Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
This was a very recent decision and it wasn’t made easily. I’ve only read the first book and I already own the rest of the series, but the first book really wasn’t good (in my opinion). If I continued I may have really enjoyed this series, but I have heard that you need to struggle through the first few books before it gets really good. Who has the time for that? I definitely don’t.
Synopsis: I have a curse
I have a gift
I am a monster
I’m more than human
My touch is lethal
My touch is power
I am their weapon
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.
Mist by Kathryn James
Mist is another one of those books that I found on my Goodreads shelves which I didn’t know was part of a series or didn’t remember reading. Now I do kind of remember reading this…well, I remember the cover at least. So there was really no hope of me finishing a series that I didn’t even know existed.
Synopsis: Midnight: a mist-haunted wood with a bad reputation. A sweet 16 party, and 13-year-old Nell is trying to keep her sister, spoilt birthday-girl, Gwen, out of trouble. No chance. Trouble finds Gwen and drags her through the mist. Only Nell guesses who’s behind the kidnap – the boy she hoped was her friend, the mysterious Evan River.
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