Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2) in Sophomore Reading Challenge

Feb 25, 2012 Jen Ryland (jenrylandreviews & yaallday) added it

Shelves: love-triangle-why, hate-to-love

My thoughts: Whew. So many thoughts about Unravel Me, and I will attempt to express them with no spoilers.

Warner
He's that bad boy that women think they can redeem, the guy who's bad for a reason. I'm definitely buying that he has a softer side, and I'm on his team for sure (because I'm usually Team Underdog) but I wish he'd stop calling Juliette "love" because it creeps me out just a little bit.

Adam
Poor Adam. He suffers a lot in this book, meaning that he also catches Juliette's case of the mope ...more

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Jan 01, 2012 Jess at Such a Novel Idea rated it it was amazing

Shelves: 2013-reads

Chapter 62 man, CHAPTER SIXTY TWO.

AHH, Warner! I LOVE you <3

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Jan 31, 2013 Andi (Andi's ABCs) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: would-recommend, series, books-from-m, amazon-review

Not gonna lie, I was scared to read this after I skimmed some reviews and saw I was in for a roller coaster of emotions. And after all the twist and turns in Shatter Me I knew Mafi wasn’t going to let us off easy. Not to mention the rumblings about a certain chapter 62. But even with all that said, I was dying to read this one. So I put on my big girl panties and dived in. And man was I ever shattered, destroyed and unraveled. Mafi killed me with this book and I loved every painful minute.

Unrave Not gonna lie, I was scared to read this after I skimmed some reviews and saw I was in for a roller coaster of emotions. And after all the twist and turns in Shatter Me I knew Mafi wasn’t going to let us off easy. Not to mention the rumblings about a certain chapter 62. But even with all that said, I was dying to read this one. So I put on my big girl panties and dived in. And man was I ever shattered, destroyed and unraveled. Mafi killed me with this book and I loved every painful minute.

Unravel Me continues right where we left off in Shatter Me. Juliette, Adam and Kenji are now with the people of Omega Point lead by Castle. Since arriving at the secret headquarters of the resistance and meeting people with gifts like her, Juliette has been trying to learn how to use her gift and what her gift means. But as Juliette begins to get a handle on her power everything else in her life begins to fall apart. Now Juliette is stuck between deciding with her heart, with her needs and with her life just what is important to her and with the reemergence of Warner things become a whole lot more complicated than she ever could have imagined.

I was so frustrated reading this book. I felt like everything that I didn’t want to happen happened and yet everything that happened left me wanting more. I was a jumble of contradicting emotions and that was the case from beginning to end. Juliette made some choices I just didn’t like nor did I understand on the surface, but then when I would think about them deeper I could see where she was coming from and why she reacted the way she did. Did I like it, most of the time no, but I understood it. I also completely understood where Adam was coming from. Adam goes through a major transition in this book and it isn’t easy on him, on his friends, on anyone. Everything he thought he knew about himself is different somehow and he is grasping at ways to make things right. I think that is what broke me the most. I hated a lot of the Adam and Juliette parts but I loved them just the same because I got it and it made sense to me.

What doesn’t make sense is Warner. I’m going on the record as saying I don’t like him. I didn’t like him in Shatter Me and I really didn’t like him in Unravel Me. When I read the brief eBook Destroy Me which was solely focused on him, I liked him a little more because I thought I understood a little more about him. But I was wrong because all Warner showed me in this book is that he is selfish, self-serving and has a sick, creepy obsession with Juliette. He was completely manipulating everyone around him and that left a bad taste in my mouth and the fact that Juliette felt the way she did about him left a bad taste in my mouth. Because the thing is it is easy to say Warner is the way he is because…. But the truth of the matter for me is that he is the way he is because he chooses to be that way and I just can’t get behind him as a character because of that. The only reason my feelings on Warner didn’t lower my rating on this book is because I do have feelings on him. He is an awesome villain, simple as that. Without him you would just have a pretty book with gorgeous words and an adorable couple. Warner brings the conflict which is needed, but I also think he needs to grow up and become likable if I’m supposed to root for him.

With all that said Unravel Me is a poetically written story about uncertainty and your world being ripped apart leaving nothing the same. Mafi brings the exact same magic she brought to Shatter Me and give you twist after twist after twist that will leave you breathless and wanting more. Your heart will be trampled on and then ridden over again with a bus that has nails in its tires, but it is well worth the distress if even for the beauty. If you like angst then this is bar far the book/series for you. Can’t wait for the conclusion.
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Jan 05, 2012 Patricia rated it it was amazing

Shelves: src-2012

If I could give this book 10 bazillion stars I would. This blew me away!! Full review closer to release date *picks up Unravel Me and starts re-reading it*

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Jun 24, 2012 Sarah (YA Love) rated it liked it

Shelves: 2013-release, series, young-adult-lit, dystopian, supernatural, read-in-2012

I'm actually giving this a 3.5

It's weird giving Unravel Me less than 4 or 5 stars since I loved Shatter Me so much, but Juliette dragged this one down for me. Her constant drama and doubt grew tiring as it continued through the book. Unravel Me needs more plot development; there's plenty of action, but it felt like too much of the story was stagnant. I'll have a full review closer to the release date. ...more

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