She’s a girl who has been kept in solitary confinement for almost a year, and prior to that was treated like a leper by her own family and larger community. This is a dystopian YA with a focus on romance, but attention is also paid to the main character’s unique powers, tragic past, and deeply damaged psyche. It shaped up to be pleasantly surprising and a very solid first entry that had me wanting to read the next book immediately. There are many mixed reviews of this series online so I went into it with a great deal of uncertainty. Juliette has to make a choice: Be a weapon. Maybe she’s exactly what they need right now. Maybe Juliette is more than a tortured soul stuffed into a poisonous body. Now so many people are dead that the survivors are whispering war– and The Reestablishment has changed its mind. The Reestablishment said their way was the only way to fix things, so they threw Juliette in a cell. Diseases are destroying the population, food is hard to find, birds don’t fly anymore, and the clouds are the wrong color. The world is too busy crumbling to pieces to pay attention to a 17-year-old girl. As long as she doesn’t hurt anyone else, no one really cares. No one knows why Juliette’s touch is fatal. The last time she did, it was an accident, but The Reestablishment locked her up for murder. Juliette hasn’t touched anyone in exactly 264 days.
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