Restore Me (Shatter Me Book 4) Paperback – March 5, 2019

I loved the Shatter Me series so much that I feel safe to say that they are the best of a kind. After first two books in the series, I enjoyed even the cliffhangers. Tahereh Mafi is such a brilliant writer aka storyteller that such hater of cliffhangers as me enjoyed the waiting so much. I anticipated it even... welcomed that feeling with open arms...When reading the first book, I hated Warner, but I did not understand his motives and wanted to know more..Then came the second book and I started to feel like I liked him a bit, sometimes I caught myself hoping that he will be together with Juliette...and hated Adam a little...Then came the third book. I waited for it to be published real long.... and it was even better than second book. The HEA was a good one and I finally felt like - that’s it! it is enough! Although, the series ended, I still loved all the books and there was no feeling for the next book... and now (today) I got the Restore Me as I pre-ordered it at that very moment when I got the information regarding further development of the series.... I am ruined for real. I do not know how I will operate until the next 2 promised books will be released...I still think that Tahereh Mafi had no need to do this - to prolong the series, but I am an addict... so now I am addicted even more. Warner and Juliette and the whole series are my addiction.... this is crazy.Although, some of the early readers have written that they do not understand what was wrong with the Juliette and Warner’s relationship, I feel that their difficulties were a must, first, because you cannot have 3 more books with HEA in each of them and, second, it feels natural - you cannot expect that a boy, who had hated his father so much (but still loved him, too, as do a lot of children), would not feel like a lost puppy after his death... death that happened by his lover’s hand. And what is more important - now their relationship faces reality, that reality, which they did not want to see in their soap bubble. Juliette do not know the real Aaron, she knows close to nothing about him. He is like a blank page for her... and now she has just landed on the ground face down from the realizations..The book contains a very interesting and true idea - you cannot change world in one day and think that you as a leader will have no responsibilities and everyday work...The ending is JUST WOW!! I want to reread the whole series, especially the first book now...Actually, Tahereh did it again - she made me to wish there were another book to read... but nooo... there is none... and this addict (me) is going to wait...

I first read the Shatter Me series in 2015 and I was in love, I was trying to tell everyone I knew to read them (ugh I wish I had bookworm friends in real life!) and I was going back to read over specific scenes and chapters that had me swooning. This series is a dystopian, young adult, paranormal, romance, sci-fi mix and I really loved it. This series starts out with Juliette and us being providing only a small window to look out into the world, small introductions to just a few characters, and this slowly increases throughout the series. Initially I would have said we got to walk through a fully open door by the end of book three but wow did book four change my mind on this.Instead of walking through a fully opened door at the end of the book three I honestly think we were still just looking through a crack or peep hole, perhaps with the door just being blown back as it ended but never walking through. Sorry for the metaphors... ugh I think this series kinda just does that to you. Anyways, Juliette & co have accomplished a lot by the end of book three but the whole wide world is now open to them and looking at them and there were a lot of unanswered questions about what they were going to do now. Also the character development is honestly so good in the first three books but really everyone is standing on this precipice at the end that it's clear they aren't done being tested or done growing into themselves.I found out about the fourth book just a few months before it was due to come out and I was so excited to just be back in that world and drool all over Warner again (Team Warner!! Sorry not sorry!!). But I never stopped to consider that although things ended on a precipice in the previous book, things were mostly good with and between the characters. I started reading the fourth book and suddenly it dawned on me that with this book, and two more still to come, bad things were going to happen to the characters, their world, and their relationships. And I just could not deal you guys!! I could not make myself binge read it! I was having SO much anxiety feeling like if I kept reading I was essentially making the bad things happen to my friends beloved characters.And guess what?! Bad things did happen!!!!!!!! But not in a way that the book was bad, but that you gotta have your characters go through a big fat storm first for there to be any payout in the end with *hopes* of a happy ending.Remember my window/peephole, cracked door metaphor? Well the world definitely got bigger in book four but we're still so blinded by the limited view and knowledge that Juliette has. If the door was blast off in the third book than all the fourth book did was introduce as to another door down the hall that's barely cracked. And I feel pretty confident that the only way we're gonna see our happy ending is if Juliette can rip all the doors off and figure out exactly what the heck is going in her world and see it clearly for what is it. Also I'd really like that because I have SO many questions!!! I think Mafi did an awesome job with this book building more to the world and history to our characters and making it so seamless like it was always her intent to continue the story with this information.Juliette's development in the book is a confusing mix of positive self love, utilizing coping skills from her old self hate, and then complete combustion. The other character's didn't seem to develop much at all and honestly I didn't feel like we got to see any of them much. Warner possibly had some development in the learning how to be a person way but mostly he was disintegrating too. (Their POV go back and forth between chapters). I disliked that we kept getting excerpts from Juliette's old journal, I skimmed all of it but I got it's point as a device in the book.The tone and mood of the book was very emo and honestly reminded me of what the 5th Harry Potter book did. Lack of communication between characters was causing problems, our main character is freaking out that things aren't fair etc etc, our other main character's are all grieving and moody and avoiding everyone, we learn some shocking truths about our main character, things go south real hard, we lose some (or lots) of people, and *hopefully* our main characters have learned a valuable lesson in how they've screwed up real bad and now they gotta deal and fix things.One pet peeve: our two love interests obviously hit some rocks during this book and they were SO EMO about it. I get that whatever, they're teenagers with a lot on their plate and poor social and emotional skills but ugh. Girl, calm the eff down. and Boy, you going on about I can't believe she used to love me once, when you "broke-up" YESTERDAY! Love doesn't turn off like that, dummies.I definitely recommend this series so far but f you like to binge read with a happy ending in sight then I suggest starting with the first half and not picking up book four until five and six are on their way. Ugh I so hate waiting for the next book in a series to come out...Recommended for fans of the series so far, and fans of young adult dystopians and paranormal romance.