Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
Well it shouldn’t have come as a surprise to me that I liked Shiver about as much as the Twilight series, which I still can’t believe I wasted so many hours of life to get through. But then again, us teachers will do the strangest things to be able to have conversations with our students. I wanted to like this book and I kept a very open mind about it, but it just was not meant to be. At first, Shiver seems like it’s not going to be so bad; after all it has a plot, albeit forbidden love, again, and the language is certainly beautiful at times, but I was quick to realize that this book just wasn’t going to do it for me. Had it not been for the chapters telling me who was writing which chapter, Sam or Grace, I would have gotten really confused since the writing style doesn’t change between the two characters. We have a love story between a girl and a wolf, who is only a wolf in the winter time, but turns into a yellow-eyed boy when things warm up in the summer time. The love between them begins when the wolf saves Grace when she’s 11, she then saves the wolf when she’s 17, when she finds him as a boy, naked and bleeding on her back deck. I don’t know about any of you, but I sure as heck wouldn’t have been able to use my bedroom to nurse an 18-year-old boy back to health when I was 17 without my parents finding him, and both of my parents worked full time in the medical field. Perhaps the other two books in this series are better, but I simply have far too many other books to be reading to get sucked into another book that I will regret having spent time reading.
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