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a mini rant

tahereh mafi if you ever see this i’m so sorry and i love your books

I really hate to do this and I’ve been putting it off but I’m honestly disappointed in imagine me. It had it’s good moments don’t get me wrong but the progression and the end didn’t feel like the end? I mean they’ve built up the reestablishment so much, and the ending was just a disappointment. I had this whole theory that the reestablishment had planned on putting Emmaline into Warner’s body, I mean why else would Anderson at the end of Defy me talk to Warner about how he was strong enough for something? Instead, Anderson laughs off the idea when warner wants to sacrifice himself, steals Ella, takes away her memories and makes her into his lil slave that is creepy because Juliette is attracted to him.

If I had written the last book, Emmaline wouldn’t have messed with Ella’s mind because Ella is Emmaline’s only hope and her sister and instead they take a small group to go steal Emmaline away or kill her. They go back to oceania but find out the reestablishment took Emmaline to a different continent, and during their failed attempt at rescuing her, Warner gets taken because he had separated from the group to do something. Ella was the one to start going quiet, and it scares Kenji.

Warner and Emmaline are in Nazeera’s city, and Nazeera knows this because of how closely her father was working on this. She, Ella, Kenji, Stephan, and Haider go. Haider can’t stop going on about he’s saving his best friend, and Stephan can’t stop telling them all how dangerously stupid the plan is considering there is none. A day after they make it to the same city and hide out, Ella abandons them all to go find Warner. Kenji was with Nazeera and she showed him around the city and good places to disappear at (her favorite places) and when they get back she’s gone and he’s not surprised but pissed.

This whole time they’ve been wearing Emmaline down to get her brain level down to make the transfer and they’ve been preparing Warner’s body for it too. While he’s been going through surgeries, he sees Adam and they’re thrown in the same cell because together their powers are utterly useless, and they get some brotherly development. Adam starts to finally understand Warner, and when Anderson goes to take Warner away to have his body switched, Adam turns Anderson’s power off. Warner realizes he can feel this because his energy is turned off, and Warner kills Anderson in some interesting way idk. Warner and Adam start to run but Ibrahim kills Adam, shoots him right beside Warner. Warner tries to kill Ibrahim but Ella’s dad sedates him with a tranq.

Warner is unconscious, and they’re trying to make the transfer because Ella is killing her way through the facility thanks to Emmaline and her powers obviously. Kenji and Nazeera hear about it because the city goes on lockdown, and they bring the four of them to go help Ella. Ella finds Warner, but she thinks no one is with him and Emmaline, and Emmaline warns her to stay back. Her father comes out of hiding, holds a gun at her but he’s shaking cause he knows it won’t work and he’s scared of her. Emmaline warns her that someone is behind her, Ella mortally injures Ibrahim by like choking him and tossing him across the room. Warner starts to wake up as the transfer is starting to happen and he’s in a lot of pain, and Ella threatens her father to make it stop. He refuses at first, believing someone would carry on his work and if Ella wanted it to stop she would have to kill him so it would be fair that she’d have to without him as he had to live without her mother. Ella asks what if she killed Emmaline, and he goes quiet before he starts trying to guilt her into not killing Emmaline but Emmaline is begging her to.

Ella tosses her father away and puts him unconscious. She turns on her touch killing power and kills Emmaline while showing her every one of her favorite memories with her, and she cries but Emmaline thanks her. When Emmaline dies, Warner goes quiet and Ella thinks for a second maybe they were connected in some way and she killed them both but he is okay. He stands up and kinda weakly goes over to her and they kiss and fussy reunion, but boom Ella’s dad says sike I’m still alive and claims he’s not letting them walk out of there alive because he hates Ella for killing his wife. He shows them he has a button that will send the city to the ground, because it turns Ella basically into that atom bomb and as he’s about to press it Nazeera while flying plucks it out of his hand, and Kenji punches him over and over again because Ella told him what he had done to her.

Nazeera and Haider see their father, and go quiet but they know it was what had to happen, and they give him words of peace as he dies. The four were all hurt because they had been keeping soldiers from interfering with Ella and Warner, and they all sorta just limped out of the building. They see the normal sky for the first time and Haider and Kenji cry, even though Kenji hides it very well.

Ella and Warner establish a base where they and the people they trust work to destroy what’s left of the reestablishment. They work slowly as they tear away leaders and help the people recuperate so they can establish their own, it doesn’t show this much but the epilogue shows them coming back from one of these missions almost late for their own wedding. (You can’t tell me they wouldn’t be.) It ends on Ella seeing Warner at the end of the isle and flashes back and forth to a time when they had played wedding as children and to their own real wedding, ending on I do.

Anyway yeah, that’s how I would’ve written it and I’m not Tahereh so maybe it’s uncalled for for me to try to claim that’s not how it should have went. But the whole time it felt like some bizarre fanfiction, with the andersette thing and warner moving back in his character development and the warner fanclub (though that I am very glad exists) but the little girl being killed and Juliette sees Adam, and then he never gets brought up again? I hate the guy trust me I do but how you gonna bring up his sacrifice for his brother like that and not use him but once to test Juliette’s memory? He was stupid doing it but it’s like Tahereh set up so many plot twists and lost inspiration and the book was too big so she cut out half of it.

Originally posted by hunterparrish

I literally did not read the most recent book since I was so disappointed by defy me. I think she should have kept it as a trilogy.