Restore Me

Seventeen-year-old Juliette Ferrars is one of the narrators and the protagonist of Restore Me. The beginning of the novel shows Juliette fresh off a triumph at the end of Ignite Me, the previous book of the series. She has successfully killed her enemy, Anderson, and has taken over Sector 45. Her relationship with her boyfriend, Aaron Warner, is finally established. She finds this satisfaction is short-lived, however, as she learns that she is less prepared to lead Sector 45—let alone all of North America—than she anticipated during her triumphant declaration of her intention to serve as supreme commander.

Throughout the novel, Juliette works to contend with two major considerations that affect how she sees herself as an individual and as a leader. The first of these has to do with her lack of experience. Unlike Warner (and later, the children of the other supreme commanders), Juliette has had a fractured education. She spent much of her adolescence in an asylum, which she increasingly recalls as the novel goes on. She feels overwhelmed by the numerous tasks and many things she must learn to comprehend the complex geopolitical orientation of her new rule. When she sees Warner and other contemporaries speak of these geopolitical contexts without hesitation, she becomes increasingly doubtful of her own abilities.