I was rooting for her the entire book, and her transformation and self-actualization was such an engrossing journey. I sympathized with her so much that my heart hurt. I haven’t lived a life anywhere near Shirin’s, but being in her head made sense.
I can’t put my finger on it, but this book just. He was definitely my favorite side character! Their bond was endearing and I liked how he was her mentor and cheered her up and stuck up for her and was the reason she got into break dancing. I LOVED Shirin’s relationship with her brother, Navid. From powerful moments to funny, relatable moments to important moments to cute moments, I was glued onto the pages. I’m not even exaggerating when I say that probably 50% of this ebook’s text is highlighted. It’s different and it’s jarring, but it fits the story. Gone are the flowery paragraphs of images and metaphors, but they’re replaced by hard-hitting and steel edged descriptions of Shirin’s real life.
This book cuts the crap from Shatter Me & Furthermore’s writing style and says it how it is. Despite this, I was highlighting paragraphs basically every other page because Shirin’s experiences and anger born from them was so powerful. I was nervous starting this book because the first 25% of this lays a lot of groundwork and there’s a lot of telling instead of showing. Updating with my full thoughts now that the book is out! I wrote all of this down when I first read it in May.
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