by
Tahereh Mafi
I have a gift
I'm more than human
My touch is power
I will fight back
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.
REVIEW:
I borrowed this book from my best friend.
That is exactly the way the thoughts of the girl has been written.Different? Yes. Works? No.
This is the story of a human cum venus fly trap Juliette who has been imprisoned as her touch is lethal and how her life changes when she gets a cell mate Adam (the only good character in the book!) with whom she shares a history. It was insta- love for them which was completely UNBELIEVABLE. Insta- crush/like/admire: yes but saying "I love you" to each other in the first 100 pages itself, seriously? Now, the Reestablishment wants to use Juliette as a weapon against their enemies so they take her to some facility and the story takes on from there.
In the beginning, I felt the story had potential. I kinda liked the Adam and Juliette scenes in their cell. They should have stayed there. But after that, the story lost track to be unique. The plot was very convenient, something you must have read before if you are a young adult fan like me. It was only in the last few pages that you are like "Where did
The writing reminded me of Terribly Tiny Tales. It was poetic, metaphorical and at times beautiful too but it seemed inconsistent with what the characters spoke/ thought of later on.
"He leans back against the couch. Runs a free hand over his face. Seasons change. Stars explode. Someone is walking on the moon."
Am I the only one who thought of Neil Armstrong here? Lame, i know, but true story!
“It's been me and you against the world forever," he says. "It's always been that way.”
What world???? I refuse to believe this is a dystopian novel. It was more like a love story with a weird villain and a heroine with a power on and off button.
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