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Разбий ме by Tahereh Mafi, Техере Мафи

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notbambi's review against another edition

dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

It has a lot of potential, but it's not great so far. I liked enough about it that I'll probably read the next one. The dystopia plot and worldbuilding take a backseat to romance, which isn't always a bad thing, but I did feel like what was there outside of the romance was very thin and moved too quickly to care much about.

I liked a lot about the protagonist and the erratic voice of her narration (I know that this is apparently a polarizing aspect of the book, but it really worked for me!). I preferred the early chapters where she is dealing with her isolation and loneliness, something that I feel like isn't addressed in a satisfying way later in the book - she just sort of feels better because she's got Adam. On the other hand, he is the first person to be able to touch her, and this is the first in a series, so maybe something will happen later to make her realize that being in love doesn't magically fix trauma.

I know from the TikTok stans how this love triangle is going to play out, and I'm very curious to see how Mafi is going to play it.

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laleh_eve's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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nickysbookcorner's review against another edition

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There’s mention of young children’s death and a scene where a toddler is tortured.

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emis_books's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

It’s written a little confusing in the beginning, but it’s reflecting the main characters condition. Just pull through it, it get’s better.
I was able to read it very fast, there were often a few repetitions.
I really wanted to know why so many people love Aaron Warner that much, until now i honestly can’t really understand it. Just sometimes slightly.

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baileyyyym's review against another edition

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adventurous tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Loveable characters? It's complicated

3.0

I read this on audiobook, and I'm glad I did. If it was physical or digital, I probably would've put it down after three pages of Juliette's internal monologue.

For a YA book, this seemed very sexual. I don't care about Adam's warm chest or hard abs or perfect figure or how he lights you up. Basically Juliette is a 17 year old walking disaster with a good heart who can't stop thinking about Adam's body. There's a bad guy who's probably going to end up good. Adam will get first main love interest syndrome. Juliette slowly discovers it's nice to wreck and shoot things - but is in denial.

I'll still listen to the next one.

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lolajh's review against another edition

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dark emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I’m so confused on who the target audience is for this???? There’s scenes like

Warner making Juliette torture that baby

but then it’s written so much like a child 😭😭 The writing is seriously so underdeveloped and irritating, like with the weird repetition of words with no commas like “I want to be angry angry angry” or similes and metaphors that make no sense (not to mention the sheer amount of times the word shatter was mentioned dude) and it all took away from an admittedly promising premise of a story but just with poor execution. Like the concept of this 1984-esque dystopian world and Juliette

among many others

having this dangerous condition and a traumatic upbringing and her whole experience in the asylum was all very promising, like I loved the beginning of this book. I really just think the romance ruined it a bit. I feel like the book would have really benefited from the delving into and working on of Juliette’s trauma and that she recovered her sense of self independently from others before diving into romance. It was just very strange to me to have these raw and emotional scenes with Juliette and Adam and then

having near-sex scenes in a fucking tank or in the very next room to Adam’s ten year old brother???? I especially found that shower scene so incredibly strange because of how quick it escalated from Juliette baring so much emotion and trauma to then Adam picking her up and putting her in the shower and then kissing her?? Like I do think Adam all in all is an ‘okay’ guy, apart from him ignoring Juliette’s consent to not touch her several times but most of their romance scenes were just so off putting in context.

And let’s talk about fucking Warner. I’ve read the descriptions of later books in the series and have seen him alllllll over tiktok so I know how things with him end up going, but right now he is anything but redeemable in my eyes. He’s psychotic and creepy, and his advances towards Juliette are nothing but rape-y.

Juliette accepting his advances before shooting him was assault. She didn’t have any choice at all; it was either let Warner…do that, or she would die. And I fucking hate that in that scene, Juliette starts to enjoy it, that she hadn’t, what, realised that she wanted it? That’s a dangerous thing to portray for sure, because that’s how rapists think! In my eyes, there is so way in hell their relationship can develop to be something where they can end up together in a healthy manner. I don’t care if he’s traumatised or has the ability to “change”, there is no coming back from that. He’s scary and I probably will be dropping this series because I cannot even handle that happening.

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rosmariinireads's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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neliadiedenise's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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madamenovelist's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

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abicaro17's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny mysterious medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

So far this series is really good! I think this first book is a lot of world building and character introductions. The middle of the book seems like the beginning. I am very glad there are more books to expand on Juliette and Warner. I so far don't trust Adam and love Kenji and Juliette. I think the world building works very well it just means the into is super slow.

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