Shiver

Shiver

Maggie Stiefvater

390 Pages

"For once in my life,
I was here
and nowhere else."

When Grace was a very young girl, she was attacked by the wolves. She didn't fight, but for some reason the wolf with the yellow eyes stepped in, saving her. After that, even when she couldn't remember the attack, she felt a connection to that wolf, watching at the window for it every winter. 

Sam was a wolf, but he was also a boy. When the air became cold, he would turn. Even though he didn't know who the girl was when he was wolf, he stared at her from the cover of the trees.

After the wolves attacked a popular high school boy, seemingly having killed him, a group of angry men set out to kill the wolves. Grace steps in, not wanting the wolf she considered hers to be killed. When her wolf is shot, he changes into a boy, making her crush on the wolf into a tangible thing. The two fall quickly in love, and fight to find a way to keep Sam from returning to his wolf form forever.

I was actually very disappointed in this book. Maybe I built it up too much in my mind, but it ended up being a lot less amazing than I had imagined it would. It is mostly just an "Oh, I love you, don't leave me" kind of thing, which honestly kind of annoys me in a lot of books. I think the subplot with Sam's pack members might have saved it a little, but overall it wasn't a great story, and I probably won't read its sequel.

Pages this Semester: 7412

"Hard to accept the end of a story 

that won the villain against heroes."

-Toba Beta