her fight begins.  If you like the X-Men, Hunger Games and heavy adventure of any kind with some romance thrown in, this will catch you up in its web.  Fortunately, this is a planned series because by the time you get to the end of the book, you are going to be ravenous for what comes next."