Hello and welcome to worst bestsellers, where we read about the power of teen horniness to overcome the odds so you don't have to.

I'm Renata.

And I'm Kate. And for this episode, we read Shatter Me by Tehara Maffi. Joining us to discuss this untouchable dystopia is Maggie,

bookseller and young adult who is just barely too old to be a YA protagonist. Hello.

Hi, thanks for having me. Thanks for joining us. barely too old to be a YA protagonist. Hello. Hi.

Thanks for having me.

Thanks for joining us.

Right at the top to address, I'm dying and I'm sorry for the audio quality, but I'm dying.

Did Juliet touch you?

Is that why you're dying? Oh, that's so terrible.

My gosh. Another thing I want to address right at the top is that I know that Teheromafi has had some

like real shitty online abuse because she's a Muslim and a writer in America in 2019

and our official stances that that's really shitty and she seems like a cool person

and we just wanted we just want to talk about the bonkersness of her book which also

I kind of liked anyway but I just really wanted to address that off the top that she seems like a cool person all around.

I didn't know that any of that about her, and that does suck.

I, in a really weird twist, I really liked this book.

It's not like normally my jam at all, but I really liked the prose and I found it very readable.

So good job, I guess.

Well, I mean, and that I know that that's probably a controversial opinion on this podcast and we'll discuss it as we go forward.

But yeah, I did really like it.

Yeah.

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