Destroy Me
- Published
- 2 October 2012
- Pages
- 111
- ISBN-13
- 9780008527136
- Type
- novella
About this book
Destroy Me (2012) is the first Shatter Me novella, one that reframes a central character before Unravel Me -- the kind of perspective shift that becomes the series' signature trick across its later books. It runs 111 pages, slotting in at position 1.5.
Key facts about Destroy Me
Destroy Me is a novella by Tahereh Mafi. Readers have had it since 2 October 2012. It runs to 111 pages.
Our list holds 2 editions of Destroy Me. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780008527136 to find the main one.
Destroy Me is book 2 of 13 in the Shatter Me series. The series has 13 published books. However, the series starts with Shatter Me (2011). Release Me is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 7 April 2026.
Additionally, Tahereh Mafi writes Furthermore and This Woven Kingdom as separate series. Those series sit on our young adult dystopian romance, middle grade fantasy and young adult romantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Release Me is the latest published Tahereh Mafi book on file, from 7 April 2026.
About Tahereh Mafi
Tahereh Mafi is an American author best known for Shatter Me, a young adult dystopian series narrated by Juliette Ferrars, a girl whose lethal touch has made her a weapon for a totalitarian regime, told in a distinctive, fragmented prose style full of crossed-out thoughts and heightened, poetic interiority that set it apart from other YA dystopias of its era. See every Tahereh Mafi book in order.
Its place in Shatter Me
Destroy Me is book 2 in the Shatter Me series. It follows Shatter Me. It is followed by Unravel Me. See the full Shatter Me reading order.
Shatter Me opens in a cell: seventeen-year-old Juliette Ferrars has been locked away because her touch is lethal, her every thought spilling onto the page in the fractured, strikethrough-laced prose that became the series' signature. When the totalitarian Reestablishment decides her curse could be a weapon, Juliette is pulled into a world of soldiers, secret resistances, and two magnetic young men — one who seems to offer rescue, and one who seems to embody everything she should fear. What begins as a…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9789020632729
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780008527136