Shatter Me: Volume 1

This book is way too much melodrama and not nearly enough meat. I love series books, but each book should stand alone. This book was like half a story. Worse yet, the main character is a blithering idiot who makes every minute detail into a painfully long drivel of emotional vomit. I can't fathom how this is a successful series among anyone other than maybe the boy band fan crowd...even then, as a parent, I'd never want my teen or tween daughter to read it. The ridiculous love story is about a healthy a concept to feed to young girls as pornography is to feed to young boys to explore their attitudes toward sex. We don't need girls reading the equivalent of tween/teen fairy tales with these types of silly characters. It is insulting to what young women can and are interested in to pander them this kind of trash.

i read this book a couple years ago and have read over a hundred more since then. This book is one of my all-time favorites and I highly recommend it. The wording used can be hard for some to understand because in this first book of the series it is mostly of her highly charged emotional thoughts rather than actions, but it is also very poetic and realistic in regards to how you would be feeling and thinking in her situation. It allows the reader to become very involved and more than just empathetic to the situation. You become so emersed in her world its as though you actually feel everything she feels. Hopefully that explains why I highly recommend this book and I hope it may helps to sway anyone who may be considering it. Also as a quick side note.. the books do become more action packed and intense to the point where at times you're litteraly sitting on the edge of your seat, heart racing with excitement, fear, suspence, pride, confusion; reading as fast as you can. great book.

I think the overall story is awesome, but the first half of the book is a hard read in that you are dealing with a heavily emotional girl who is afraid of her own skin. The author creates this heavy feeling by repeating the girl's same thoughts over and over again so it drones on and on about how the girl feels insane. The author uses crossing out of words as her way of you knowing her thoughts which I find kind of annoying. When I first started reading the novel and I saw words crossed out, my immediate thought was that I bought a book that wasn't proofread and I didn't receive the final copy or something. Then I figured out what the author was trying to do, but I felt it was unnecessary in that she could of portrayed the thoughts in italicized words instead of cross outs. If you stick to the book and give it a chance the story picks up and you'll want to read the next one