Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1)

By Maggie Stiefvater

Editions: audiobook, ebook, hardcover, paperback

Published: August 1st 2008 by Scholastic Press

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal / Romance

Source: own copy

In a Note: it was just not for me

For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can’t seem to live without.
Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human… until the cold makes him shift back again.
Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It’s her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever.
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Review

OK, so I don’t really know why I picked up Shiver in the first place, aside from the ridiculously beautiful cover and the constant praise I was hearing about this book.

It certainly didn’t live up to its potential. I just simply don’t know what to say about this book, I don’t think it even deserved a rant from me because I just didn’t care about what was happening.

Sam and Grace, the protagonists, were both so emotionally detached and flat that I had a hard time accepting them as anything more than pre-programmed cliche book characters. The wolf dynamic was interesting enough to hold my attention some, but that just got triumphed with the absolutely shallow world building and characterization.

I do give Stiefvater props for her writing. It’s beautiful, elegant, and certainly very lyrical, and I enjoyed her descriptions very much, but just couldn’t get into the story being narrated from the POVs of two very un realistic teenagers.

I do recommend it because it definitely has a cold ring to it, but this time it was just not for me.

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My passport tells everyone my name is Madiha, but anyone who's ever spoken to me has called me Maddy. I'm a high school junior who will do anything to get my hands on the latest book written by Laini Taylor and maybe a Snickers bar. I adore Young Adult Literature and consider myself a YA enthusiast going borderline obsessive. For me, the best smell in the world is the smell of new books, though the smell of chocolate would suffice. When I'm not plotting on which protagonist to kill next for having an amazing an amazing boyfriend, you can find me trying to learn the basics of web designing or maybe book and chocolate shopping, because for me, there is nothing better in the entire world than to be curled up eating chocolate while reading your favorite book.

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