Defy Me by Tahereh MafiMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The greatest present I got on my 25th birthday? Learning the title and release date for this book from Tahereh Mafi herself.
Of course, this year we're extra blessed when Mafi tells us the title and release date for her next book in the series - the last one too! - so soon after Defy Me's release. And after finally reading her latest, that blessing is real, because this book is one of Mafi's best yet - building on the shocking, shocking revelations from the end of Restore Me and adding even more truths that I never would've seen coming, even as a student of the original trilogy who's read and reread all three of those books at least three times. But all those truths are more than enough to fill this, the slimmest book yet in the series - a book jam-packed with three dynamic POVs (Juliette, Warner, and now making his main-series debut after narrating the Shadow Me novella, Kenji Freaking Kishimoto himself) and a metric ton of surprises and twists and cathartic violence and sweet love scenes that only Mafi could write - and make it well worth the buy. Next year it all ends with Imagine Me, and while this book ends on a far sweeter note than its predecessor (literally), it's no less urgent for it, gentlefriends. That wait of one more year is gonna be nigh unbearable!
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