![]() ![]() I was rooting for her the entire book, and her transformation and self-actualization was such an engrossing journey. I understood her fears and I sympathized for her so much. I haven’t lived a life anywhere near Shirin’s, but being in her head made sense. From powerful moments to funny, relatable moments to important moments to cute moments, I was glued onto the pages. I’m not even exaggerating when I say that probably 50% of this ebook’s text is highlighted. But here I am at 8 AM, staring at the acknowledgments page of my eARC. I don't think I've read a book in one sitting since high school. Please please please support this book and the author behind it because she and the book deserve the world <3 It’s a stand-out book of 2018, and definitely an exception you should make if you aren't a fan of YA contemporary. Its unparalleled honesty had me throwing my fist in the hair during some scenes and wiping away tears in others. Whatever small writing or plot issues I have with it makes up in the fact that I haven’t read anything as important and eye-opening as this before. Nevertheless, this is a once in a lifetime book. I don't want this to look like I'm minimizing the actual events because clearly Shirin prevailing and asserting her worth in that situation was still such a powerful read, but I wish Ocean's conflict that drives the emotional climax of this book could have been designed to be less. The stakes were so low because it felt too cliché and the conflict of this book reminded me of High School Musical. It felt like a flat plot point that’s a totally overused trope. not wanting to be on the basketball team. Shirin deals with racism and xenophobia and bigotry, and Ocean deals with. The reason why I took a star off is because the relationship is melodramatic to the point of being cliche. I sympathized with her so much that my heart hurt. I can’t put my finger on it, but this book just. He was definitely my favorite side character! Their bond was endearing and I liked how he was her mentor and cheered her up and stuck up for her and was the reason she got into break dancing. I LOVED Shirin’s relationship with her brother, Navid. It’s different and it’s jarring, but it fits the story. Gone are the flowery paragraphs of images and metaphors, but they’re replaced by hard-hitting and steel edged descriptions of Shirin’s real life. This book cuts the crap from Shatter Me & Furthermore’s writing style and says it how it is. Despite this, I was highlighting paragraphs basically every other page because Shirin’s experiences and anger born from them was so powerful. ![]() ![]() I was nervous starting this book because the first 25% of this lays a lot of groundwork and there’s a lot of telling instead of showing. Updating with my full thoughts now that the book is out! I wrote all of this down when I first read it in May. It terrifies her-they seem to come from two irreconcilable worlds-and Shirin has had her guard up for so long that she’s not sure she’ll ever be able to let it down. He’s the first person in forever who really seems to want to get to know Shirin. Instead, she drowns her frustrations in music and spends her afternoons break-dancing with her brother.īut then she meets Ocean James. So she’s built up protective walls and refuses to let anyone close enough to hurt her. She’s tired of the rude stares, the degrading comments-even the physical violence-she endures as a result of her race, her religion, and the hijab she wears every day. Shirin is never surprised by how horrible people can be. It’s an extremely turbulent time politically, but especially so for someone like Shirin, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl who’s tired of being stereotyped. From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Shatter Me series comes a powerful, heartrending contemporary novel about fear, first love, and the devastating impact of prejudice. ![]()
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