Trashing booktube's favorite series | Shatter Me Review

This is my unfiltered, unplanned rant review for Shatter Me and Destroy Me by Tahereh Mafi. I don't mean to offend anyone who loves this book, I just think it's important to talk about the problematic aspects of it. Let me know how you feel about this book and this series in the comments!
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But here is my rant about the book:
To start off with the issue: the "romance" I could really not... like feel nor see? I had a feeling I was thrown on a train of like nothingness, and I feel like it was not even magical or cute. Warner had so many things that bothered the hell out of me. Kind of the way you could not really tell that hype. Shatter Me was flat, and this book was even more flatter.. Like it was not even closer to anything specific, I did not like the pace of the supposedly couple that was supposed to be represented as something we wanted to have. I had an heavy issue with the fact how Warner treated her with maybe just me, but I saw some traits of being emotionally manipulative towards her. And I wished she did not threw herself into the dating just like it was written.. She had doubts and it was like her gut feeling, told her to not follow.
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But Juliette indeed just kind of derailed herself for the character that was not even really feeling genuine how his feelings showed. We get it, he was supposed to give off bad guy vibes but god, he was just red flags everywhere. How he had been just not bashed for shaming her? I did not understand where the damn love had should have been, I think Juliette was more lonely instead of in love cause she had mentioned she had wished for not being treated like glass, and I get it but somehow it got like ...kind of persuavive vibes off Warner? Simply .. seriously, he could have been so much better, also hell for sure Juliette just moved on so fast and I was like girl just if you are doubting only slightly listen to yourself! I wanted to shake her, cause she knew, she knew it deep down her mind. And that should have been a stop for her, but nope...
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Anyways Kenji was the only not so flushed down character by the author kind of like the rest was, Kenji was actually the one of better characters that were given so little time that I wished he had gotten his own book. He was direct, and I loved how he had no fear to speak his mind out and he was a guy that refreshed the pages after of like drifting around boring flat personalities. Well, Kenji was with his banter the only thing I enjoyed, and I liked the side of Kenji.
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Back to Aaron: I think he had tried to be kind of like something or someone deeper, but it was kinda of failed alongside how he had given kind of emotionless act in the end. The way he acted to her, was not really something I would approve. Aaron would had tried to make Juliette just eat, which was problematic cause I know if you have ED, it is not just the only solution. Guess his persuavive vibes were therapy?? Confusing, as hell and he had like.. Nothing comforting to say and used hella cliche words for her. I mean, if you don't define her about her weight thennn I was bothered by the fact he gave her constantly tight outfits ( like to me it would been triggering?) and if he told her to not hide, I wondered why Aaron tried to like make her wear dresses even if he knew she disliked them and still completely ignored the deep rooted issues. Yeah, sure he was abused but how based would you have to be to be like that? I felt like from his side it was lust more than love, because his confession was so random out of nothingness..?? Anyways ,it was more of a romance and not the genre I was hoping to read for. .. I tried to understand the characters, but it made me more confused than clear. It was something, but I did not know exactly what it was? It tried to be dystopian, faild somehow even to do that and romance flushed more over it. Juliette was Juliette, her casual self as usual but not someone really idk.. like likeable? Had it been attempted, to make her genuine? Somehow, but the bug was not clarified indeed. It was written like a flow of a mix, but so much issues that literally.. Well.. Shattered like the title, haha.

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I've read the book and really hated it. One of the worst books I've ever read.