Unfortunately, he’s a soldier under orders from Warner, a power-hungry 19-year-old. Adam, it turns out, is immune to her deadly touch. After months of isolation, her captors suddenly give her a cellmate-Adam, a drop-dead gorgeous guy. Juliette’s journal holds her tortured thoughts in an attempt to repress memories of the horrific act that landed her in a cell. Juliette was torn from her home and thrown into an asylum by The Reestablishment, a militaristic regime in control since an environmental catastrophe left society in ruins. Readers who decide to go with the flow will reach a violent and surprising payoff, but it will take dedication to get there.Ī dystopic thriller joins the crowded shelves but doesn't distinguish itself. In this shifting moral environment, there is so little to trust that the authorial manipulation of events becomes all too evident. Readers familiar with the first book will find seeming inconsistencies (Kyla’s visceral reaction to blood late in the book contrasts with a not-so-visceral one in an early scene) confusing, and they will wonder how and why the other characters seem to change personalities as quickly as Kyla does. Coincidence? Irritatingly vague events and dream sequences abound and seem to have import, but the threads fail to cohere.

The family she is placed with has direct ties to a martyred prime minister, and her personal doctor is the one who invented the Slating process.

Readers are left to puzzle out what actually happened and why. While Kyla has escaped the worst effects of being Slated (the wiping of her previous life and memories), her personality has definitely been fractured, as the title indicates. Kyla’s past lives as Lucy and Rain are indistinct and muddled. Those intrigued by Terry’s first book about Kyla ( Slated, 2012) will find themselves swimming in a morass of her memories in this second.

Shattered by teri terry