Imagine Me (Shatter Me #6) eBook PDF

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Angelica

Rating: really liked it
This series should have remained a trilogy. Life would have been good if it had ended with Ignite Me. But no, I guess life is not in fact, good.

First, I gotta admit, my hopes for this book were pretty gosh darn low. I literally expected nothing from this novel. I didn't know what I was getting into and had no idea how it was gonna all turn out.

And you know what?

I am very glad for it because this novel was nothing at all like anything I could have possibly imagined.

First, let me start with the good and say that I love Tahereh's writing. I had forgotten how atmospheric and beautiful it was. How does her mind come up with such lyrical sentences?

Also, let me say that I really liked Kenji in this book. No wonder Kenji was constantly on the verge of a breakdown in this novel, the poor boy was carrying the whole story on his back!

While Kenji was trying to add light to dark times and trying to keep his friends and found family together and safe, all the other major characters were off undoing their character development.

Adam is still irrelevant in this book so let's not even mention him. The other kids of the supreme leaders were helpful at some points, but mostly just sort of... there... I guess? The crew from Omega Point was actually relevant in this one. I guess Mafi remembered that they existed and gave them dialogue lines. I actually liked all their interactions with Kenji. You could actually see how close they are were.

But then, there was Warner/Aaron and Juliette/Ella.

Warner, whom I really enjoyed in Unravel Me, and whom I totally loved in Ignite Me completely reverted back to his Shatter Me self. He had been slowly going back to his cruel, insufferable persona since Restore Me, but here he really took a nosedive.

Warner is really just a horrible person without Juliette around and that's not cute. It was so frustrating to watch him be so horrible and unreasonable. It's understood he loves her, but I hate the idea that loving her is his only good character trait.

Then we have Juliette. Was she even really a character in this book?

Juliette went from learning her own strength and gaining autonomy in the first three books, to being the most annoyingly passive character in this last novel. Juliette didn't make the story happen. She didn't push the plot forward. The story happened to her, and the plot pushed her forward. She was a puppet, figuratively and literally.

I barely recognize these characters from the original three books.

Lastly, I want to mention the worldbuilding and general plot because I had no idea what the heck else this series was going to pull out of left field. I'm still confused about the entire convoluted plot and backstory of these past three books.

I am even more confused by the ending. It didn't feel like an ending. Not only did it feel rushed and like we didn't actually solve all the problems, but I also have so many questions about it. There are so many loose threads and things that just sort of never get mentioned again. There is so much that was ignored about the ending in favor of a cute epilogue. And even the epilogue didn’t feel finished!!

It was so frustrating!

In the end, I didn't really like this book all that much. Any enjoyment that I got from it came from Kenji's inner thoughts and how he always managed to say something hilarious even in the darkest of times.

I said it once, I will say it again. This series should have remained a trilogy!!!!

Also, Mafi better not come back four years later and say this is all part of a nine-book series because I will actually riot. I mean, I will probably still read them because I clearly have masochistic reading tendencies, but I'll definitely be angry about it.

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Whitney Atkinson

Rating: really liked it
April 2022

I think it's finally time to admit that I only gave this book five stars originally because I was relieved that it was over. This is the only Shatter Me book I've only read once, which is saying something. One star is kinda unfair because I think I hate Defy Me more and I still gave that one 3 stars, but until I reread this (if I ever do), I need to speak my truth lmao

March 2020

FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING FOOD!!!!!!!!!!!

Jesse (JesseTheReader)

Rating: really liked it
Hmm.. I need to think on this before sharing any thoughts.

faye

Rating: really liked it
kenjis shoulders must hurt from carrying this book

jessica

Rating: really liked it
this series, a train metaphor:

books 1 to 3 - wow! im so glad i boarded this train. im really enjoying this fun ride!

book 4 - hmm. the train seems to have missed my stop. guess i will just wait it out and see where its going!

book 5 - RUNAWAY TRAIN HEADED TO NOWHERE. SOS! SEND HELP!

book 6 - train derails and falls off a cliff. unsalvageable. i am now deceased.

so this is me, reviewing from the afterlife, to tell you about the absolute disaster that is this final book. i mean, i didnt have any expectations, literally none, and somehow im still disappointed.

bad writing (low quality fan-fiction vibes). bad characters (i am genuinely offended by how adams character is handled in this). bad plot (no substance, just pointless filler). just bad overall.

↠ 2.5 stars

Virginia Ronan ♥ Herondale ♥

Rating: really liked it
”What happened to you, man?” I whisper. “Where’d you go?”
“Hell,” he says. “I’ve finally found hell.”

Me too, Ladies and Gentlemen, me too! >_<
Hell was reading this book and you better get yourself some chocolate before you continue to read because I’m so bitter that I could be mistaken for a lemon. I’m not just bitter though, I’m salty as well. So buckle up this is going to be a spicy ride. (Okay, I’m done with the food hints now. *lol* You get the idea! ;-P)

This book was just ... URGH!!
I’m so disappointed right now I’ve been fighting to find the proper words for at least two weeks. And I just realized that I’ll probably never find them. >_< I think the most important thing you have to know is that I loved the original trilogy! It was so good and I’m such a huge Tahereh Mafi fan! Moreover I actually enjoyed books 4 and 5! They were different but they were still good! So what went wrong? A LOT!!! Or basically everything!

Seriously, if it wouldn’t have been for my beloved Jello who had the ~~questionable~~ pleasure to experience my disappointment first hand I most certainly would have never made it through this book! So a huge shout-out to Jello for surviving this buddy read with me! *lol* You’re the best, girl! And I swear I would have never made it through this book without your support! <333 So thank you so much for keeping me company on this hard ride. XD It was tough for both of us but we got through it somehow! *sighs* This said let’s get to the root of the problem:

”My questions are endless.
I kill them.”

Oh, how I wish I would have had the same luxury!!!
Unlike Juliette I couldn’t just kill my questions though and instead of getting answers all I got was a headache and even more questions than before. There happened so many things that left question marks above my head and NONE, really NONE were answered! You’d think an author who writes the last book in a series that consists of 6!!! (SIX!!!) books in total would try to wrap it up all nicely in the end? Nope! Nah, Nuh-uh. Nopedy nope! I didn’t get my awesome ending wrapped up in a lovely bow and I’m so bitter about it! So, so bitter! And this comes from a fan that loved and read all the former books, mind you! I’m not writing this rant because I dislike Tahereh’s books or because I want to make her feel bad, I’m writing this rant because I LOVE Tahereh and her writing style and I can’t believe that she would write such an ending!!! I just can’t wrap my head around it!

”It is only in the desperate seconds before death that we realize the windows against which we broke our bodies were only mirrors, all along.”

What went wrong Tahereh? Why give us such a sloppy ending even though we know you are a magnificent writer?! Where did your amazing and beautiful writing style go? I missed it during the entire book. The fact that I only wrote down 4 quotes from a book that consists of 450 pages should already tell us enough! After reading all the other books I couldn’t even pack all those lovely and beautiful quotes into my reviews. I had no problem this time around. In fact I had to go looking for those 4 quotes so that I actually COULD put something into this review. *shakes head*

Still, the writing style wasn’t the only thing that made me sad. I also missed the amazingness of my beloved characters. They used to be complex, they had character arcs and they developed. They grew and changed over time. In this book it was like they all went back to their starting point and couldn’t be more than stereotypes. Which is such a shame! And don’t even get me started on Juliette/Ella! (view spoiler)

Another thing that riled me big time was that the main topic of those last 3 books was Emmaline and then we barely get anything about her. The first 10% of the book and then... nothing! Like she wasn’t important enough to keep the plot moving. Instead we get... moments that made me want to tear my hair out! >_< And to add insult to injury we get an epilogue that was so unsatisfying that I sat there crying into the book! Not because it was so good, but because it made my heart bleed all over the pages by not being what I wanted it to be. T_T

This book should have been named “Torture Me” instead of “Imagine Me” but if I have to go with the theme, I’ll do it my way (and this is where it gets salty, my friends):

“Imagine Me” borrowing Winston's whiskey flask and taking a big swig in order to get through this book. *lol* Thank you, Winston! ;-P
“Imagine Me” throwing this book against a wall.
“Imagine Me” setting it on fire and then chucking it out of the window.
And “Imagine Me” letting it being run over by a car only to get drenched in rain! All for good measure, of course! ;-)
“Imagine Me” hoping for a great ending and getting THIS and... (view spoiler)
“Imagine Me” and my face falling when I realized this was neither about Emmaline nor about my OTP. (view spoiler)
“Imagine Me” being one of Tahereh’s biggest fans but being so damn salty I could turn a lake into the sea. If you ever come across an Austrian lake that’s as salty as the Black Sea: I’m sorry, that was me! XD
“Imagine Me” getting whiplash from shaking my head too much! My neck hurts, no kidding!
“Imagine Me” losing my appetite every single time Juliette said “Yes, sir!” (I need to eat lots of Christmas cookies to compensate for that!!)
“Imagine Me” wanting to erase the memory of this book with bleach! Yes, I’m that desperate! Come to think of it Evie and Max would come in pretty handy right now.
“Imagine Me” collapsing under the weight of all those question marks, because let’s face it: This book was all over the place! I feel like Atlas and it’s no fun!
And last but not least: “Imagine Me” renaming this book “Torture Me”!

The only good thing about “Torture Me” was Warner’s and Kenji’s bromance! Well, and this quote:

”To the world, she is formidable.
To me?
She is the world.”

That’s it!
My fan heart is so broken right now, I want to “imagine” a world with a better ending than this! T_T

Okay, I’m done with the puns and I’ve vomited all my bitterness into this review.
I’m sorry to say it but I can’t give this more than 2,5 stars rounded up to 3. (I really wish we’d have half-stars here because 2,5 would be way more accurate than 3.) 2,5 stars because otherwise it would feel like I’d let Tahereh get away with this disaster of a book and someone has to speak the truth. As a huge fan of this series my heart is bleeding but I stand by my opinion! #SorryNotSorry

Let’s hope Mafi’s next book will be better again!

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Buddy read with my one and only J.!
(Should I call you “Jello” now? *lol* 😜)

I’m not gonna lie: I’m kinda scared about what will happen in this one, but as long as I’m reading “Imagine Me” with you I shall be fine! ;-)

Let’s fight through this!
Together we can ~~survive~~ make it.
I mean, how bad can it be?! *they said right before the shit hit the fan* XD
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OMG!!
Wait!
What?!

When did this become a thing, how come I didn't know about this?
Since when is there a cover?

GAHHHHHH! *has a mental breakdown*

Okay,
I'm fine now.

THIS.
COVER.
THOUGH!!! *whimpers*

elena ❀

Rating: really liked it
i deserve a golden fucking medal for finishing this series so i can trade it to put my mental health back together

Hamad

Rating: really liked it
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“Imagine me
master of my own universe
I am everything I ever dreamed of”

I should have not continued the series as soon as I read book 4 and did not enjoy it. I was not pleased with the ending of the first trilogy and so I was happy to see we were getting an extension and boy, I was wrong. My feelings whenever I saw the books of the first trilogy drifted toward the positive side but whenever I see the new books, I just have all kind of negative emotions.

This was certainly a downgrade from all the previous books, everything gets worse, characters, plot, world building! I think Mafi did an outstanding job in surprising me which is not an easy feat! Here is what I thought about the characters:

Juliette/ Ella: Screams and faints!
Warner: everyone’s POV: He is such a monster from hell, he is ruthless but soft inside
Ella’s POV: He has long eyelashes, nice muscles and green eyes!
Adam: I forgot that I exist in this series so let me appear in the epilogue.
James: Did I tell you that the poor boy is 10 years old 😦 ??
Sara and Sony: Finish each others sentences and diagnose all with coma.
Kenji: more like Cringy now
Nazeera: *Comes out of no where*: I have a plan.
Castle: Forgive and forget.
Winston and Brendan: <333
Anderson: She is perfect now!!

The writing is okay, I mean the books are easy to read and fly through but I felt that Mafi got stuck in the creative process and couldn’t come up with something new so she decided to come up with the trilogy and it shows. A lot of authors do that nowadays and I don’t think it was ever a positive decision to make. I felt the author was trying to please the fans and serving them what they wanted while ruining the good trilogy she already had.

Summary: I am disappointed with this series because it did not add anything new to the original story but it ruined it for me. I think everything went downhill after book 3 and I was really sad to see characters I liked change into characters I barely recognized (Kenji specially). The character growth that I liked in the first trilogy is deleted and we start from the beginning with two dimensional characters. I just recommend giving book 4 a chance and if it is not for you, stop right there and pretend you never read it!

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✩ sana ✩

Rating: really liked it
update: 01/01/21

1.5 stars. I didn’t think my rating would drop any lower but every time I am reminded of Andersen and Juliette’s weird attraction to him in this book, it makes me want to drop my rating, so here we are!

update: 04/01/20

Before I start, if you loved this book, you should probably ignore this negative review. This is one of those times when the fan theories are better than the actual plot.

Even though I had no excitement for this book, I tried going into it with an open mind. I love Tahereh Mafi's writing, and I was so excited for the new books but after having read all 3 of them, I really don’t see the point of coming back to this world and writing more books in it if she didn't really have anything new to add to it. These new books had a lot of repetitive plot lines starting from Anderson coming back from the dead to offer absolutely nothing to the story to both Defy Me and Imagine Me being rescue mission books and revolving around Juliette losing her memories and getting them back.

The only thing these new books had going on was Warner and Juliette’s amnesia storyline and before I say this, I should mention that I absolutely love amnesia trope if it is done right, but I don't feel like it was explored properly here. Juliette is captured before we ever get the chance to see her lose her memories and Warner's reaction to it. Talking about repetition of things, Juliette's journal entries! I have read those entries so many times before (in Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Restore Me) that when they showed up in Imagine Me, I skipped them altogether. I understand that the intention here was to create some sort of parallel, but again....we've been there we've done that already. I feel like I just read a book of 460 pages with absolutely no new content of Warner and Juliette. I don't even think there were any memorable quotes from the two Warnette scenes that we got.

I think I speak for the majority when I say we love this series for its main characters, Warner and Juliette, their development, and the romance . But this book barely had them in it. Both Juliette and Warner are apart for the most part. Juliette’s mentally unstable because she is losing her memories again so most of her chapters are all over the place and don’t offer much Warnette content because even when she is reunited with him, she doesn't remember him at first. I still don't understand why Tahereh didn’t just give Warner, her MAIN character, a POV (I’m not counting the epilogue here). I personally would’ve loved to read from his POV while Juliette was in danger and was losing her memories again. But everything we got, we got from Kenji's POV, and this book felt more like a Kenji book to me rather than Warner and Juliette's. I can’t help but think that she should have just written a Kenji spin off instead.

I'm not even going to try to get into the whole Anderson / Juliette thing in the book, that was just way too weird, and boils my blood every time I think about it.

Shatter Me has been my favorite series for 4-5 years now, this series will always mean something to me, and I was so excited for the new books when they were announced but it makes me so sad to say that I ended up disliking them and wishing she’d never written more books. Even with the epilogue, this book didn’t really feel like a last book. There are so many things that were left unaddressed, and I know that the author said that she doesn't write very long books but if Imagine Me hadn't been another rescue mission book, I feel like those things could've been addressed. All in all, Ignite Me was way better a conclusion in my opinion.

Small things I did like from the book:

- Brendan and Winston (so happy for them) <3
- Warner going feral when Juliette is in danger.
- Warner with a freaking MACHETE???
- Kenji and Warner’s banter (it was cute and made me remember why I loved their love / hate dynamic in the first place)
- the 2.5 warnette scenes (in the beginning and at the end when they've reunited)

So, 2.5 stars for the 2.5 warnette scenes because in the end, they are the only thing that I really care about.

Alina Lizzy

Rating: really liked it
The old Juliette can’t come to the phone right now

Sabrina

Rating: really liked it
WARNETTE WAS AND IS THE BEST PART OF THIS SERIES.

This was a bittersweet read for me.
This is one of my favorite series ever, so to see it end is sad.

Although I felt like the end was rushed and anticlimax, and that things, in general, felt rushed and I didn't have enough of my husband and my favorite couple in this book, and hated some of the things that happened in this, I'm going to give this book 5 stars because I love this series and characters with my whole heart and I don't have it in me to give it a lower rating than that.
But if I did I would probably give it a 3⭐️

And the “original” trilogy will always remain superior.
All of the first three books went to my “favorite of life” list, and neither of the last three went to it. I only keep reading it, because Warner and Juliette are my favorite couple and characters of all time. And I would never past the opportunity to have more of them in my life. So you can realized that even though I didn’t gave a low rating to Restore Me and Defy Me and this one, I was thoughtfully disappointed.

5⭐️ is for my love for the couple and characters in this series. Because if I’m being honest I didn’t read this series for the plot. But for Warnette and the fact that I didn’t have the amount of scenes that I wanted of them in this book, got me a little pissed.
And I didn’t have a Warner/Aaron pov? This book would have been so much better if it had. Every chapter I was expecting to be of Warner and none of them were.

As I have already mentioned, if I had it in me to give this book 3⭐️ I would. But this series was what made me fall in love with reading (along with hush hush). So 5⭐️ is for everything that this series brought to my life and how happy I am for having read it.

And now I’m crying 😭.

GOODBYE
I'll miss this series forever...

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I’m not ready. I’M SO NOT READY BUT GIVE THIS BOOK TO ME NOW.

Just reread Restore Me and Defy me and I need this conclusion immediately. Like now.

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This better be an epic conclusion.
This is going to be an epic conclusion.

Okay, Is this really the end ???? I’m not ready, I am not ready to suffer again. Like I died when it ended it with 3 books, I am now very much alive for more 3 books.

GIVE THIS BOOK TO ME NOW. I can’t wait that long 😭😭
I don’t want it to end. I’m not ready to say goodbye to one of my favorite series ever!

dana

Rating: really liked it
I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WTF

never in a million years did i ever expect to give a shatter me book less than 5 stars, let alone 1 star. shatter me was the book that literally got me back into reading. i gave defy me 3 stars last year, so i wasn't as hyped for imagine me, but i was still excited bc it was the finale. and it was just SO BAD??

there's genuinely nothing i liked about this book. i read it very fast but like...i can't give you any positives. the plot was A MESS. something happened in the beginning that just felt like it came out of nowhere, and then all of a sudden, that was the storyline?? it was just so weird. and we were BARELY in juliette's pov. even when we were, it didn't feel like juliette. i do love kenji, but it wasn't the same. and there was no warner pov, which i hated.

everything felt so slow but so rushed at the same time?? like i genuinely don't even know how to describe it. it was just so WEIRD. the conflicts with anderson and the other supreme commanders had NO stakes to me, and it just felt so strange. everything got wrapped up too quickly. the emmaline subplot was so weird to me and so boring, i didn't care about it.

i was hoping the ending would be better so i could bump it up to 2 stars but it was even worse?? like it was so rushed and stupid. it was all tied up so badly. i was like they can't possibly end it here, and then all of a sudden it said epilogue and i was like TF???

most of all, these characters just don't feel the same to me anymore. not juliette, not warner, not kenji. it was like all the character development from the previous books was just gone out the window. the writing style felt like the first book again, like it felt like slam poetry. but i didn't care that much when i was reading the first book, because i loved the plot and the characters.

i feel like tahereh made the same mistakes as ignite me in the sense of wrapping it up too quickly and not giving any insight into the future, but it was easy to overlook those issues in ignite me bc the book was so good. imagine me, on the other hand, was not. i'm just confused because i thought she continued the series for that purpose??

i don't know, i'm just SO disappointed with this book. it felt so rushed, i honestly don't know where tahereh's head was at when she was writing it...the original trilogy is still one of my all time favorites, so i'm honestly just going to pretend the new series doesn't exist, especially imagine me. i just can't believe this was the FINALE??? like wtf. like i said, i know some people complain that ignite me was rushed, and tied together too nicely at the end, and i see where they're coming from, but like...ignite me had a good plot to me. i cared about the characters. i didn't in this book. i didn't care about anything in this book, honestly. it was just so bad :/

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