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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Author Tahereh Mafi. And that is her real name.
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# ''Believe Me'' (2021), set after ''Imagine Me'' and functions as an extended second epilogue

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# Untitled novella (2020)
* While the first two novellas were released as ebooks initially, they were later published together as ''Unite Me'' in 2014.

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# Untitled novella (2020)
''Reveal Me'' (2019), told from Kenji's perspective.
* While the first two novellas were released as ebooks initially, they were later published together as ''Unite Me'' in 2014.
2014. The latter two novellas were later published together as ''Find Me'' in 2019.


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# ''Imagine Me'' (2020)
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* BlessedWithSuck:
** Some superpowers are this, especially if one hasn't learn to control them. Juliette's, notably, inflicts massive pain on anyone who touches her, meaning she's not only gone her whole life without human contact but can't help anyone if they're falling, injured, etc.
** [[spoiler:Warner's mother is "blessed" with the power of ''being hurt by anything that touches her'', including her own hair, clothes, and skin. She has to spend every day drugged out of her mind and has become an EmptyShell because of it.]]


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* EmptyShell: [[spoiler:Warner's mother is one. Her [[BlessedWithSuck power]] inflicts her with agony every second of her life, so they have to keep her on morphine 24/7, which has addled her mind so much she doesn't talk, react, or emote.]]


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* HealingHands: Twins Sonya and Sara have this power and naturally work as medics for the resistance.


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* {{Invisibility}}: Keiji's power. Further, if he's touching others, he can make them invisible too, which he puts to good use when helping break Juliette out in Book 1 or on recon missions in later books.
* JustThinkOfThePotential: What kicks off the plot is Warner removing Juliette from her solitary confinement so he can study her powers for military purposes. [[spoiler:His actual goal is to try and reverse-engineer them to find a cure for his mother.]]


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* PoisonousPerson: Juliette's skin burns anyone who touches her. [[spoiler:In ''Ignite Me'', she learns how to turn this on and off at will.]]


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* RuleOfSymbolism: The superpowers of Adam and Warner, who comprise Juliette's LoveTriangle. [[spoiler:Adam is a PowerNullifier, while Warner is a [[PowerCopying Power Copier]]. Adam tends to smother Juliette in the name of keeping her safe, while Warner wants to study her powers for his own purposes. Another layer of symbolism is how Warner's just a ''copier'' instead of a ''[[PowerParasite parasite]]'', as he also wants to see Juliette bloom into her power instead of just stealing it.]]
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* NotSoDifferent: Warner tells Juliette this, and she later admits he's right. They were both raised by AbusiveParents, suffered from a FriendlessBackground, and have a lot of pent-up rage towards the world; Juliette just chose to repress said rage, while Warner embraced it.

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* NotSoDifferent: NotSoDifferentRemark: Warner tells Juliette this, and she later admits he's right. They were both raised by AbusiveParents, suffered from a FriendlessBackground, and have a lot of pent-up rage towards the world; Juliette just chose to repress said rage, while Warner embraced it.



* VillainousCrush: Warner has one on Juliette, partially because of her powers and partially because he recognizes that they're NotSoDifferent.

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* VillainousCrush: Warner has one on Juliette, partially because of her powers and partially because he recognizes that they're NotSoDifferent.not that different.
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe:
** A big part of Juliette's attraction to Adam. They knew each other at school and weren't ''friends'', exactly, but he was nicer to her than the other kids.
** Warner mocks this; when Juliette cites this trope as why she likes Adam, he incredulously says "that's it?" and goes on to rant about how it says more about the other people in her life than Adam, that she had just as much a right to basic human kindness as anyone else, and that if she really wants simple adoration she can just get a dog.


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* HiddenDepths: He's too [[EvilVirtues hardworking]] and chilly to be TheDandy, but [[TheDragon Warner]] of all people has a love of fashion. His closet is even shown to be bigger than his bedroom.


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* PetTheDog: An almost literal example. While on a recon mission in ''Unravel Me'', Juliette catches sight of Warner feeding a stray dog. She's so dumbfounded she almost gets caught then and there.
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** Warner is the [[AtLeastIAdmitIt self-admitted, ruthless commander]] in charge of squashing the heroes, but he has absolutely no tolerance for DomesticAbuse. Considering [[AbusiveParents his father]], it makes sense.

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** Warner is the [[AtLeastIAdmitIt self-admitted, self-admittedly ruthless commander]] in charge of squashing the heroes, but he has absolutely no tolerance for DomesticAbuse. Considering [[AbusiveParents his father]], it makes sense.



* FinishingEachOthersSentences: [[TwinTelepathy Sonya and Sara]], tend to do this a lot, along with speaking in unison.

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* FinishingEachOthersSentences: [[TwinTelepathy Sonya and Sara]], Sara]] tend to do this a lot, along with speaking in unison.

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* AtLeastIAdmitIt: Warner knows full well he's a terrible person, and though he doesn't take pride in it, doesn't try to pretend he's not.



* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even after she recovers from the [[GoMadFromTheIsolation effects of her solitary confinement]], Juliette is still a somewhat spacey individual, prone to going off on mental tangents or constructing abstract metaphors in the middle of a mission. Adam lampshades it in ''Fracture Me'' when he notes that she's retreated inside her head again by the way she's staring into space.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Anderson is the main villain of the series, he has physically and mentally abused his sons and their mothers, had no issue executing innocents and cares for no one. Even so, he says taking advantage of "much younger than him" Juliette would be the stuff of sick minds.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: EvenEvilHasStandards:
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Anderson is the main villain of the series, he has physically and mentally abused his sons and their mothers, had no issue executing innocents and cares for no one. Even so, he says taking advantage of "much younger than him" Juliette would be the stuff of sick minds.minds.
** Warner is the [[AtLeastIAdmitIt self-admitted, ruthless commander]] in charge of squashing the heroes, but he has absolutely no tolerance for DomesticAbuse. Considering [[AbusiveParents his father]], it makes sense.
* ExtremeDoormat: As a result of her AbusiveParents and the [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer shunning she received from other children]], Juliette became this. She was desperate to be liked and hoped that doing whatever she could for others would make that happen. Unfortunately, it didn't, and the crux of her CharacterDevelopment is growing out of this.



* NotSoDifferent: Warner tells Juliette this, and she later admits he's right. They were both raised by AbusiveParents, suffered from a FriendlessBackground, and have a lot of pent-up rage towards the world; Juliette just chose to repress said rage, while Warner embraced it.
* TheOphelia: Juliette in the first book is [[GoMadFromTheIsolation half-mad from being locked up in solitary confinement for a year]]. Eventually she recovers and settles down into a normal {{Cloudcuckoolander}}.



* PluckyComicRelief: Kenji.

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* PluckyComicRelief: Kenji. [[spoiler:Deconstructed in later books, which reveal he has his share of emotional turmoil but feels like he can't ever show it, because everyone expects him to be "the funny guy".]]
* PurpleProse: The main series is narrated with this, meant to be representative of Juliette's [[TheOphelia initial mental state]]. Even after she improves, though, her narration remains abstract and spacey, so this never really goes away. Later novellas like ''Destroy Me'' completely lack said prose, supporting the fact that it's unique to Juliette's perspective.



* WhamLine: ''Unravel Me'' gives us [[spoiler: My father. This man is my father.]]

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* WhamLine: ''Unravel Me'' gives us [[spoiler: My father. This man is my father.]]]]
* VillainousCrush: Warner has one on Juliette, partially because of her powers and partially because he recognizes that they're NotSoDifferent.
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* EvenEvilHasStandars: Anderson is the main villain of the series, he has physically and mentally abused his sons and their mothers, had no issue executing innocents and cares for no one. Even so, he says taking advantage of "much younger than him" Juliette would be the stuff of sick minds.

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* EvenEvilHasStandars: EvenEvilHasStandards: Anderson is the main villain of the series, he has physically and mentally abused his sons and their mothers, had no issue executing innocents and cares for no one. Even so, he says taking advantage of "much younger than him" Juliette would be the stuff of sick minds.
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* EvenEvilHasStandars: Anderson is the main villain of the series, he has physically and mentally abused his sons and their mothers, had no issue executing innocents and cares for no one. Even so, he says taking advantage of "much younger than him" Juliette would be the stuff of sick minds.



* InformedAttractiveness: Juliette is described as excessively beautiful by Anderson, who implies her mother altered her genetics in a lab.

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* InformedAttractiveness: Juliette is described as excessively beautiful by Anderson, who implies her mother altered her genetics in a lab. Warner also falls into this trope.
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* InformedAttractiveness: Juliette is described as excessively beautiful by Anderson, who implies her mother altered her genetics in a lab.
* ParentalAbuse: All over the damn place. Adam's drunk father beat him, Warner's father whipped him on his birthdays, Juliette's parents tortured her, the other Supreme kids show signs of being treated as adults from an early age, etc.
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* GreenEyes: Warner.

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* While both novellas were released as ebooks initially, they were later published together as ''Unite Me'' in 2014.

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# ''Shadow Me'' (2019), told from Kenji's perspective.
# Untitled novella (2020)
* While both the first two novellas were released as ebooks initially, they were later published together as ''Unite Me'' in 2014.




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# ''Defy Me'' (2019)

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''Shatter Me'' is the first book in the trilogy, followed by ''Unravel Me'' and ''Ignite Me''. There are also two shorter novellas, ''Fracture Me'' (told from Adam's perspective) and ''Destroy Me'' (narrated by Warner).

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''Shatter Me'' is the first book in the trilogy, followed by (2011)
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''Unravel Me'' and (2013)
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''Ignite Me''. There are also two shorter novellas, Me'' (2014)

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# ''Destroy Me'' (2012), told from Warner's perspective.
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''Fracture Me'' (told (2013), told from Adam's perspective) and ''Destroy perspective.
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Me'' (narrated by Warner).
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# ''Restore Me'' (2018)
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* BlondGuysAreEvil: Warner. Very much so.
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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Omega Point, created by Castle to be a place for people with gifts to gather and plan a rebellion against the Reestablishment.
* FinishingEachOthersSentences: [[TwinTelepathy Sonya and Sara]], tend to do this a lot, along with speaking in unison.
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''Shatter Me'' is the first book in the trilogy, followed by ''Unravel Me'' and ''Ignite Me''. There are also two shorter novellas, ''Fracture Me'' (told from Adam's perspective) and ''Destroy Me'' (narrated by Warner).


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* GreenEyes: Warner.
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Shatter Me is a Young Adult novel written by Tahereh Mafi. It centres on 17 year old Juliette, who was trown into a cell for murder because her touch is fatal. The world outside is falling apart and The Reestablishment, the group who promised to change that is strangling to keep order. So they decide to use Juliette as their weapon and she must make a choice: be a weapon or be a warrior.

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Shatter Me ''Shatter Me'' is a Young Adult novel written by Tahereh Mafi. It centres centers on 17 year old Juliette, who was trown thrown into a cell for murder because her touch is fatal. The world outside is falling apart and The Reestablishment, Reestablishment - the group who promised to change that - is strangling struggling to keep order. So they decide to use Juliette as their weapon and she must make a choice: be a weapon or be a warrior.
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* Wham Line: ''Unravel Me'' gives us [[spoiler: My father. This man is my father.]]

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* Wham Line: WhamLine: ''Unravel Me'' gives us [[spoiler: My father. This man is my father.]]
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* TagalongKid: Adam's younger brother James.

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* TagalongKid: Adam's younger brother James.James.
*Wham Line: ''Unravel Me'' gives us [[spoiler: My father. This man is my father.]]
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* BadpowersGoodPeople: Juliette can kill people with her touch, but she's determined to live a normal life and not use her power to harm anyone unless provoked.

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* BadpowersGoodPeople: BadPowersGoodPeople: Juliette can kill people with her touch, but she's determined to live a normal life and not use her power to harm anyone unless provoked.
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* BadpowersGoodPeople: Juliette can kill people with her touch, but she's determined to live a normal life and not use her power to harm anyone unless provoked.
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* PluckyComicRelief: Kenji.

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* PluckyComicRelief: Kenji.Kenji.
* TagalongKid: Adam's younger brother James.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Kenji is heard but not seen talking to Adam before he makes he's entrance in Chapter 35.

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* ChekhovsGunman: Kenji is heard but not seen talking to Adam a few chapters before he makes he's entrance in Chapter 35.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: Author Tahereh Mafi. And that is her real name.
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Shatter Me is a Young Adult novel written by Tahereh Mafi. It centres on 17 year old Juliette, who was trown into a cell for murder because her touch is fatal. The world outside is falling apart and The Reestablishment, the group who promised to change that is strangling to keep order. So they decide to use Juliette as their weapon and she must make a choice: be a weapon or be a warrior.

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Shatter Me is a Young Adult novel written by Tahereh Mafi. It centres on 17 year old Juliette, who was trown into a cell for murder because her touch is fatal. The world outside is falling apart and The Reestablishment, the group who promised to change that is strangling to keep order. So they decide to use Juliette as their weapon and she must make a choice: be a weapon or be a warrior.warrior.

!!Shatter Me shows examples of:

* BlondGuysAreEvil: Warner. Very much so.
* ChekhovsGunman: Kenji is heard but not seen talking to Adam before he makes he's entrance in Chapter 35.
* PluckyComicRelief: Kenji.
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Shatter Me is a Young Adult novel written by Tahereh Mafi. It centres on 17 year old Juliette, who was trown into a cell for murder because her touch is fatal. The world outside is falling apart and The Reestablishment, the group who promised to change that is strangling to keep order. So they decide to use Juliette as their weapon and she must make a choice: be a weapon or be a warrior.

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