Title: Ignite Me
Author: Tehereh Mafi
Publisher/Year: HarperCollins 2/4/14
Length: 416 Pages
Series: Shatter Me Trilogy #3
Overview
One day I might break
One day I might break free
Nothing will ever be the same.
The fate of Omega Point is unknown. Everyone Juliette has ever cared about could be dead. The war could be over before it ever really began.
Juliette is the only one standing in The Reestablishment’s way. She knows that if she’s going to survive, The Reestablishment cannot.
But to take down The Reestablishment and the man who very nearly killed her, Juliette will need the help of the one person she never thought she could trust: Warner. And as they work together to bring down their enemy, Juliette will discover that everything she thought she knew—about Warner, her abilities, and even Adam—was wrong.
One day I might break
One day I might break free
Nothing will ever be the same.
The fate of Omega Point is unknown. Everyone Juliette has ever cared about could be dead. The war could be over before it ever really began.
Juliette is the only one standing in The Reestablishment’s way. She knows that if she’s going to survive, The Reestablishment cannot.
But to take down The Reestablishment and the man who very nearly killed her, Juliette will need the help of the one person she never thought she could trust: Warner. And as they work together to bring down their enemy, Juliette will discover that everything she thought she knew—about Warner, her abilities, and even Adam—was wrong.
My Thoughts
I was sooo excited when this final installment in the trilogy finally became available in my library. it’s like after all that we have gone through with these guys, discovering that there are people out there that have super powers, a complicated love triangle, assumptions of people’s deaths – i knew that we were going to get a great story out of Ms. Mafi.
We pick up right where Fracture Me leaves us off. Omega Point has been destroyed, Juliette has been killed/kidnapped depending on who you are talking to, and there are very few survivors among the Omega Point folks. It’s chaos, and destruction all around.
One of the over-arching things that we get in this book is the sense of self that Juliette finally has. She’s come to terms with what she is and finally realizes that she’s not weak and insignificant. She comes into her own, and decides that she is going to take action since she’s the one with the most strength, (mental and physical) and she’s going to somehow get her friends to help her. The decision is to overthrow the Re-Establishment which is no easy task. Warner is on her side, but Adam, well, that’s an entirely different story.
This love triangle between them makes things so much more complicated. J knows how she feels about Adam, which isn’t quite the same as he feels about her, and Warner has proclaimed his love for her, but J isn’t sure if that’s what she feels or if she’s in a place to be able to reciprocate. That’s definitely one of the big themes of the story as well.
Kenji, Kenji, Kenji …..he brings a certain level of humor and levity to this story which is really needed at times since there’s so much despair that we get through this story. I actually laughed out loud. His sense of humor is so overt that it’s a welcome distraction. He also continues to be a certain strength that’s core to the story that I’m glad that the author decided to continue to focus on him.
So….what we really have is a final installment where there’s a coming of age of a sense, knew information coming to a head about family ties, secrets revealed, and a whole lot of stress about who’s going to survive, which side will win and what that means for the friends.
I really enjoyed where this story took us, but i do have to say that the ending left me a little wanting. It felt kind of like it was open – based on the last few lines that were written. I just wonder if it was done on purpose – so that we could get an additional novella or something, but the acknowledgements in the back didn’t imply such a thing. There were also a few questions left out there for me, and a few things that were a bit too tidy.
1) how come James was always so safe and innocent? Yes, he’s 10, but i feel like 10 year olds these days know a lot about what’s going on around them, and if this is in the future, 10 is like the new 16
2) who was that guy with Anderson on the ship? why did J recognize him?
3) what’s going to happen next? i feel like there’s a good story there
Anyway, i’m really happy that i took the journey with this story if for no other reason than to see J and Adam and Warner grow up. There’s an added level of maturity in this installment since we see a relationship go to another level – in a PG-13 sort of way 🙂 I hope you guys enjoy it as much as i did!