James is taken care of by others because Adam must live with the other soldiers to the brother's knowledge, both of their parents are dead. Adam eventually helps Juliette escape from Warner, and as they escape, Warner's hand brushes against Juliette's ankle, revealing that Warner also can touch Juliette without consequence.Īdam and Juliette run away to where Adam's 10-year-old brother James lives, a small apartment Adam helped to make. It is revealed that Adam knew Juliette prior to the asylum, and is in love with her, and that he can touch Juliette without being harmed or killed. During her captivity, Juliette develops a romantic relationship with Adam. Warner wants to feel the full effects of Juliette's power, but she refuses to touch or hurt him, so he forces her to torture a soldier named Jenkins and a small child through a simulated torture room. Warner, who is also the son of the Reestablishment's Supreme Commander, makes Juliette an offer that includes her being able to get out of the asylum in turn for her torturing any prisoners with her touch as a weapon for the Reestablishment. It is revealed that Adam is a soldier for Aaron Warner, the leader of Sector 45 of the Reestablishment. One day, the Reestablishment, a government that has the world within its grasp, comes for Juliette. She shows Adam the ways of the asylum, such as not to eat the scalding food immediately, and when the asylum's occupants are allowed to shower. He reminds Juliette of someone, but she convinces herself that it is not possible that she ever knew him. Suddenly, for the first time ever, Juliette gets a cellmate who goes by the name of Adam Kent. She repeatedly dreams of a bird and writes in a small notebook. It is evident that Juliette is partly insane, both from prolonged isolation and at horror at herself. Juliette is in an asylum because three years prior, she killed a small boy in a store with her unusual touch.

Juliette Ferrars is a 17-year-old girl whose touch paralyzes and kills, taking living organisms' energy. Of her inspirations for the work, Mafi has stated that she drew inspiration from 'an interest in human nature and ability to overcome great obstacles'.

The seventh and final book, Believe Me, was published on November 11, 2021. The sixth book, Imagine Me, was published on March 31, 2020. The fifth book, Defy Me, was published on April 2, 2019. The fourth book, Restore Me, was published on March 6, 2018. The third book, Ignite Me, was published on February 4, 2014. The second book in the series, Unravel Me, was published on February 5, 2013. Shatter Me is the first of a series of six books. The book is narrated by Juliette, a 17-year-old girl with a lethal touch and is unusual in that it contains passages and lines that have been crossed out like a diary entry.

Shatter Me is a young adult dystopian thriller written by Tahereh Mafi, published on November 15, 2011.

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