Am I the only one who thinks Juliette was being unfair to Warner here?
So I first tried reading Shatter Me about 4 years ago and DNF’d it because I found Juliette’s characterisation really jarring. I recently decided to give the series another chance, and I’m actually enjoying it a lot more this time around.
But I’m thinking back to the chapter where Juliette and Warner break up, and I have to say… I’m struggling with Juliette’s reasoning.
She breaks up with Warner because she feels betrayed that he didn’t tell her she was adopted, along with the other things he’d recently discovered about her past (I may have misinterpreted this, please correct me if I’m wrong haha). And I completely understand being upset about finding out something that huge about yourself.
But didn’t Juliette also keep the fact that Warner had TWO biological half-brothers until she was basically forced to tell him? And as far as I understand it, Warner forgave her pretty much immediately.
That feels arguably more significant to me because these are people she actually knew about and deliberately didn’t tell him (I understand she wanted to but Adam made it difficult for her but still), whereas Warner had only just discovered most of this information himself.
I’m not saying Juliette wasn’t entitled to feel hurt or betrayed - obviously she was. But the way the breakup is framed feels a little hypocritical to me? It seems like Warner is expected to be completely transparent with her while she gets more of a pass for keeping major information from him.
Maybe I’m missing some context or there’s something I’m not considering.
Do you agree with Juliette here, or do you also think her reaction to Warner was unfair?
(I’d genuinely love to hear other perspectives because maybe I’m interpreting the situation completely differently)