Shatter Me- Chapter Twelve- Warner, You're Killing Me Here

This chapter begins with Juliette finally taking a thorough shower.

She's mentally soliloquy-ing, with surprisingly few metaphors, about how she doesn't need luxury, that all she wants is to touch someone.

She does this while Adam is in the other room, dammit, and he already knows he can touch her.

Good god, Adam. There are so many more spoilers I wish I could yell (or type angrily while remaining basically expressionless) at you right now!!!

Anyway, she and Adam have a very sparse conversation about Warner wanting her to wear dresses (which is a little weird considering what he wants in their relationship) and her refusing.
He looks at her, all cleaned up, and she mistakes his surprise as possible revulsion (it's the opposite).

Warner is being awful, inexplicably awful, throughout this whole book, and it may very well be Tahreh Mafi's greatest indiscretion. Forget the metaphors, the haphazard dystopia, the grammar. Warner goes through a complete and basically unexplained 180° between now and the end of Unravel Me, and it is not okay. Sure, Juliette's perception changes, but he goes from the pervy and warped antagonist to romantic and justified and amazing. He doesn't have some earth-shattering epiphany or anything of the sort. It's like he's two different people: the sadist and the hopeless romantic, and in the first book he's basically portrayed as his father (who's just as bad as Hector, by the way) and then spends the rest of the series hating his father. It's ridiculous.

Moving along, he's expecting her to be all happy about being forced to eat with him, being all calm and calling her "love" (kinda reminds me of the creepy mom in Coraline) and she responds with something that she'll end up saying the opposite of.

"'I'd really rather die than eat your food and listen to you call me love,' I tell him."

Well, Juliette, he calls you that at least five times in the course of twenty-four hours in Ignite Me, and it serves both of you pretty well...

Jeez, this is getting spoiler-heavy. Next I'll be talking all about how Adam and Warner have-
Neeeever mind.

For whatever reason, Warner responds to this by shooting some meat. Oh no, so scary. Every soldier in this building, including Adam, could have done that.

Adam pushes some food in front of her, silently begging her to eat it. Warner sees this, and jokes about it. Kind of ironic, considering how he goes ballistic when he figures out that- Okay, I need to stop. No more spoilers.

This chapter ends with Warner telling her to eat, because she needs to look good when she's "standing beside" him. Really? She said she'd rather die that eat some damn good food after being in an asylum where you're fed mush once a day because it was involved with you in some way. Your expectations are stupidly high.

Next chapters of both this and The Night Circus will be up later today.