Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

book: Shiver

written by: Maggie Stiefvater

series: Wolves of the Mercy Falls #1

genre: YA, Paranormal Romance

pages: 390

publication date: January 1st, 2009

publisher: Scholastic Press

first thoughts:

I read this book for the second time, and I still loved it, and decided to review it. Read it in 2 languages now, and I must say that English was the best one, as usual :) Also, there is a movie coming *hopefully...*^^ The cover of this book is so pretty! It's one of my all-time favourites :D I already reviewed #3 in the series, Forever.


the book: 
the cold.
Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—watches back. He feels deeply familiar to her, but she doesn't know why.


the heat.
Sam has lived two lives. As a wolf, he keeps the silent company of the girl he loves. And then, for a short time each year, he is human, never daring to talk to Grace...until now.


the shiver.
For Grace and Sam, love has always been kept at a distance. But once it's spoken, it cannot be denied. Sam must fight to stay human—and Grace must fight to keep him—even if it means taking on the scars of the past, the fragility of the present, and the impossibility of the future.

my review:

This is one of those series that appears to have haters and super-lovers, but nothing in between of that. So I'm breaking that 'rule' and become one of those in-between'ers... 

The whole romantic love story totally kind of freaked me out at the beginning, when the girl is in love with a freaking wolf, but turned out to me ok when she fell in love with the boy. Actually, Grace was my main problem *and actually one of the only problems I had with this book* that bothered me. She seems Bella-ish in the first piece of the book. When you later find out that her character has depth and isn't annoying and whiny at all, she is a great character, but still... 

Sam, the wolf, is a totally loveable character, and I , of course, fell for him :s Really, he is one of those YA boys that isn't bad boyish, which is great. The best thing about the romance and characters in this book was that there is NO LOVE TRIANGLE *yeah, it's true, this book is truly amazing on that point* How great is that?! Thumbs up, Maggie Stiefvater!

The plot of this book includes something for everyone. It has action, romance and even something to laugh about. Still, there isn't happening a lot, but it didn't really matter to me, because the romance just totally made the story epic to me. And I don't even like romance :o

The plot of this story is nothing very special, but the way the story is told was just so good, that you could race through the pages. The story is almost poetic, and since some parts of Sam's POV are including song lyrics, they become even more poetic ^^ Too bad that it was impossible to translate it right :c Go English!

final thoughts:
A an amazing book filled with romance, some werewolves and important stuff about low temperatures in the colder part of America that is every teenage girls' dream


rating:
4 stars :)


movie news:
Check out the IMDb page of the movie for news *if there will be a movie etc.*:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520490/


xo Mar

Forever (Wolves of the Mercy Falls #3) - Maggie Stiefvater

O my god, I espected this book to be sooooooo good!!! (and it was)
Hell, I loved it (or at least most of it)


title: Forever
part of a series?: yes, Wolves of the Mercy Falls
author: Maggie Stiefvater


first of all, I must tell you that it totally L.O.V.E.  the cover, like all the covers of the books in this series. Also, I like the colour of the letters, which is red, my favourite :D


Summary of the book:
- spoilers if you did not read shiver and linger -
Sam is finally cured, and now Grace is changing. She is walking through the forests, in her wolf form. Sometimes she changes back, but never it's long enough to meet Sam. Also there still is Cole, figuring out a cure. The wolves are threathened, after they kill someone. They will all be shot soon. Will Sam and the others find a way to save the wolves, or will they all die?


my opinion:
- spoilers - 
I totally LOVED the book!! I love the wolves, and the way they think. I love the romance between Sam and Grace, and Isabelle and Cole. The book made me cry when I thought Cole died, which he (luckily) hadn't. It made me love Sam even more. It made me feel stupid, because Cole seemed so smart. It made me want to be a wolf, but only sometimes :)


Also, I love the way Maggie Stiefvater writes. It's a kind of poetic, but not very difficult to read. I really like all the parts of German poems she put in the book. I thought she did that because she was German, but after checking her site, I saw she was American...  (I tought she was German because of her surname, vater means father xD )


But, one thing totally ruined it, one of the most important things, the ending. That was so horrible. The ending of a trilogy, and you just don't know what will happen -.- I espected there'd be an ending in epilogue-form. Like it was at the Hunger Games and Harry Potter. ( I do not really like those endings, but I just want to know what happens to the main characters...) 
Do they get happily-ever-after or will Grace die? I am seriously dying to know it, but I will never know ;c


Altogether I will rate this book 4 stars 


one of the most amazing series I have ever read, and one of the worst endings. Loved it and I'm sure that I will re-read this book next year! Thanks for the awesome experience, Maggie Stiefvater! 


Can't wait to read her next series, the scorpio races!


x Margot-who-just-fell-in-love-with-the-wolves


sorry but I just had to post this blog message in the same colour as the book letters :$