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Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2)
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Dec 04, 2011
bookshelves: dystopian, young-adult, sci-fi, romance, own-physical-copy, favourites, reviewed, to-reread
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This series is shifting focus from the dystopian aspects, the Reestablishment, to the romance. There really wasnt that much of a story in this and I didnt even notice. The characters are the best thing about this series anyways.
We got to understand Juliette, and Adam, and Warner, Kenji, and Anderson, and even James better in this book. I was really unimpressed by Adam in this book. He has become the love interest who is there just to be a love interest, and really has no place in the story. He may later, due to the revelation we found out about him in this book. It may become more of an issue in book 3. But besides that, he was just there to confuse Juliette and make her feel guilty, and, I suppose, to push her towards Warner. I honestly think the fact that she managed to forget him for most of chapter 62 is a point against him. Juliette felt guilty afterwards, but she has no reason to. If she already moved on without having even noticed, then really, what is there left keeping her attached to Adam? But she still has feelings for him, however inexplicable.
"He's standing right in front of me and I miss him like I haven't seen him in years."
I feel like I know Warner even better now. Even better than I did after Destroy Me. Destroy Me told us more about his past and his immediate present. About what he thought, how he went about his day, and how he felt about Juliette. But Unravel Me really revealed him as a character, who he was, what he wanted. Every conversation he had with Juliette revealed more about him. About his dreams for the future. And I honestly feel like he and Juliette have far more of a connection than Juliette and Adam. And I am not just saying that because I am biasedly in love with Warner. As much as I love Jem, I think Tessa would be better off with Will. I dont think she deserves Jem anyways. But I can see the way that Juliette and Warner understand each other. The way they make each other stronger, just like his fatherly mockingly said.
Although I still have some reservation about Warner's intentions. Would he still end up trying to use Juliette as a weapon? What would he do in terms of a war against the Reestablishment? I dont think Juliette is a monster, but she undeniably has a certain propensity for violence. I dont know if it is because of her gift, or if she would have been that way anyways. But not everyone would naturally think to try to break the earth when they get angry. Not everyone would think to shoot their enemy in all their limbs before killing them. Juliette and Warner would have to be willing to accept each other before having any sort of successful relationship. If Warner ever pushed her too hard in the wrong direction, I think she could become the monster she fears.
I cannot wait to find out what Juliette will do next. In the end of the book she was angry, and wanting to protect everyone she cared about. Does that mean she will run back to Omega Point? Or will she stay with Warner, try to take down his father together? This is a series that I know will continue to surprise and impress me.
This series is shifting focus from the dystopian aspects, the Reestablishment, to the romance. There really wasnt that much of a story in this and I didnt even notice. The characters are the best thing about this series anyways.
We got to understand Juliette, and Adam, and Warner, Kenji, and Anderson, and even James better in this book. I was really unimpressed by Adam in this book. He has become the love interest who is there just to be a love interest, and really has no place in the story. He may later, due to the revelation we found out about him in this book. It may become more of an issue in book 3. But besides that, he was just there to confuse Juliette and make her feel guilty, and, I suppose, to push her towards Warner. I honestly think the fact that she managed to forget him for most of chapter 62 is a point against him. Juliette felt guilty afterwards, but she has no reason to. If she already moved on without having even noticed, then really, what is there left keeping her attached to Adam? But she still has feelings for him, however inexplicable.
"He's standing right in front of me and I miss him like I haven't seen him in years."
I feel like I know Warner even better now. Even better than I did after Destroy Me. Destroy Me told us more about his past and his immediate present. About what he thought, how he went about his day, and how he felt about Juliette. But Unravel Me really revealed him as a character, who he was, what he wanted. Every conversation he had with Juliette revealed more about him. About his dreams for the future. And I honestly feel like he and Juliette have far more of a connection than Juliette and Adam. And I am not just saying that because I am biasedly in love with Warner. As much as I love Jem, I think Tessa would be better off with Will. I dont think she deserves Jem anyways. But I can see the way that Juliette and Warner understand each other. The way they make each other stronger, just like his fatherly mockingly said.
Although I still have some reservation about Warner's intentions. Would he still end up trying to use Juliette as a weapon? What would he do in terms of a war against the Reestablishment? I dont think Juliette is a monster, but she undeniably has a certain propensity for violence. I dont know if it is because of her gift, or if she would have been that way anyways. But not everyone would naturally think to try to break the earth when they get angry. Not everyone would think to shoot their enemy in all their limbs before killing them. Juliette and Warner would have to be willing to accept each other before having any sort of successful relationship. If Warner ever pushed her too hard in the wrong direction, I think she could become the monster she fears.
I cannot wait to find out what Juliette will do next. In the end of the book she was angry, and wanting to protect everyone she cared about. Does that mean she will run back to Omega Point? Or will she stay with Warner, try to take down his father together? This is a series that I know will continue to surprise and impress me.
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“He looks immaculate.
Flawless, especially as he stands here among the dirt and destruction, surrounded by the bleakest colors this landscape has to offer. He's a vision of emerald and onyx, silhouetted in the sunlight in the most deceiving way. He could be glowing. That could be a halo around his head. This could be the world's way of making an example out of irony. Because Warner is beautiful in ways even Adam isn't.”
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Flawless, especially as he stands here among the dirt and destruction, surrounded by the bleakest colors this landscape has to offer. He's a vision of emerald and onyx, silhouetted in the sunlight in the most deceiving way. He could be glowing. That could be a halo around his head. This could be the world's way of making an example out of irony. Because Warner is beautiful in ways even Adam isn't.”
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“I want to be the friend you fall hopelessly in love with. The one you take into your arms and into your bed and into the private world you keep trapped in your head. I want to be that kind of friend. The one who will memorize the things you say as well as the shape of your lips when you say them. I want to know every curve, every freckle, every shiver of your body.
I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”
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I want to know where to touch you, I want to know how to touch you. I want to know convince you to design a smile just for me. Yes, I do want to be your friend. I want to be your best friend in the entire world.”
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“It's just a whisper of a kiss but something collapses in my skull. It's a feather-light brush of his mouth against my skin in a place I can't quite see. It's my mind speaking in a thousand different languages I don't understand.”
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“I want so many things,â€� he whispers. “I want your mind. Your strength. I want to be worth your time.â€� His fingers graze the hem of my top and he says “I want this up.â€� He tugs on the waist of my pants and says “I want these down.â€� He touches the tips of his fingers to the sides of my body and says, “I want to feel your skin on fire. I want to feel your heart racing next to mine and I want to know it’s racing because of me, because you want me. Because you never,â€� he says, he breathes, “never want me to stop. I want every second. Every inch of you. I want all of it.”
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“The man is moody as hell.â€�
“I am not moody—â¶Ä�
“Yeah, bro.â€� Kenji puts his utensils down. “You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.â€� ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.â€� ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.â€� When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me nakedâ€�”
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“I am not moody—â¶Ä�
“Yeah, bro.â€� Kenji puts his utensils down. “You are moody. It’s always ‘Shut up, Kenji.â€� ‘Go to sleep, Kenji.â€� ‘No one wants to see you naked, Kenji.â€� When I know for a fact that there are thousands of people who would love to see me nakedâ€�”
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“His chest, heaving harder this time. His words, almost gasping this time. “You destroy me.â€�
I am falling to pieces in his arms.
My fists are full of unlucky pennies and my heart is a jukebox demanding a few nickels and my head is flipping quarters heads or tails heads or tails heads or tails heads or tails
“Juliette,� he says, and he mouths the name, barely speaking at all, and he’s pouring molten lava into my limbs and I never even knew I could melt straight to death.
“I want you,â€� he says. He says “I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I ache for you.â€� He says it like it’s a lit cigarette lodged in his throat, like he wants to dip me in warm honey and he says “It’s never been a secret. I’ve never tried to hide that from you. I’ve never pretended I wanted anything less.”
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I am falling to pieces in his arms.
My fists are full of unlucky pennies and my heart is a jukebox demanding a few nickels and my head is flipping quarters heads or tails heads or tails heads or tails heads or tails
“Juliette,� he says, and he mouths the name, barely speaking at all, and he’s pouring molten lava into my limbs and I never even knew I could melt straight to death.
“I want you,â€� he says. He says “I want all of you. I want you inside and out and catching your breath and aching for me like I ache for you.â€� He says it like it’s a lit cigarette lodged in his throat, like he wants to dip me in warm honey and he says “It’s never been a secret. I’ve never tried to hide that from you. I’ve never pretended I wanted anything less.”
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“All I know next are his arms, the desperate edge to his voice when he says my name, and I'm unraveling in his embrace, I'm frayed and falling apart and I'm making no effort to control the tremors in my bones and he's so hot his skin is so hot and I don't even know where I am anymore.”
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“And he leans in, so carefully. Breathing
and not breathing and hearts beating
between us and he’s so close, he’s so close and I can’t feel my legs anymore. I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers
“P±ô±ð²¹²õ±ð.â€�
He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.�
And he kisses me.
His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. It’s sweet, it’s
so effortlessly sweet.
And then it changes.
“Oh God—â¶Ä�
He kisses me again, this time stronger,
desperate, like he has to have me, like he’s dying to memorize the feel of my lips against his own. The taste of him is making me crazy; he’s all heat and desire and peppermint and I want more. I've just begun reeling him in, pulling him into me when he breaks away.
He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind andhe’s looking at me like something has brokeninside of him, like he’s woken up to find that
his nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now he’s awake and he’s safe and everything is going to be okay and
I’m falling.
I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster.”
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and not breathing and hearts beating
between us and he’s so close, he’s so close and I can’t feel my legs anymore. I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers
“P±ô±ð²¹²õ±ð.â€�
He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.�
And he kisses me.
His lips are softer than anything I've ever known, soft like a first snowfall, like biting into cotton candy, like melting and floating and being weightless in water. It’s sweet, it’s
so effortlessly sweet.
And then it changes.
“Oh God—â¶Ä�
He kisses me again, this time stronger,
desperate, like he has to have me, like he’s dying to memorize the feel of my lips against his own. The taste of him is making me crazy; he’s all heat and desire and peppermint and I want more. I've just begun reeling him in, pulling him into me when he breaks away.
He’s breathing like he’s lost his mind andhe’s looking at me like something has brokeninside of him, like he’s woken up to find that
his nightmares were just that, that they never existed, that it was all just a bad dream that felt far too real but now he’s awake and he’s safe and everything is going to be okay and
I’m falling.
I’m falling apart and into his heart and I’m a disaster.”
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“On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward and on the saddest days you have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give them a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.”
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“He’s kissing me like the world is rolling right off a cliff, like he’s trying to hang on and he’s decided to hold on to me, like he’s starving for life and love and he’s never known it could ever feel this good to be close to someone. Like it’s the first time he’s ever felt anything but hunger and he doesn’t know how to pace himself, doesn’t know how to eat in small bites, doesn’t know how to do anything anything anything in moderation.”
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“He's looking so deeply into my eyes that I'm surprised I haven't buckled under the intensity and I realize then, right in this moment I realize that everything about him is intense. Nothing about him is manageable or easy to compartmentalize. He's too much. Everything about him is too much. His emotions, his actions, his anger, his aggression. His love.”
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“You can go to hell!"
"Just because I'm going to hell doesn't mean you'll ever deserve her.”
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"Just because I'm going to hell doesn't mean you'll ever deserve her.”
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“Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can't help but try to collect the change and hope it's enough to pay for our mistakes.”
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“Tattoos, for example, are very hard to forget. I think there's something about the impermanence of life these days that makes it necessary to etch ink into our skins. It reminds us that we've been marked by the world, that we're still alive. That we'll never forget.”
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“I want to study the secrets tucked between his elbows and the whispers caught behind his knees. I want to follow the lines of his silhouette with my eyes and the tips of my fingers. I want to trace rivers and valleys along the curved muscles of his body.”
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“He's kissing me like he's lost me and he's found me and I'm slipping away and he's never going to let me go. I want to scream, sometimes, I want to collapse, sometimes, I want to die knowing that I've known what it was like to live with this kiss, this heart, this soft soft explosion that makes me feel like I've taken a sip of the sun, like I've eaten clouds 8,9, and 10.”
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“I like when he tells me that he likes the way I feel because it goes against what I've heard my entire life and I wish I could put his words in my pocket just to touch them once in a while and remind myself that they exist.”
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“Maybe they see something in him, see something in his face, in his features. Maybe they see what I see from this disjointed, foggy perspective. The desperation in his expression, the anguish carved into his features, the way he looks at me, like he might die if I do. And I can't help but think this is an interesting parting gift from the world.”
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“I can’t feel my fingers or the cold or the emptiness of this room because all I feel is him, everywhere,filling everything and he whispers
“P±ô±ð²¹²õ±ð.â€�
He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.�
And he kisses me.”
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“P±ô±ð²¹²õ±ð.â€�
He says “Please don’t shoot me for this.�
And he kisses me.”
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“Incredible. He left me bleeding all over his living floor. What a nice little present for his son to clean up. What a nice little lesson for his son to learn. Fall in love, and you get to watch your love get shot.”
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“I want to scream, sometimes, I want to collapse, sometimes, I want to die knowing that I've known what it was like to live with this kiss, this heart, this soft soft explosion that makes me feel like I've taken a sip of the sun...”
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“I think I must be smiling at him because he's smiling at me, but he's smiling like he might be petrified; he's breathing like he's forgotten he's supposed to, looking at me like he's not sure how to do this, hesitating like he's unsure how to let me see him like this. Like he has no idea how to be so vulnerable.
But here he is.
And here I am.”
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But here he is.
And here I am.”
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“He looks away.
And he smiles.
Its the kind of smile that makes me forget how to do everything but blink and blink and I don't understand what's happening to me. I don't know why I cant convince my eyes to find something else to focus on.
I don't know why my heart is losing its mind.”
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And he smiles.
Its the kind of smile that makes me forget how to do everything but blink and blink and I don't understand what's happening to me. I don't know why I cant convince my eyes to find something else to focus on.
I don't know why my heart is losing its mind.”
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“I don't know what I was expecting.
Maybe I thought I'd catch him trying to break a hole in the wall or maybe he'd be plotting the demise of every person at Omega Point or I don't know I don't know I don't know anything because I only know how to fight an angry body, an insolent creature, an arrogant monster, and I do not know what to do with this.
He's sleeping.”
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Maybe I thought I'd catch him trying to break a hole in the wall or maybe he'd be plotting the demise of every person at Omega Point or I don't know I don't know I don't know anything because I only know how to fight an angry body, an insolent creature, an arrogant monster, and I do not know what to do with this.
He's sleeping.”
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“I didn't sleep at all last night, my heart and mind plagued and conflicted and I cant feel my limbs, I cant taste the food I'm not eating and I cant see straight, I cant focus on the things I'm supposed to be hearing. All I can think about are all the casualties and Warner's lips on my neck, his hands on my body, the pain and passion in his eyes and the many possible ways I could die today. I can only think about Warner touching me, kissing me, torturing me with his heart and Adam sitting beside me, not knowing what I've done.”
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Reading Progress
December 4, 2011
– Shelved
December 4, 2011
– Shelved as:
dystopian
December 4, 2011
– Shelved as:
young-adult
December 4, 2011
– Shelved as:
sci-fi
December 4, 2011
– Shelved as:
romance
February 10, 2013
– Shelved as:
own-physical-copy
March 1, 2013
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Started Reading
March 1, 2013
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38.18%
"Someone wanna tell me when we first see Warner, besides the little glimpse from Destroy Me? So I know what to aim for. :P"
page
176
March 3, 2013
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58.57%
"Juliette is about to walk into Warner's room for the first time and my heart is beating so fast it almost hurts."
page
270
March 3, 2013
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favourites
March 3, 2013
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Finished Reading
March 4, 2013
– Shelved as:
reviewed
June 11, 2018
– Shelved as:
to-reread
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Mar 01, 2013 09:20PM
How are you liking this one so far? I just finished Shatter me and thought it was pretty good.
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Love it. Still only 38% so I can only guess the direction the story will go from here. There has already been a turn or two I didnt see coming, so I am sure it will be quite a ride.So, the most talked about part of the book, how do you like Warner? :P
I love unexpected turn of events! & Warner hmmm he's crazy & obsessed with Juliette, she makes him weak which is interesting, lets see what that weakness does to him in this one. I did enjoy his character, I didn't hate him at all, found him amusing! Lol I'm gonna download this one tonite :)
Yeah, he is very love or hate. Ppl either hate him, enjoy him as a character alone, or love him and want him to end up with Juliette. You should read
first. Its from Warner's POV. Its not absolutely necessary. It reveals a lot about Warner that we didnt know, but I think those things will be also reveal in Unravel Me more slowly.
Great review!!! I agree with most of your points! Can't wait for the next book! It's going to be intense, I can feel it.
Thanks. :) This series has gotten better with each book! Cant wait for 3! Hope it follows the trend. :P
Loved your review, and the fact that you brought up the Will/Tessa/Jem contrast in situations because I feel the same way:D
Mel wrote: "Loved your review, and the fact that you brought up the Will/Tessa/Jem contrast in situations because I feel the same way:D"YAY! So glad you agree. :P You also love Jem but dont necessarily want him with Tess?
Rebecca � Ash, Kishan, Aiden � wrote: "Mel wrote: "Loved your review, and the fact that you brought up the Will/Tessa/Jem contrast in situations because I feel the same way:D"YAY! So glad you agree. :P You also love Jem but dont neces..."
Yes, Jem is my favorite but I fee thatl him being with Tessa is unfair to him in a way because he has no idea Tessa has is in love with Will and has been for a while and I feel like he's been led on a bit. I don't love Will but can acknowledge that he's the one who should be with her.
Basuhi wrote: "ABSOLUTELY love your review.. :)"Thanks so much! :)
Mel wrote: "Rebecca � Ash, Kishan, Aiden � wrote: "Mel wrote: "Loved your review, and the fact that you brought up the Will/Tessa/Jem contrast in situations because I feel the same way:D"
YAY! So glad you agr..."
Yeah, Will is kind of a jerk.
