Monday, May 5, 2025

A new addition to the series! (The final sendoff)

  As we approach the final blog cycle, here is my last blog post for this year! Recently, one of the authors I previously mentioned (Tahereh Mafi) released another book in her Shatter Me series. The new book is called Watch Me, and it was released on April 25th, 2025! I just recently picked it up this previous weekend, and I hope to get around to reading it relatively soon.

Since I have not read the book, there won’t be spoilers in this post, but there will be information given from online sources. Mafi stated that this specific book will be through the perspective of James; James is Adam’s younger brother, and it should also be noted that we have never had James’ perspective. This opens a new point of view since he technically is one of the youngest within the main line of characters. Towards the earlier books in the series, he was being introduced as this shy child who was dealing with an unusual situation. In this world, he lived in his own apartment-like place, and he got pre-packaged meals that he put in the “automat” (microwave). I think it’s rather interesting that only now do we get his perspective. Mostly because he is set as a 21-year-old now, but when he was first introduced, he was 11. The other perspective within the book is a new character who goes by the name Rosabelle. Rosabelle is 21 years old and a mercenary for the reestablishment. That is pretty much all of the information that we are given about this new character, unfortunately.

I feel like this book is also stretched out from the main idea of the initial Shatter Me series. I have talked to some people who have either loved the 5th and 6th books in the series or thought that they were pretty similar. Personally, I do think that the 5th and 6th shared a lot of similarities when it comes down to it, but there are extra details added in each one that were also interesting. When I say stretched out, I mean that the initial idea was about Juliette being in an insane asylum for her accident, but now it has expanded to a lot more, such as her escaping. It has sort of drifted from that initial idea, and now it seems like some sort of battle between the reestablishment and her team is going to happen. I believe, as most books go, the main character(s) will win the battle, and that will be the end. I hope that that isn’t the case, though, and Mafi adds in more information or details, I suppose. With Rosabelle working with the reestablishment, I also hope we get some sort of balancing perspective between the two sides. 

All together, I’m pretty excited to read Watch Me, I think it will bring new insights about the original characters and the new ones too. The cover also deserves an honorable mention because it looks so so pretty. (I’ll link a photo below, but it is actually so gorgeous.) Other notes are not coming to my mind right now, but thank you for reading my post! I hope some of you consider checking this book in the future. That’s all for this post (and year too??). Bye-bye!

-Chloe B.🦆




5 comments:

  1. This book seems very interesting. I will have to give it a shot. Thanks for the great review. Wowza!

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  2. This book looks very intriguing. I love the cover art on the title. Do you know who did it? I might try to learn to do art like them!

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  3. Ooh the cover art of this series is so pretty, especially for this book! I feel like I should read it now, I keep seeing it everywhere.

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  4. As I've told you many times, I still think the Shatter Me series should've ended with the third book, "Ignite Me." However, I do think it's interesting that this will be from James' perspective. I'm curious to hear your thoughts on it; me know how goes! Great post!

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