I wanted them to solve their shit instead of pretending like everything will be perfect until the end of time. Juliette did NOTHING wrong in Restore Me except not communicate with him, but she blamed herself for everything and Warner didn’t even think to, I don’t know, APOLOGIZE BACK‼ Warner was literally the one in the wrong but Juliette was the one apologizing profusely. More than the dramatic cheesy dialogue and Juliette breaking out into cliche sobs, I LOATHE how she was the one apologizing to him. I just really was not digging this writing at ALL. There was no description of the desperation of the two or how each other looked it was all Juliette’s cliche crying and apologies, and blanket statements like “he’s alive” and “he’s intact.' Since we’ve known for 300 pages that Warner is fine, it’s really anticlimactic for Juliette to be like omg he’s alive!! Like yeah, we know. Every single line of it was so annoying, and nothing about them reuniting was unique. Like, Lifetime Movie Network called and they want their script back. The reunions sucked because the stakes felt so low and I never felt any adrenaline or excitement about their reunion.

There’s really no way for me to jump into this other than chronologically, so here we go. The difference is, whereas all the other Shatter Me books’ good parts outweighs any bad that exists, this book had so many terrible scenes and lines of dialogue that were not be redeemed by the sparse action and melodramatic romance scenes. This review is going to sound really negative, but truthfully, I think this book has equal parts good and bad.

I just was more prepared that it wasn't going to be what I was hoping. I didn't find myself as upset by this as I was the first time(s) I read it, but I don't think the book got any better. This book's two halves are competing to be the worst half: the first half is SO boring and over-explained with no plot points, and the second half is the characters calling themselves by new names with cliche and annoying dialogue. Definitely not 4 or 5 stars, but I don't know if I could go lower.

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