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Shiver (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #1)

Maggie Stiefvater

Start date: July 1, 2013

Finish date: July 31, 2013

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Feb 10, 2013 Simmaron rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, books-i-want-to-own, male-povs, fantasy-fiction, paranormal-romance, action

It is a introspective YA romance book. Nowadays it is very hard to find such books with so strong emotion of love. Grace and Sam share a different sort of love which is very hard to define. This book shows us that love is not only a physical feeling. It is an innocent feeling/emotion in which two people care for each other. Sam and Grace shares this feeling from the age of 12 and 11 resp. For them it wasn't necessary that for Sam, Grace was human and for her he was a Wolf. As a wolf also he care It is a introspective YA romance book. Nowadays it is very hard to find such books with so strong emotion of love. Grace and Sam share a different sort of love which is very hard to define. This book shows us that love is not only a physical feeling. It is an innocent feeling/emotion in which two people care for each other. Sam and Grace shares this feeling from the age of 12 and 11 resp. For them it wasn't necessary that for Sam, Grace was human and for her he was a Wolf. As a wolf also he cared for her in an extraordinarily way, saved her from his own. And she knowing that it was a yellow eyed wolf which addresses as "My Wolf" was not scared from something so wild. She spent her Christmas every year with a wolf. C'mon who all among us will readily spend our days staring back at a wolf which care about us.
Not only love but this book also shows us that how some parents don't pay as much attention to their children which should be paid and which they need at certain ages. And that some don't believe their real children as much as the adoptive parents do. It is a book which covers all the major and serious aspects of a teenage life in a very entertaining and philosophical manner. All the characters Sam, Grace, Isabelle, Beck, Jack have their own problems but they don't give up and try the level best to solve them with help and their own. For a werewolf it is very difficult to hold back change but Sam did for Grace and even when he is a wolf he is very much aware of his humanity and of Grace. This was one of the most extraordinary thing in this book that he doesn't forget about her when he can't comprehend with his human mind. Isabelle helps Sam and Grace not because of his own brother but somewhere she needed a real friend which she found in Grace and didn't want to lose her. Beck played a very important role in Sam's life whatever he is, is because of him and he risks himself to change to find Sam for his love Grace and for his humanity so that he may get cured and spend his entire life happily with everything he always wanted in his life. Shelby: One of the character which exist in all our lives. She wants power, and to become a ruler. And for that she is ready to take any step which made her inhumane even when she used to be in human body. She became a savage even when she wasn't. She doesn't love Sam she wants him for power. We all have same problems but different ways of solving or dealing with them this is what this book tells us. I loved this series. This isn't like any other book I've ever read. ...more

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Oct 18, 2012 Sarah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, romance

This book was going to be a three star until about forty pages from the end which managed to gain one more star. I think I was expecting more from this book after a friend had been nagging me to read it for years and now I finally have I don't really see what the big fuss was about this book. I think it was the storyline mostly which didn't appeal to me, it was described to me as like Twilight but without the vampires and wolves and I like Twilight (not as obsessed as some) and this book is noth ...more

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