Imagine Me
Tahereh Mafi, 2020
Fantasy Science fictionRomanceYoung adult
A YA fantasy romance of dangerous powers and obsessive love, told in a voice that keeps breaking into poetry and crossed-out thought.
Feels like longing and dread. About identity, love and power.
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The particular fury of a wedding morning with nothing to wear.
But it’s my wedding day,” she says. “And I have nothing to wear.” “You’re right.” I kiss the top of her head. “I’m going to kill him. Tahereh Mafi.Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me series found a second life on BookTok, years after publication, sending the backlist onto bestseller lists again.
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Questions readers ask
- What is Imagine Me like?
- Feels like longing and dread. About identity, love and power.
- What should I read after Imagine Me?
- If you liked Imagine Me, try Fifty Shades Darker (E.L. James), The Queen of Nothing (Holly Black) and Once Upon a Broken Heart (Stephanie Garber).
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Some attractions come with the warning already built in.
Christian nods as he turns and leads me through the double doors into the grandiose foyer. I revel in the feel of his hand and his long, skilled fingers curled around mine. The familiar pull is there—I’m drawn, Icarus to his sun. I’ve been burned already, and yet here I am again.
Fifty Shades Darker · E.L. James
A plea that would rather have a fight than silence.
Come home and shout at me. Come home and fight with me. Come home and break my heart, if you must.
The Queen of Nothing · Holly Black
The lie inside every story we love enough to believe.
She might not have seen much evidence of magic outside of the oddities in her father’s curiosity shop, but she had faith it existed. Her father, Maximilian, had always spoken of magic as if it were real. And her mother had been from the Magnificent North, where there was no difference between fairytales and history. All stories are made of both truths and lies, she used to say. What matters is the way that we believe in them.
Once Upon a Broken Heart · Stephanie Garber
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