Title: Restore Me
Author: Tehereh Mafi
Publisher/Year: HarperCollins Publishing 3/6/18
Length: 255 Pages
Series: Shatter Me #4
Overview
The girl with the power to kill with a single touch now has the world in the palm of her hand.
Juliette and Warner’s story continues in the electrifying fourth installment of Tahereh Mafi’s New York Timesbestselling Shatter Me series.
Juliette Ferrars thought she’d won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander of North America, and now has Warner by her side. But when tragedy strikes, she must confront the darkness that dwells both around and inside her.
Who will she become in the face of adversity? Will she be able to control the power she wields, and use it for good?
My Thoughts
To be honest, i didn’t think that there would be a book 4, and i had a hard time remembering where we had left off in book 3, but i’m glad that i stuck it out for those first few chapters. What we have here is an interesting continuation of the story that had a potential pause with Juliette taking over North America, and now we’ve restarted it all.
This next installment takes us to a point in time where Juliette is overwhelmed, still reliant on Kenji to be her best friend and source of guidance, and still madly in love with Warner. the challenge there though is that Warner is in a tough head space in this book, and we see that life gets in the way of love – so you really don’t have a true sense of where these two are going to net out. They can’t ever seem to catch a break now can they?
The journey in this book is one where the other supreme commanders are now ultra curious about who Juliette is and what she’s done and will do – so they send their children to the sector to uncover secrets. We meet a few interesting people who we aren’t yet sure we’re able to trust, and along with them, a LOT of secrets are revealed.
We learn that Juliette isn’t at all what she seemed and what she thought she was, and sadly it was Warner who was guided to learn the truth (Castle is the bearer of information it seems) and as a result, he’s put in a position where telling Juliette what he knows means that he may lose her.
Her past is definitely not what we were led to believe, and how she got to the asylum and what her role is in life now are coming to the forefront of this story. We are left with more questions than answers for sure, and the twist at the end makes us really wonder if anything that we knew from the first 3 books was real.
We meed Haider and Nazeera in this book – the children of the supreme commander of Asia, and they play an interesting role. We’re never quite sure what to make of them, they aren’t really honest with their words or actions, but what comes out as they interact more and more with Juliette and Warner, it is a huge shock and potentially story changing.
When Juliette’s life is put in danger not once but twice in this story, we start to see who really is on what side, and question what we know even more. The set up for book 5 really is nicely done, leaving us on a cliff that makes you really wonder what’s going to happen and what does that means for life as everyone knows it.
There’s one other aspect to this story that we only really saw in the later installments of the first few books. The romance between Warner and Juliette started slow, and now is hot and intense for a YA book. You can see how they are teenagers but they feel for each other in a much more mature sense, and the way that their love and passion comes through is genuine, and yet fairly appropriate for the nature of the book.
Anyhow – i can’t wait now for book 5, and i hope that you guys catch up on this series.
