Defy Me
Tahereh Mafi, 2019
A YA sci-fi romance about a girl whose touch is lethal, the boy who loves her anyway, and the fight to reclaim their own memories.
Tahereh Mafi
Tahereh Mafi writes in a voice that feels close and fast, full of struck-through thoughts and raw nerves, where a lethal touch and a first love sit in the same sentence. Start with «Shatter Me», the first book, for the girl locked away and the boy from her past; «Destroy Me» gives the series' coldest character his own first-person voice, obsessive and watchful. Both share that heat and unease, the sense of being seen when you'd rather hide.
Feels like longing, identity and power.
Start with Defy Me.
Tahereh Mafi is married to Ransom Riggs, author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.
The ordinary moment that makes all the fighting worth it.
I want to remember to celebrate more. I want to remember to experience more joy. I want to allow myself to be happy more frequently. I want to remember, forever, this look on Aaron’s face, as he’s bullied into blowing out his birthday candles for the very first time.This is, after all, what we’re fighting for, isn’t it?A second chance at joy. Books by Tahereh Mafi
Destroy Me
Tahereh Mafi, 2012
The Shatter Me series’ coldest character gets a first-person voice: obsessive love, power, and the terror of being seen.
Shatter Me
Tahereh Mafi, 2011
A girl whose touch is lethal is locked away—until a boy from her past appears and her own voice becomes the dangerous thing.
Imagine Me
Tahereh Mafi, 2020
A YA fantasy romance of dangerous powers and obsessive love, told in a voice that keeps breaking into poetry and crossed-out thought.
Unravel Me
Tahereh Mafi, 2013
A girl whose touch can kill, the one person she can hold, and a war that asks what she is willing to become.
Ignite Me
Tahereh Mafi, 2014
A girl with a lethal touch, a rebellion she never asked to lead, and the cold young commander who keeps calling her love.
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