The two narrators have distinct voices and bring individual emotional resonance to the story that makes this installment different from its predecessors. Her familiar writing style and use of literary devices move the story along in pieces and punches, especially with the dual viewpoints of Juliette and Warner, Juliettes boyfriend and son of the former supreme commander. Mafi returns to the series without skipping a beat. The world of politics is full of intrigue and sometimes tragedy, and Juliette needs to navigate and overcome both or shell be back to square one and in control of nothing. She soon realizes there is much more to leadership than calling people to battle and struggles to find her footing. Juliette thought since she had gained control over her deadly power, the ability to destroy with a single touch, that shed also be able to control a sector. Juliette has claimed her position of supreme commander, a title she had to kill to obtain, and is tasked with leading Sector 45 into the new world. Restore Me, the first of three scheduled books in the previously concluded Shatter Me series, starts up two weeks after the preceding installment ended. Fast forward a couple of years to when Mafi was re-reading the series and she suddenly knew there was more story to tell. Mafi was content with the main character, Juliettes, journey, and felt her story was complete, she recently told Entertainment Weekly. ' RESTORE ME,' by Tahereh Mafi, HarperCollins, 448 pages (f) (ages 14 and up) When the third book in the best-selling Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi came out in 2014, fans thought the series had come to an end.

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