![]() Shatter Me is her first novel, and the series is followed by another trilogy set in the same universe and with the same cast of characters. Tahereh Mafi is an Iranian-American author known for writing young adult fiction. Wearing the uniform and surrounded by like-minded people, Juliette regains her confidence and feels ready to join the resistance. Juliette also learns that Kenji has been secretly working for the underground for many years now and he joined the army to keep an eye on Warner and his plans.Īt Omega Point Juliette receives a custom-made suit that allows her to touch other people. Because of their healers, Adam is fully recovered from his injuries within a few days. Castle also tells Juliette that at Omega Point there are 56 people who have different powers, and they all use them for a good cause. She meets a man named Castle, who is a rebel leader, and he explains that they have been looking for her for a long time because of her gift. When Juliette wakes up, she learns that she is at Omega Point, a resistance headquarters. There Adam is taken to a hospital wing, and Juliette is given sedatives to recover. The two steal a car and drive to a safe hideout Kenji knows. She shoots Warner and starts looking for Adam, eventually finding him severely injured. He expresses his excitement to be able to touch her and Juliette begins to kiss him and pull him close to be able to reach for a gun in his inner pocket. Warner captures Juliette and continues to push her to join his side. Just as they all decide to flee, soldiers arrive at the house and Adam, Juliette, James, and Kenji run away, but they don’t manage to get far. Soon after they arrive at the house, they receive a visitor, a soldier named Kenji, who explains that he ran away after Warner had tortured him to get information about Adam and his whereabouts. They drive to his house where he introduces Juliette to his 10-year-old brother James. She and Adam escape and find a tank that Adam hid a long time ago. ![]() When they try to run away, Warner attempts to stop Juliette and touches her, and she learns that he too is immune to her touch. Juliette and Adam begin to draw up an escape plan. Warner continues to push Juliette to join his side, and she is horrified to see what he is capable of in his hunt for power. Juliette also realizes that Adam is immune to her touch, and eventually the two secretly start a romantic relationship. Realizing that Adam truly wants to help, Juliette begins to remember that she and Adam used to be classmates and that he was the only one who protected her from bullies. One day she finds the notebook that she used to have in the asylum and deduces that Adam must have secretly brought it for her. When she finds out that Adam was beaten for her refusal, Juliette decides to play along in order to protect him. In order to show Juliette what her life could be like if she agrees, Warner gives her an exquisitely decorated room in one the compounds and assigns Adam as her guard.Īlthough Juliette’s room in the compound is much more comfortable than her cell in the asylum, where she was deprived of even basic necessities, she refuses to cooperate with Warner. He tries to recruit her by promising a life of ease and abundance in exchange for her willingness to cooperate with him. There she also meets the leader of Sector 45, Warner, who wants to use Juliette’s lethal touch in his fight against the rebels. They take her to Sector 45, one of the areas under control of The Reestablishment, where she finds out that Adam is a soldier who was sent to spy on her. One day soldiers storm into the cell and take Juliette away. Yet with time, the two start to talk, and Juliette teaches Adam how to survive in the asylum, while Adam, seeing that Juliette is cold, gives her his blanket. At first, she avoids talking to him, and Adam behaves aggressively, taking away Juliette’s blanket and pillow. Juliette has a feeling that she had seen him somewhere before by she can’t remember exactly when and where it happened. She is stunned and confused when she realizes that her cellmate is a boy named Adam and he is of the same age as her. ![]() One day Juliette learns that she will have a cellmate. The totalitarian government that has taken over the country, The Reestablishment, put Juliette in an asylum because it wants to use her lethal touch as a weapon in the fight against the underground forces. After she accidentally killed a little boy, Juliette has been kept in various detention centers, and although she is not dangerous for the society, she has been isolated for so long she begins to doubt her sanity. Shatter Me opens with Juliette Ferrars, a 17-year-old-girl, being locked in a small cell of an asylum because of her lethal touch.
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