I read the entire Shatter Me series so you don't have to
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2023
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I was laughing cringing and everything but then I found out that Tahereh Mafi's net worth is 61 million. The joke is on us ya'll.
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just because something works doesn’t mean it’s not bad 😭 I say let’s keep criticising
😳what. Maybe it went up after she married Ransom? He have good books, miss peregrin is my fave
Could u tell me which is the second book of the series?
@@AGULL no no the shatter me series
"Sometimes I'll start a sentence, and I don't even know where it's going. I just hope I find it along the way. Like an improv conversation. An improversation." - Micheal Scott. One sentence to describe this whole series. 👁
my weaknesses are actually strengths
That's me during exams 😅
That’s four sentences 😐
Hahahahahahahah stawp
Hahahahaha exactly
I love how we all agree that Kenji and Warner make this series good
They were CARRYING the plot AND the character development at the same time.
Wdym, Warner was ass
@@AK-rx8gp incorrect
@@AK-rx8gp he was never an ass,He was always cool to juliette and how you could possibly trust kenji too? What a delusion.
and nazeera when she came along honestly 😭😭😭😭
shatter me is so weird and poorly written but somehow it's incredibly addictive... I think that Kenji sees the absurdity of this story and he makes fun of it which is extremely entertaining!
He's always like "J, girl GET A GRIP"
I feel Kenji knows that Juliette is useless but can't say anything because she wears the plot armour
It's addicting though but it had many loopholes , we were cheated , adam's character was left out , andearson's backstory was left out , warner's relationship with his mother was left out somehow and many more loopholes , the only thing that kept me going was the trio
@@triptinath5675 I mean Juliette has been isolated her whole life and like the way she reacts to that new environment (the Reestablishment and the rebellion etc) is quite normal tbh. You can't really expect her to adapt to it so quickly😭. I mean she's not much of help considering how she can't control her powers and is mentally unstable (which is understandable, and is also probably the reason why she can't adapt quickly). I will admit, she can be frustrating at times. People are free to dislike her but some people are way too harsh on her. Although, I only read the the first three books so idk what happens in the other three.
@@vener9593 She was mistreated her whole life but not isolated. And she was very inconsiderate to others whilst wanting everyone to be there for her
she was really locked up for less than a year in her entire life and was still like “i don’t know what anything is”
but even before that she was cycled through jails and detention centers and stuff for maybe years
That’s not what my problem with her was. My problem was how she never tried to obtain more information or learn. She never tries to do her own research argh
2020 quarantine
I’m really tired of the dumb girl trope
In defense of the writing style of the earlier books - the dramatic prose is exactly how a teenage girl would write/journal about her life. I don't think it's bad, I think it makes sense for Juliette's character. She is the pinnacle of teenager cast-out-from-society angst. When I read the series I actually took more issue with the later books - Juliette is going back and forth between having agency and seeming like she's actually learning how to defend herself to being a damsel in distress and captured (TWICE!). The whiplash honestly made the ending pretty anticlimactic for me - she struggles but doesn't. So much happens but then it's over immediately.
Yup this is exactly the type of shit I loved reading at 14/15.
Yeah but that doesn't make it good. Books should be enjoyable, more than they should be realistic.
100% why I liked it. I love rereading my old stuff bc yeah, it's bad but it's just pure emotion? Like go girl, feel life
your suffering and effort won’t go unnoticed, emma! I will forever remember your sacrifice and the entertainment it brought me as I was bedridden with the worst flu of my adulthood. 🙏
Same I was bedridden too
@@nishthagupta1357 hope you feel better soon!
This is me right now
I hope you feel better!
Bfr
The way I worshipped these books in middle school. I had "there's something about raindrops" written on my WALL bc it was such a beautiful quote to me as an angsty teenager. Nice to see they went completely off the rails
Then you have me as a teenager whose favorites quotes where philosophic as hell like dumbledore quotes or quotes from the crown like ““That's the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for something worse to come along and you realise it was actually happiness after all”. Yes i watched the crown as a teenager lol
@@moca304 in what way was that relevant, that doesn't make you better than the original commenter so why are you acting so entitled
@@moca304that quote is almost dumber than the original commenter's quote. That is not philosophical lmao
@@moca304You were a smarter and deeper teenager. Nevermind the commentators. We’re all different and unique and awesome.
@@moca304bro c'mon
You saying you didnt like Peeta is the most shocking thing about this video
ikrrrrrrrrrrrrrr i was so hurt and shocked when she said thatt
WHAT
I also didn't like Peeta, but I didn't like the other two either
Team gale ppl don’t deserve rights like peeta was willing to die to let her live and gale is just some guy katniss liked
I struggled through the first book because so many people had loved this series, but the introduction of the purple jumpsuit was the final straw for me... I can suspend my disbelief for a lot of things, but I needed to physically put the book down after this.
Amen. This is exactly how I felt help. It's so cringe and I just could not enjoy it for the life of me. And everyone seems to love it, I genuinely don't understand 😭
when he told her she looked like a superhero
@@thursday784 You guys realize this is an X-Men story, right? A bunch of teenagers/young adults born with superpowers. Castle = Xavier. You didn't see the skintight suits coming?
😭 please, gimme my money back, I’d rather buy the poppy war series and still have cheap changes for two ice cream dang it
It was the reaction the guys had to seeing her, a sickly skeletal gangly teen rhat had been locked up and starved for years, in that purple jumpsuit that made me call it quits
cant believe julliette went through both her hunger games AND divergent eras in the span of a few years
This was hilarious. I love the cheese reenactment. I almost spit my coffee out like suicidal rain drops. I am the coffee. (finger snaps)
how does it feel being the funniest person alive
I CAN'T. That was so good 😂
Hahahahahahwha omg no lmao
I love you 😂😂😂😂😂😂
“my dreams are bloody and bleeding and blood is bleeding all over my mind”
my girl must’ve lost tons of blood 😓
over one and a half hour!! emma really did go through it for us 🕊
almost two hours.. the perfect movie for the night.
😂
"He's a reasonable 5'9" -- Emma, you make the *best* matter-of-fact and deeply funny observations.
I’m currently reading the series and I LOVE IT. Yes, it has its flaws (like cringy stuff and poor writing) but I have grown emotionally attached to the characters and that’s made all the difference 😭
Same, I love the cringy writing, it’s just funny
I thought the writing was incredible
@@roe7020i wish I could deem it the same. The writing is making me bored, especially with mid plot too
I’m on the 3rd to last book, almost finished with it!
one of the only huge problems I’ve had is with that STUPID purple suit and FLAT black boots..SERIOUSLY.. who is she MRS INCREDIBLE?!!
other than that, i love the book and am also emotionally attached and invested 😁
15 year-old me read the 3 first books in 3 days I loved it soooo much
Now this put things in perspective
Sameeee!! But I couldn't recommend it to my friends because of the spicy scenes as a 15 year old
👁 no because the way warner gets absolutely wrecked by his lack of literally just asking Juliette if she's okay after ALL THE NONSENSE...i cannot. This series is so silly goofy but honestly so iconic i love the commentary
im sorry you had to go through this girl, get well soon xx
thank you🤧
Emma your reenacting the scenes had me ROLLING. Simply glorious & absolutely perfect
Its amazing how we all love Aaron’s adam slander bc it’s literally iconic
I love the non capital Adam
@@petramcruickshank5165 he doesn’t deserve to have his name capitalized🙏🏻
"I'm doing this for warner and warner alone" this is the realest thing i've ever heard
I dnfed this book back in January after trying to read it for the first time. And this video makes me feel so validated in that decision
What is dnfed?
@@Rara-tk9eb did not finish
@@may-tu5fe ok thanks
I couldn’t even get through the first 100 pages!!!
Maybe its because I’ve read the series when I was 14 or because English isn’t my first language and I read the books in English, but I actually really enjoyed the way Juliette expressed herself. Dramatic and a bit cringy yes but also very relatable.
Nah I 100% love the way the writing is, there's something cathartic of it
Thanks for taking one for the team Emma, I am very glad I don't have to read these (and also I am enjoying the hell out of the reenactments 😆)
First 3 books are Ok, I guess but the rest... I CALLED IT A FILLER WASTED PLOTLINE but ????????
i just love when my favorite youtubers demolish a whole book series for entertainment purposes 🕊 slay
YES me too, its so interesting and fun to watch
Do u have any recommendations for similar videos?
@@distheone9120 not of whole series but a clockwork reader does this thing where she reads 5 books she didn’t think she’d ever read and she doesn’t hold back on critics :)
@@distheone9120 readwithcindy has a lot of hate videos about ACOTAR and they are all hilarious
I have been seeing a huge interest in this series on book twitter and it's all thirsting over Warner. I am a survivor of the dystopian book obsession of the early 2010s a la Hunger Games, The Maze Runner, Delirium, Matched, etc. etc., and I could not, as a lady in my mid-20s, go back and read a book I was meant to eat up as a 16 year old just for the experience. Seeing you read the books for me made me realize that I made a good choice. Book twitter needs to stan better love interests.
You said what I couldn’t 🤣 I too am a survivor and I’ve changed way too much as a person to ever revisit this series
@@saraferguson1156 I can read some things (like I read Red Queen recently; it was bad, but I still read it) but others I just can't...I'm way too old for some of these concepts
You told nothing but THE TRUTH.
I’ve never read this series but literally found this so entertaining
Eww,why is she describing his father that way??? Is Juliette sick???
I read through until Defy Me just absolutely broke me. I didn’t realize there was only one book after that but I couldn’t gather the strength to read it even if I wanted to. I remember just feeling so lost in that second trilogy. Overall, one of the most frustrating things about this entire series is Mafi’s tendency to show you something and then be like “SIKE! That didn’t actually happen!” in order to retcon and tailor as she pleases and it just feels cheap/lazy. That being said, Kenji and Warner are possibly the best characters in that they usually make the story bearable/more interesting when they’re around. It doesn’t save it tho. Thing is, from what I’ve seen of her, Tahereh Mafi seems like a lovely person with a great sense of fashion and a beautiful family but I also never want to read another book by her 😂
I tried so hard to read these books but I honestly couldn’t get into them. I usually try to stick it out and finish books anyways. This was one of the few that I just couldn’t. But at the same time, I’ve been curious as to what actually happened. Thank you for making this video! This makes me feel better about not being able to finish them because wheeeww 😅
Literally same! I'm the kind of person who NEEDS to know what happens so I keep reading even if I hated it, I would even look for spoilers to keep me motivated into the reading to know how everything unfolds. But Shatter Me really shattered every capacity I had to go on reading. im just glad I finally came across one of this videos of someone who went through all of THAT so I don't have to and willingly summarized it for all of us.
I could not get through the 4th book I just couldn’t 😢😭 I had to physically put it down I almost threw it 😬
Emmie reenacts ridiculous reads. 😂 Can we please make these reenactments a thing? This entire review was great entertainment, thank you! 👁
27:37 omg wait someone else did "the sun was a yolky thing" before Lightlark?!! Someone notify Tahereh Mafi because now I can't help but believe Alex Aster was a Shatter Me stan when she was younger 🤣
Reading books from *that* time period of YA is so cringe but so amazing, yes please do more videos like this!
an hour and forty minutes of Emma displaying every emotion ever.... This is my comfort video, my haven.Thank you !!
the shift in mood in the last part hdjdjdj imagine writing a series so bad it sucks the life out of readers 😭
This series has a special place in my heart
The way i usually get bored of content this long but this 1hr and 40 minutes passed so quickly is truly unfathomable to me. I Had such a fun time laughing my heart out to this video. Trully one of my favorite youtube videos of all time. Also sending my love to Emma that had to go through all of that nonesence of books for us. Thats what i call true detication.
OH MY GOD it started with a prang of nostalgia, because same i read the org series when i was so tiny. even though i was really really confused about the whole universe it was built on, I still had a good time. by the time restore me came out, i had already grown out of that phase and i could not read it for the life of me, but getting a full review from you has been so painfully hilarious
oh, perfect, i was just about to take my regular 1 hour 41 minute break from work…
haha enjoy!!💙
omg we definitely need u to make videos like these for other series as well! love u love this video, thank you for going through this for us💙👁
you're way stronger than me emma! i planned on reading the whole series back to back but had to give up after the original trilogy 😭😭 also if you watch this on 2x speed it sounds like you're reading the worst slam poetry known to man!
'yeah, juliette will shatter the earth' girl you're so hilarious😆 this movie was literally my therapy 😩🩷
No but how did Warner's father survive 1000 of attacks like how his gut was cut, he got shot all over the body but still survived 😭🤣
I would 100% love videos like this, I love the really long formats bc I listen to your vids while I clean lol also bc I think it gives you time to really unpack what you're reading w us, and it's super interesting.
But also would love you doing essay vids, esp on poems like the Robert Frost poem! When you started talking abt it in the video I got so interested, and would love if you analyzed poems!
I’m wheezing from your re-enactments! Well done 😂😂 I read this whole series a couple years ago as well, and I can’t remember a single thing about it, as if it never passed through my brain~ 😅😅
That demonstration is gold!! 🤌 Content that I didn't know I need it from you. Sorry to go through with that JOURNEY, Emma❤.
I loved this book series when I first read it in middle school (I even reread the first three) and had one of the Juliette journal entries as my Lock Screen. The fourth book put me off the series so I never finished the newer ones, thankful for heroes like you for finishing and reviewing what I couldn’t
I have never wanted to read this series but this video is perfect for rewinding after a hectic day of work 👏👏👏
I can’t tell you how much this content has lifted me up - so incredibly funny, you have such talent! Keep it coming. X
i’m so glad you posted this! i always wanted to know why there was so much hype around this book but didn’t want to suffer through it 🤭
“I don’t know what kind of letter opener they have.” I am laughing so hard!
I never would have, nor now, either, picked up this series; but your voice & brutal review was extremely entertaining!😂❤
A few years ago I picked up Shatter Me in my school library, and read the first few pages. As soon as the male live interest came into the story (in chapter 1 or 2) the lead was immediately like oh he’s hot/he’s gorgeous immediately. It might just be me not really liking romances but still that’s way to fast for the lead to suddenly go for the love interest. Put it down after finishing chapter 1 or 2
She also falls in love with his half-brother (the real love interest), and she consistently reminds us how hot their dad is. She was designed, genetically, to fall in love with them.
the reenactment of the scenes... pure gold
What a journey! 👀 Your videos always manage to help taking my mind off depression and anxiety, so many thanks for that! I hope you're doing okay today. Sending lots of love 💚
i vaguely remember reading the first book at around 13… don’t remember much of the plot at all though lol. i’m so excited to hear your review on the whole series
Can’t believe you read all of that messy crap! You’re a reading warrior! I enjoyed it. Please do more series breakdowns and don’t forget the wine 🍷. 👀
it’s been taking me ages to get through ignite me but this video is the perfect motivation to read the rest of the series !!!!!!!!!!
The fact that I never read these when I was a teenager, but then last year I got into bookstagram (like a lot😂) and read all of them in a couple of months, being 29 and just reliving the ✨angst✨ it was wonderful.
A year ago I read the first trilogy and novellas during a depressive episode and it was just the brain off, whacky story I needed at that time 😄
I'm so glad I didn't continue though, it sounds so bad, thank you for your service 💛
I haven't even read any of these books, but seeing you (not so) slowly go mad from reading them and sharing your thoughts with us, is such a vibe! 😂💜
you think im going to spend the next 1 hr and 40 mins of my time watching emma? cause you're right! This is truly a treat!!!
Honestly this is the very best (and only) way to consume the Shatter Me series. Thank you Emma for those reenactments! I will be thinking about this video for a while 😂😂
THANK YOUU! i’ve been looking for the whole series review
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Ahh just hearing you talk is so comforting. Never heard of this series but the video was very fun, you can make even bad books shine ♡ 👀👁 Also Calcifer meowing in the background is so relatable
I'm sorry you had to suffer, but I'm just overjoyed with the fact that I'm not alone in hating this series. I've tried to read the first 3 books, read the first one fully, skimmed through the second, skimmed the first half of the third then dropped it completely. I just couldn't do it. Then i go to book tok and people are OBSESSED with it?? I was seriously questioning my taste at this point so thank you and the comments for showing me that there is still faith in humanity and peopel still have taste in fiction.
thank you for all that you do, emma!♡
I loved this format and your energy.
I think this might be my favorite video on the internet right now 😂 I have watched it a couple times already and it's just sooo entertaining. Love you Emmie 🥰
thank you for this Em! reenactments were superb
I never read anything by Tahere Mafi, but now it feels I did. We appreciate your sacrifice Emma. It's so hilarious that I didn't even notice how long it is. You brightened my day, I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. 😂
Thank you so much for this. I read Shatter Me years and years ago and then gave up sometime into Unravel Me (I think I crossed the halfway line? don't remember). Now I will never have to pick this up ever again. I get how the OG trilogy has a so-bad-it's-funny vibe. That paired with some nostalgia is comfort entertainment. But the lack of worldbuilding threw me off so hard already, now knowing everything is even worse... wow. I could even forgive rushed battles and resolutions, those could just be necessary stepping stones while the characters, their development and relationships are the true meat, but it was hard caring for anybody. I was so here for the hook of "girl with death touch was locked up and now some more people with fantastic powers band together to overthrow evil overlords". Way to derail this on every level.
Was fun listening to you (the cat noises were very welcome).
this video was pure comfort for me (thanks and sorry for going through this for us)
sending love from Brazil 👀❤️
Love watching Emma descend into madness for 1 3/4 hours 😂😂👀
I tried reading the first book after seeing every single person in the world go crazy over the series and I could not get more than maybe 50 pages in because it was so icky. I'm so glad it wasn't just me.
I hated the audiobook sooooo much! They didn't explain the cross outs so you hear something said then like chalk on a chalkboard for the crossouts. Took me forever to realize that. Also the narrator made her sound I don't know but I didn't like it. Decided to try reading it & got through the first 3. I think I'm just not a dystopia books cause it's not the first of the genre that I've struggled with.😅
@@carissadallke1345 what other dystopian books have you tried to read?
Watching/listening to reading vlogs is one of my favourite things to do while writing, because it not only assuages my fears about my ability, but I also get plenty of great tips on what to do/what not to do
Oh. My. God. I haven’t laughed out loud so many times during a RUclips video in so long. Your commentary is so sharp. I just read Shatter Me during a bad day when I needed to turn my brain off and thanks to you I’ve experienced the best parts of the rest of the series without actually having to read it. That’s the greatest gift ever. THANK YOU 👁️
👀 Holy moly, this was so much fun. Definitely yes to more series reading vlogs!
Omg a hour long video, I’m so here for it!!
Absolutely loved the video! I would definitely like to see you do more of this.
I adored this video. Your sense of humor is out-of-this-worldly!!! 👁
Oh my goodness hahah that was hilarious at the start (loved the reenactments!) and then sad seeing how bad it got and how much you were just laboriously wading through the books :(
But it was still very fun to watch, and a big achievement honestly 👀
this series is my guilty pleasure ,, is it good?? No but good lord is it hilarious to read
what an icon ✨ now i never need to read these books!!! thank you so much, emma!
👀 more, please! This was so entertaining, and I absolutely live for your commentary!
The reenactments at the beginning? LIVING FOR IT😂😂😂😂
watched this while cleaning my apartment and girlie.... you really took us on a wild ride today huh 😂 this was so entertaining and congrats on finally checking off another series!
I've thought about reading this series sooo many times. Thank you for taking the time so I don't have to
this is so fun im so glad you made this video! let this be confirmation that you slay at this style of video
Now this is what i call pure entertainment! Thank you Emma for going through the trouble for us hahahaha I just watched the whole thing while doing my nails.
👀 that was great for my crocheting sesh! reminded me of that one time i watched a 6 hour long youtube video with the unhinged recap of pretty little liars, so i'm, weirdly, absolutely here for this type of content
Mikes mic??
@@elizaleorowe8384 yep😄
Shatter me is my fav series, but I loved the video and I love how everyone agress that aaron and kenji are the best.
the shatter me series has been sitting on my to-read shelf for years but now after having watched your entire video on it i'm just gonna go smoothly erase the series from my to-read list and from my memory lol thank you lots for your sacrifice, much appreciated, emma! hope that after this experience you've still got a couple of brain cells left for reading more profound books heh (loved this video A LOT, laughed a lot and cringed a lot too so thank you for the emotions) !! putting the 👁 here as a declaration of my love for you (and not for the shatter me series obviously)
The repressed trauma this video uncovered is astounding. I barely remembered this series before watching this video, and I honestly wish I could go back to yesterday, when my brain had blocked most of the details from my memory.
I am going to watch this but not right now because it's 3 am here, but I'm coming into it after reading this series multiple times and loving it (especially Aaron and Kenji) and with the opinion that Tahereh Mafi is a master of character voices (Julieta is super flowery, Aaron is very strict and to the point, and Kenji is just fun hilarity), and I dig her use of weird metaphors that somehow work???
Anyway, I'm going to watch this tomorrow but I am also really scared because I really like these books, so we'll see how that goes lol...
loved the vid! you should definitely do more of those!
i can't believe i just watched a 100 minute long video about a book series i've never read lol, but it was time well spent, since now i know i didn't miss out on much. i commend your dedication to suffering through all of these books for this video x
"there's one poor guy that's just really flexible" I'm so sorry but that took me out.
she really took one for the team
Thank you so much for doing this. You saved me a lot of time❤
👁👄👁 gurl.... loved every minute. I sat here listening while I cleaned my room.... SO ENTERTAINING ❤❤❤
“she shatters the earth….. good on her 🙄” HELP