
Publisher Description:
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.
Review:
4/5
Okay, where to begin?
Let’s start with how I thought this book would plan out, and how wrong I was. I read this book on the premise it was like X -Men. I’d read a quote somewhere citing this, so I got stuck in, expecting awesome superhero kick-butt scenes and powers flying around everywhere like ZAP. But, as above states, I was wrong.
Basically, it’s a romance book. Now I’m not one to shy away from romance. Some of the best books I’ve read have had romance in them. In fact I think romance can sometimes make a book, because it makes you care more for the characters. However, I found the romance in this awfully fast. But that’s just me. As I began reading I loved the writing style. The prose was almost poetic, with similes and metaphors flying about like it was nobody’s business. I found the whole numbers thing very clever, and I loved the scribbled out words, as if we are actually reading Juliette’s diary. But this quickly changed. As I worked through the writing, it became excessive. It became unnecessary. It became annoying. Yes, we get that you can write, you can stop shoving intricate metaphors in our faces now. I just feel the story would’ve flowed much nicer if we hadn’t had to meander for five minutes, reading that she’s walking up mountains made of air.
Also, I was irked by how perfect they are. Every male seems to fall in love with Juliette, and they’re only stopped by the fact if they touch her they’ll die. And the book is rife with depictions of Adam’s perfectly chiseled body. And my God why do they all keep running their hands through their hair?! Stop! It’ll get greasy!
The last few chapters brought this book up a whole star for me. Finally, we got some answers. The plot lines were nicely cinched, but there are still enough loose threads to make we want to read the next book. I was excited about the ideas proposed, and I’m excited to find out what’s going to happen.
So, 4/5 stars. And I’m really looking forward to the next one. Mafi is an excellent writer with a brilliant mind, but some small things stopped this book being perfect for me.