Are the Shatter Me novellas shameless cash grabs? Yes. And yet, here I am reading the complete series, in chronological order.

Adam, the most boring character, is still boring! We get to be in his head for a change. Hooray. Mafi wants us to ship Juliette & Warner guilt-free so Adam says some totally reasonable stuff about valuing his baby bro’s life equally if not more than Juliette’s. This is book world, so we can only stan a man who is completely unhinged for our gal at the expense of any other human relationship. Bye bye, Adam! Team Warner.

There was a moment where I thought it was really sad Adam had become James’s de facto parent and lamented the parentification of children in real life and in this post-apocalyptic book world. Then Adam hit us over the head with whiney self-reflection on how he is basically James’s parent and then I lamented that writers think we’re stupid and don’t write with any nuance or subtlety lest we miss the point they want to make.

Everyone thinks everyone else is dead! DRAMATIC IRONY!

Castle & the other grown ups are either catatonic or injured. The teenagers are running the show, as should be the case if we hope to effectively overthrow the current government and establish a new, more equitable and just society. Fully developed prefrontal cortexes aren't, like, that important? Right? The children will save us in the final book in the trilogy . . . Woops no there are gonna be three more after that one. *sigh*

Off I go, then.