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.
Thoughts:
3.8 stars.
This books has left me with mixed-feelings. In the beginning, I loved this book to no end. I wanted to freaken' go to a courthouse and marry it, the writing was so impeccable. But then the cheesiness and awkwardness started to kick in.
The first part of this book was absolutely astonishing. I was so immersed in her writing style and her writing period. I have to give props to Tahereh, she can definitely write. The feelings and emotions were so raw and real, I was just going nuts with awesomeness overload. Along with that, I loved how some words were crossed out or repeated. It reminded me a lot of Patrick Ness and his Knife of Never Letting Go series (if that's what the series is called), minus the bad grammar. Oh, and can I give a shout-out to all the fellow middle easterners? Whoop-whoop!
I had quite some problems with the characters though, as I usually do in lovey-dovey books. I enjoyed Juliette. I was more fond of her in the beginning, though, as a whole, I appreciated how she usually stood her ground against Waren, not giving in to materials and fighting for what she thought was right. Though she was offered food, clothing, and comfort, she wouldn't dare kill or torture someone just for her own petty yearnings. But for some reason, her weakness was Adam. To me, though he develops a bit more towards the end, I felt he was a bit naive, maybe a tad impulsive. And for some reason, I sort of wanted them to be in the same situation, maybe try to escape out of the asylum together. Like Katniss and Peeta, I would have preferred if they worked together and gradually fell in love, not 2 minutes of talking then full on make-out in shower.
The make-out sessions. That was part of the story I had a problem with. Have you ever been in a situation where your friend or some random couple are making out next to you, and you have no idea how to react? That was pretty much how I felt. An onlooker, pretty much standing there awkwardly waiting for them to get up for breath. There's only one word that I can use to describe those scenes. Awkward (which coincidentally could be used to describe me). And was it me, or did she have some gasping problem. Nobody possibly has that many gasps.
Though the story line could've used a bit of an adjustment, I definitely devoured this book.
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