“Shiver” is a romance story about teenage werewolves but it is rather unique. In this werewolf tale, werewolves are created once the human is bitten by a werewolf. The former humans change into wolves whenever it the weather turns cold. As time progresses, they need it to be warmer and warmer before they’ll turn human until, finally, they no longer can return to their former human shapes and live their lives as wolves. Grace was kidnapped as a child by wolves who attacked her, but one wolf saved her from death and returned her to her home. Since then, Grace has been drawn to the wolves. When one of her classmates was killed by a wolf, but then Grace sees a wolf with his eyes, she starts to wonder if werewolves are real. Eventually, she meets “her” wolf in human form, Sam. They fall in love and have to uncover mysteries and resolve his dwindling time as a human dilemma before they can live happily till the next installment in the Wolves of Mercy Falls series.
While Sam and Grace are in a romantic relationship, their scenes together are not overly descriptive. However, given some graphic scenes involving the wolves attacking humans, and Sam’s parents slitting his wrists after he first changes to a wolf and back, I would only recommend this book for junior high and high school students.
The Wolves of Mercy Falls is one of my favorite series of all time. If you love Maggie's writing style, you should get her new standalone novel, The Scorpio Races! i loved that one so, so much. it's brilliant.
ReplyDeletei'm glad you liked Shiver the second time of reading it! i don't think a lot of people understand how important the achingly slow pace is.
great review!