Release Me
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4.5 • 40 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller! An instant #1 indie bestseller! An instant #1 Globe & Mail bestseller! An instant #1 Toronto Star bestseller! A USA Today bestseller! A #1 Publishers Weekly bestseller!
The searing second volume in a new series set in the #1 global bestselling Shatter Me universe ten years after the fall of The Reestablishment.
Rosabelle Wolff had a plan. Now she wants revenge. To save her sister she needs to get back home and destroy the system that created her. Rosabelle’s greatest strength is her ability to deaden her mind and body; it’s the only way to survive the surveillance state of Ark Island. But lately her heart has been beating harder; her thoughts are spiraling; her defenses are coming undone.
And there’s only one person to blame.
James Anderson had a plan. Now he has nothing but problems. Rosabelle might be the ally they need in a fight against The Reestablishment, but no one wants to trust an enemy assassin. It doesn’t help that Rosabelle’s not much of a talker, doesn’t work well in groups, and kills people on instinct. Falling for her has cost James nearly everything—but keeping her safe might help save his world.
If only he could convince his older brother.
Aaron Warner Anderson has a headache. Something dark is coming, and Rosabelle’s arrival is just a prelude. In her, he sees shades of himself he can’t trust, and worse: he can no longer get a read on the girl. She’s a dead battery, emanating no emotional feedback. At least not until James walks into a room…
Volcanic romantic tension, breathless reveals, breakneck action—and a dystopian world that never stops raising the stakes:
Welcome back to The New Republic.
Customer Reviews
One-Star Review
This was one of the most frustrating books in the series for me. What disappointed me most was how drastically some of the characters seemed to change from the people I had grown to love throughout the earlier books.
Kenji was once one of the strongest characters in the series—funny, loyal, level-headed, and often the voice of reason. In this book, he felt almost unrecognizable. Instead of the witty and emotionally intelligent friend readers came to appreciate, he spent much of the story yelling, overreacting, and spiraling through the same conflicts over and over again.
The same could be said for several other characters. It felt as though Tahereh Mafi forgot who they were at their core. Characters who once demonstrated resilience, growth, and maturity suddenly seemed reduced to emotional outbursts and repetitive drama. Rather than evolving, many of them felt like exaggerated versions of themselves.
The excessive profanity, constant arguing, and repetitive emotional turmoil made it difficult to enjoy the story. While there were a few important plot points that moved the overall series forward, they weren’t enough to save the book for me.
By the end, I wasn’t frustrated by the circumstances the characters faced—I was frustrated by the characters themselves. Unfortunately, this felt less like a continuation of the people I had invested in and more like watching entirely different versions of them make the same mistakes repeatedly.
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