Josiane Claremont's Reviews > Imagine Me

It's not as good an ending as I was expecting. Maybe it's because I crave more action scenes rather than long introspections. I love character development, but nothing's really happened here. It's honestly too predictable a book and too predictable an ending. And about this name thing, I'm still going to stick to Juliette and Warner.


Juliette is close to being merged with her sister Emmaline as part of The Reestablishment's next biggest project, Operation Synthesis. This is the resistance's final chance to stop The Reestablishment from keeping their dictatorship in control. They need to rescue Juliette and kill Emmaline before it's too late.


We finally get a book where Juliette isn't having a meltdown every other chapter; is this a sign of maturity? It only happens because (view spoiler)[Juliette is a fully brainwashed soldier for The Reestablishment so she is thinking she has to put aside her emotions (hide spoiler)] It's the best version of Juliette I've seen since book 1 Shatter Me. What does that say about the series and Juliette in general?

If there's one thing that's cringy to me, it's how emotional Juliette is. Setting aside her three-times-a-book meltdowns, her lovelife is such a mess. First Adam, then Warner, friendly with Kenji (?!) and (view spoiler)[being attracted to Anderson?! We knew he was handsome but the attraction was buffered by the knowledge of his sadism. And as a brainwashed soldier, Anderson is kind of into that?! Max did a good job calling him out on his depravity, I'll tell you that for sure!! (hide spoiler)]. We understand now, Adam was love in a weak time when they were chasing ideals. Warner is the fated soul-mate thing and she's always met up with him a bunch of times for their similar backgrounds as children of the Supreme Commanders. This thing with Kenji...

I love Kenji, but he starts out as Adam's best friend first. His allegiances morph, to being more friendly with Warner and then becoming Juliette's best friend. I don't know why, but it feels like Adam is basically completely rewritten out of the story. His relationship with Juliette is now Warner's, and his relationship with Kenji is now shared between Juliette and Warner. Adam's sole reason for living becomes James, but even with that they both play such minor roles ever since Adam's massive break-up with Juliette. Adam may have turned into a toxic boyfriend, but I think he deserved better than this.

I'm all for star-crossed lover stuff, but Warner calling Juliette "love" all the time really gives me the heebie-jeebies.