And while Warner was enlightening Juliette of this he acted as if she was somehow magically meant to realise that the whole thing had been in her mind.Ģ. Juliette hated that Warner made her torture and possibly kill a toddler… It turned out the whole thing was just a simulation and nothing of the sort happened. The whole thing was pathetic, some examples:ġ. I rolled my eyes at Warner's 'redemption' and at the attempt at making him seem more like a good guy than a bad guy. I HATED Mafi's attempt at manipulating readers to hate one love interest and root for the other, it was insulting and plain lazy writing. I'm not even Team Adam or Team Warner but the way Mafi twisted things and made 180 character changes so that Warner was the perfect love interest and Adam was the abusive, jealous, bitter psycho ex was beyond infuriating. It was all so underwhelming and poorly executed. The rest of Ignite Me consisted of Juliette and co coming up with a poorly thought out plan to kill evul leader Anderson and take over the Reestablishment with their x-men like powers. There was hardly no action or plot, the majority of the book was spent on Juliette's whining, Warner being all emo, Juliette and Warner moaning about their pwecious feelings for each other, and Adam being a dick. Now she wants revenge not to mention sexy times with psycho Warner. Juliette thinks Adam, Kenji and the rest of Omega Point were killed in the war against the Reesablishment/Anderson/evul government regime. She didn't need to choose her life partner at age bloody seventeen. Why did Juliette even have to end up with anyone? Why couldn't she have told both Adam and Warner to piss off and just enjoyed being a teenager with other interests who dated around before settling down.

The plot and the main characters weren't much better. The romance in this wasn't just cringey and fucked up, it was also cheesy, predictable, cliched, and nonsensical.

I think these YA romances are getting more and more unhealthy, creepy, unrealistic, and silly.

Shatter me