Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
12 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
in Books, reviews Tags: Boundary Woods, Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
ISBN: 978-0545123273
Rating: A
#1 Mercy Falls
SHIVER had me questioning how it would turn out and whether I would like how it ended. I wasn’t sure what the reality of the story was going to be. I’m glad with how it ended enough that I am eager to read the second book LINGER.
Stiefvater created Sam and Grace, two characters who immediately draw you into their worlds.
One winter day 6 years ago, Grace is swinging in her back yard when she is grabbed by a pack of wolves who begin to fight over her, until she finds the bright yellow eyes of one of the wolves who can’t seem to shake the heart behind her eyes. Grace is so straight and honest that when she finally finds that one person who makes her waiver from that line it makes her even more heart warming and honest. She’s the grown up in her world, and her falling in love was innocent and sweet.
Sam is a werewolf who was bitten when he was young and forced to become the animal that haunts him every winter. Sam wants to stay Sam and he fights the change every winter, but he knows that this is his last summer of being Sam forever. It takes one moment to change Sam and Grace’s life forever. When a boy is ravaged by the wolves in Boundary Woods, a hunting party goes looking for these animals and shoots Sam causing him to change back from wolf to boy. Grace finds him wounded on her deck and takes him in. He has the same eyes as the wolf who saved her 6 years before.
It’s a tender story told with maturity. This is one of the most tender love stories I’ve read in the young adult genre and I feel that this held a delicate balance between young love and true love.
