Fantastic Finds: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

A Quick Introduction

Title: Shatter Me
Author: Tahereh Mafi
Publisher: Harper
Publishing Date: 15th November 2011

The Synopsis (by Goodreads)
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.

Flashback Friday: Every Day by David Levithan

Every Day's international cover

A Quick Introduction

Title: Every Day

Author: David Levithan

Publisher: Ember

Year: 2012

Synopsis: Every morning, A wakes in a different person’s life, learning through the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon.

Featured Reviews

“Wise, and wildly unique.” – Entertainment Weekly

“I’ve never read a book like David Levithan’s Every Day. I didn’t just read this book- I inhaled it.” – Jodi Picoult, author of Lone Wolf and Between the Lines

“Genius concept, brilliantly written. Every Day is David Levithan at his very best, and that is very, very good.” – Ellen Hopkins, author of Crank

“A story that is always alluring, oftentimes humorous, and much like love itself- splendorous.” – Los Angeles Times