Restore Me (Shatter Me Book 4) Paperback – March 5, 2019

Love this series and the ending is just wow😳😳i cant wait to start the next book. Kenji is my fav so far

I first read the Shatter Me series in 2015 and I was in love, I was trying to tell everyone I knew to read them (ugh I wish I had bookworm friends in real life!) and I was going back to read over specific scenes and chapters that had me swooning. This series is a dystopian, young adult, paranormal, romance, sci-fi mix and I really loved it. This series starts out with Juliette and us being providing only a small window to look out into the world, small introductions to just a few characters, and this slowly increases throughout the series. Initially I would have said we got to walk through a fully open door by the end of book three but wow did book four change my mind on this.Instead of walking through a fully opened door at the end of the book three I honestly think we were still just looking through a crack or peep hole, perhaps with the door just being blown back as it ended but never walking through. Sorry for the metaphors... ugh I think this series kinda just does that to you. Anyways, Juliette & co have accomplished a lot by the end of book three but the whole wide world is now open to them and looking at them and there were a lot of unanswered questions about what they were going to do now. Also the character development is honestly so good in the first three books but really everyone is standing on this precipice at the end that it's clear they aren't done being tested or done growing into themselves.I found out about the fourth book just a few months before it was due to come out and I was so excited to just be back in that world and drool all over Warner again (Team Warner!! Sorry not sorry!!). But I never stopped to consider that although things ended on a precipice in the previous book, things were mostly good with and between the characters. I started reading the fourth book and suddenly it dawned on me that with this book, and two more still to come, bad things were going to happen to the characters, their world, and their relationships. And I just could not deal you guys!! I could not make myself binge read it! I was having SO much anxiety feeling like if I kept reading I was essentially making the bad things happen to my friends beloved characters.And guess what?! Bad things did happen!!!!!!!! But not in a way that the book was bad, but that you gotta have your characters go through a big fat storm first for there to be any payout in the end with *hopes* of a happy ending.Remember my window/peephole, cracked door metaphor? Well the world definitely got bigger in book four but we're still so blinded by the limited view and knowledge that Juliette has. If the door was blast off in the third book than all the fourth book did was introduce as to another door down the hall that's barely cracked. And I feel pretty confident that the only way we're gonna see our happy ending is if Juliette can rip all the doors off and figure out exactly what the heck is going in her world and see it clearly for what is it. Also I'd really like that because I have SO many questions!!! I think Mafi did an awesome job with this book building more to the world and history to our characters and making it so seamless like it was always her intent to continue the story with this information.Juliette's development in the book is a confusing mix of positive self love, utilizing coping skills from her old self hate, and then complete combustion. The other character's didn't seem to develop much at all and honestly I didn't feel like we got to see any of them much. Warner possibly had some development in the learning how to be a person way but mostly he was disintegrating too. (Their POV go back and forth between chapters). I disliked that we kept getting excerpts from Juliette's old journal, I skimmed all of it but I got it's point as a device in the book.The tone and mood of the book was very emo and honestly reminded me of what the 5th Harry Potter book did. Lack of communication between characters was causing problems, our main character is freaking out that things aren't fair etc etc, our other main character's are all grieving and moody and avoiding everyone, we learn some shocking truths about our main character, things go south real hard, we lose some (or lots) of people, and *hopefully* our main characters have learned a valuable lesson in how they've screwed up real bad and now they gotta deal and fix things.One pet peeve: our two love interests obviously hit some rocks during this book and they were SO EMO about it. I get that whatever, they're teenagers with a lot on their plate and poor social and emotional skills but ugh. Girl, calm the eff down. and Boy, you going on about I can't believe she used to love me once, when you "broke-up" YESTERDAY! Love doesn't turn off like that, dummies.I definitely recommend this series so far but f you like to binge read with a happy ending in sight then I suggest starting with the first half and not picking up book four until five and six are on their way. Ugh I so hate waiting for the next book in a series to come out...Recommended for fans of the series so far, and fans of young adult dystopians and paranormal romance.

I just absolutely love the Shatter me series and every book has kept me engaged wanting more! Each as good as the previous.

I LOVED THIS BOOK.I REPEAT: I LOVED THIS BOOK.No one is more surprised than me by just how much I loved this book. In fact, I am so fond of this book that I wanted to immediately start reading it again as soon as I finished reading it.Honestly, the Shatter Me series has never been one of my favorites. Sure, I like it, and I was excited when I saw the news that Tahereh Mafi was planning on releasing (3?) new books in the series, but I wasn’t excited to the point of being over the moon about the new additions.It’s been a while since I have read the original three books in this series, and at some point (hopefully soon) I need to go back and give them a reread to see if my opinions on each book has changed. I really loved the third book in the series, Ignite Me (BECAUSE, WARNETTE) but from what I can remember, I thought the first book was just okay, while I had a hard time making it through Unravel Me, the second book in the series.But there is one thing I have loved about each of the books in the series, despite any negative opinions I may have had, and that is Tahereh’s beautiful writing style. Her writing is just so unique, and it is that very reason that I continued reading this series, despite the fact that I wasn’t captivated by the plot of the first book.Restore Me follows the aftermath of the events of Ignite Me, and shit gets real.I loved everything about this book. The plot. The character development. The Writing.It was so interesting to see how Juliette, a 17 year old, would handle all the power suddenly at her exposure, as she is the new head of Sector 45.This book is told in alternating view points, from the perspectives of Juliette and Warner. I really love that Tahereh decided to tell the story this way and give us glimpse into their thoughts and everything they were feeling, as they both had so much going on, internally and externally.In the midst of everything they are already dealing with, they hit some snags in their relationship, and although I wanted them to be living happily ever after forever and ever with no problems whatsoever, the relationship problems they are facing are very realistic and its understandable that the problems in which they are facing come into play. (But they better get that happily ever after!)Due to everything Juliette and Warner are dealing with, and everything that they have endured within their pasts, they are both naturally struggling with anxiety, and I was especially drawn towards Warner’s struggles with anxiety. Everything he was feeling in regards to his anxiety was understandable, given everything he has been through in life, and the way in which his anxiety was described was just so painfully real. As someone who struggles with anxiety on a daily basis, I was very impressed with the way in which Tahereh described what its like to be suffocated by anxiety. I wanted to reach into the pages of this book and give Warner a hug.As for my thoughts on Juliette: she is wonderful and amazing and so strong and I am so proud of her for everything she has overcome and everything that she has achieved thus far and I can’t wait to see what she accomplishes next. You are doing amazing sweetie, and I am rooting for you every step of the way.This book also features some of my favorite chapters/scenes from the Shatter Me series so far. The scenes I speak of all are scenes that include Warner/Juliette and Warner/Kenji.Also: Kenji is his usual wonderful, perfect self and my love for him continues to grow as the series progresses. Just wanted to throw that out there.AND THAT ENDING. I am still at a loss for words. I need the next book and I need it now!Okay, I am going to end this review here, as I know what I have written is a rambling mess and I will more than likely come back and edit the entire thing at some point. I just want it to be known that I loved Restore Me and I will be impatiently counting down the days until the release of the next book!