This book proved to me just how unfinished the story was after book three.
Backstory: I started reading the Shatter Me series when Tahereh Mafi first published the series in 2011. I waited for each book to be released as I do with all favorites. Like I said in the last post, book three left something to be desired in its ending.
So when she announced that there would be three more books starting in 2018, I was ecstatic! I was like, Finally I get the rest of the story! And book four, again, proved to me how much it was needed.
Juliette is now the Supreme Commander and has no idea what she is doing. This book shows us that she is still vulnerable. That despite her confidence in winning against Anderson and the Reestablishment, she has no idea what it takes to lead a Sector. And during one of the final scenes in the book, we also come to realize she still might not have the greatest grip on her powers.
Warner might have had something to do with Juliette's volatile behavior. We start to get his point of view in this book and as a result we begin to realize that he is just in as deep as Juliette is. His behavior is erratic and he seems on edge all the time. Juliette is his only place of peace, it seems, But the two of them separately are falling apart.
This book sets up the rest of the series very nicely. While you do read have to read the first three books, there is a sense that these books are very much their own thing. While it is still about going against the Reestablishment, the characters are also searching for themselves too. They are rediscovering who they are and what that means in the grand scheme of things.
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