Defy Me Paperback – April 4, 2019

I absolutely love that Defy Me is narrated by Juliette, Warner, and Kenji. It really has to be since they are all split up, but I do enjoy being in Kenji’s head. So much happens in this book. I had no idea where it was going at the end of the previous book but whatever I thought might happen it wasn’t this. There was just one thing after another. As always the writing was incredible. I really don’t know how this is going to get wrapped up in one more book! I recommend it to everyone who enjoys the Shatter Me series of course.

Loved it!

I love the Shatter Me series. I remember reading the first book not long after it came out years ago. I suffered through the waiting period for books 2 & 3. I feel books 1 - 3 are worthy of 5/5 stars. I love them! However, with this being the 5th book I feel really disappointed.This book is told from three points of view - Kenji, Warner (Aaron), and Juliette (Ella). I know lots of people who are a fan of the books love Kenji and I do too. I remember the 'we want more Kenji' fan service days. I think he has some of the best lines in the book. However, with this book I miss having only Juliettes point of view. When you strip back this book and look at the whole plot there isn't much substance to it. This is because the book is spread out over three points of view.Personally, and I feel the need to add that because you may disagree, that this story would have had more justice with one point of view. Kenji is great and all, but he would have been better as a spin-off book or a book that is set as Kenji's POV to the events that happen in the story. In the fourth book I quite enjoyed seeing Warners point of view, however, I don't think it was necessary. The success of books 1 - 3 proved that having only Juliettes POV did well to tell a story. Don't get me wrong I love seeing inside Warners mind. I just feel it would've been a similar case to Kenji - his own POV of the events in his own book or even a chapter at the end of the book that allows us to peer inside his mind.~ SPOILERS BELOW ~So the book begins with Juliette and Warner missing. We kick off with a lot of Kenji and Warner POV's I was beginning to think that Juliette wasn't going to have a POV. I understand the importance of Kenji's POV being to fill us in on everything that happens at sector 45 since Juliette is gone, however, I feel that could have been a whole chapter conversation later in the book between Kenji and Juliette, rendering his POV's kind of pointless.With Juliette I feel the big build up, to put it in the simplest of terms, from book one was about who is she and where did she come from. Better yet, who are her parents? In this book I was hoping lots of answers would be given. Nope. Not really. Really quick and brief about who they are and what they do. Most of the time in Juliette's POV she was drugged up and barely awake. It just involved a lot of her past memories coming back for most of the book. I was hoping for more information about her parents. I just feel the 'family storyline' needed more substance and this would have come from more Juliette POV's in the beginning, before her past memories started coming to her.In terms of her and Warner's rescue I would've thought a more in-depth POV from Kenji would've happened, especially since Kenji seems to be in this book a lot. That was not the case. He just kind of turns up with Nazeera. I knew they were going to rescue her after he got tricked into thinking Nazeera was batting for the other team. However, there was no plan or full length conversation. He just turns up in one of Juliettes POV's... That's just me nit-picking though.So far I don't seem to feel Kenji's POV is nothing but a fan service and completely taking up potential plot substance from what could have been more Juliette POV's. I'm going to stop complaining and give my vision for what this story could have been. I'll keep it brief and to the point.>> HERE IS HOW I WISH THE STORY WENT... all from Juliettes POV! If you haven't read the book this might not make sense.Beginning - Wakes up in an unfamiliar place. Attempts to find out where she is. Parents show up and over the course of a few chapters they get her into a false sense of security. She believes they are good. She learns a bit about her past and the Reestablishment from them. Happy family right? I understand she will be concerned about Warner and her friends, however, I'm sure that some kind of illusion (like at the end of book 4) could be done to make her think they are safe (fooling even us readers into thinking they are okay). As we near the middle of the book Juliette stumbles upon photos of her and Warner at different age levels, sparking the memories of them coming back to her. She starts to suspect something isn't quite right and this sparks her need to find out.Middle - As she starts to dig for information her parents start to show their true colours. This is when all the horrible things that actually were written in book 5 actually happen to Juliette. Kenji and Warner rescue Juliette (yes Warner is never at the same place as Juliette like its told in the book). During the rescue this is when Anderson is found to be alive! They bump into him during their escape. Warner attempts to kill him and that is when they see him heal right before their eyes, realising that he has the power to 'sort-of' heal.On the plane a conversation about what actually happened at sector 45 when she went missing - this is where we find out what happened to her friends and the sector.End - The same ending that happened in the book.

This book is so he revenge story of all children who have suffered abused in their life, it’s about children growing up and becoming adults healing their wounds and choosing a different life!!!!

I have flown through books 3 through 5 this week. Can't wait to see what book 6 entails. Keeps getting better and better. Would make a great TV series.

Amazing books. You won’t go wrong with this series.

*warning this text may content spoilers*OMG:okay first let's talk about what i loved about this amaizing book (with spoilers) so if you haven't read the book: go, run, buy it ,enjoy it, and then come back.. love the ending, maybe it was't that misterious, but it was super cute ahhh!!!. I love kenji: super funny and sarcastic, he is always there for me (and julliete,warner , adam , james etc) when I need him!!.love #warnette #teamwarnerforever.warner: just amaizing,he is in my "top ten literary boyfriends" he loves julliete<spolier>/ ella so much he <spoiler>asked her to marry him<spoiler>and she said "yes"#love.Tahareh Mafi writing is amaizing, I repeat amaizing !!!.<spoiler>i loved that Tahareh incororated kenji's perspective in this one (without counting warnette's perspective).the flasbacks I just loved them!!!.juliette's chapters where so emotionaly written I felt they where so beautiful.. <spoiler>Nazeera and kenji; jajajajaja kenji was so cute and funny !!!.<spoiler>anderson is't dead!!!.<spoiler> getting to know Emmaline is amizing, but heartfull knowing how evie treated her and that she wants to julliette/ella to kill her,is so sad!!.<spoiler> how julliette killed evie; ja !!.I think that's all i'm going to say!!now what are the reasons it has 4 stars?? if you wanna find out keep reading!!.first of all ; yeah it cleared the mistery of "fracture me", but there was never a climax !!.there was something missing that " ignite me" had..the end i'd hoped it was misterious like " fracture me " "ingite me " "shatter me" or even "unvreal me".I think that's allhope you like it xoxo "beyond life beyond dead my love for thee is eternal" By: Gace Anathomy

The grip this series has one me… is intense. Knowing that there is only two novellas and a finale between me and the end is upsetting. And yet I can’t put these books down.My work productivity has never been worse

DNF at 61%⚠️ Spoilers ahead ⚠️Ok, where to begin?!Generally speaking, when a series does well and then is extended years later, the result is disappointing. This book (and the Restore Me series in general) is a great example of this rule. The ending of Ignite Me #3 should of been tidier, and then the series should of been finished. Finito. Done, and left alone!When we learnt that Anderson was still alive, I was not even shocked. To quote Kenji, "I sigh[ed] so hard I nearly hurt myself." I saw it coming a mile away. His death was so rushed and messy, that I foresaw his resurrection at the moment of his death! So when Warner/Aaron (whatever you want to call him. I don't even know at this point) killed him again, in yet another unrealistic, messy plot twist, I was done.All of the "resolutions" to earlier plot twists - from the aforementioned resurrection to the cliched amnesia - were farfetched and ridiculous. I took offence to the following sentence during a bout of said amnesia inducing brain washing; "..but I only lie there, a perfect vegetable, as she strips me down." I accept that the word may not of been used in the context in which I read it, but the connotations of the word 'vegetable' are well known.One aspect that I did like was the play on Juliette's (or Ella's... Honestly, are any of the characters going to have the same name at the end of this series?!) name."'That girl was sentenced to death,' he says viciously, 'the moment I named her Juliette.'"However, if Mafi is to be true to the storyline of Shakespeare's Juliet, then surely the ending is a foretold conclusion?"'This is Juliette,' Mr. Anderson says, and looks me over. 'Tragic'-he sighs-'just like her namesake.'"

Well that was a whole set of twists and turns I did not see coming. Never the less I absolutely bloody loved it. In my wildest dream I never anticipated such a phenomenal story. Up till this point Julie... sorry Ella's story has been pretty epic and a huge whirlwind. From being imprisoned in the asylum to first meeting Warner and being his captive. To her meeting Adam and James and every one at Omega Point. To where they are today, never imagining they would ever come this far.I really didn't expect to fall in love with this series of books and the characters as much as I have and Defy Me only added to that. I love that even when you think you know where Tahereh is taking the story she complete shocks and surprises you with the direction she does go in.Defy Me gives you more. More background. More drama. More hope. More Ella. More Kenji. More.

Without exaggeration, this is the best series of book I have read. From the first book, each one after that got better than the other. The development of characters is just so good, that you don't only get attached to Juliette and Warner, but all the secondary characters as well. I just can't wait for the last book!

I really enjoyed this book and the series so far. I found it hard to put it down and read 5 books in about 3 days. I really recommend it to all that love dystopian adventures.

I have have loved reading these books. I am so invested in these people's lives I need to know what happens.