Monday, March 29, 2010

Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater

Grace was once attacked by wolves when she was young. From then on she became extremely interested in the wolves that lived in the woods behind her house, particularly the wolf with the yellow eyes that saved her from being mauled to death vice versa. After she got attacked she didn't feel scared or in danger when the wolves came near her; she thought they were harmless, but it all changed when Jack Culpeper was killed.

Jack Culpeper was Grace's classmate, and he got mauled to death by the pack of wolves that lived in the forest near the town. Well that was what everybody in the town thought; Jack Culpeper did not die, because the wolves that lived in the forest weren't normal wolves, they were werewolves. The werewolves changed back into humans when the temperature became hot and turned back into wolves in the cold weather and the longer they've been a wolf the hotter the temperature needs to be for them to turn back into wolves and one day they wouldn't be able to turn back to humans. When werewolves bite people they turn them the victim into a werewolf but abnormally Grace did not turn into one. Jack Culpeper was bitten badly so when the people found him they thought he was dead.

The town became paranoid over the fact that there were wild wolves that could threaten the life of a human living in the woods. So the townsmen decided to hunt the wolves. Grace's passion towards the yellow eyed wolf forced her stop the hunt, but she was too late and her wolf got shot. Strangely Sam (the yellow eyed werewolf) turned back into human, and he met Grace for the first time in human form.

Grace and Sam fall in love. Grace believes that her relationship couldn't go wrong, but Sam has some secrets of his own. Sam won't be turning back into a human anymore, that year would be his last. Suddenly Sam finds himself locked in a race to find a cure to his werewolf curse, all the while suspecting Jack Culpeper may conceiving some harmful secrets of his own.

This mesmerizing book tells a tale of two lovers and their obstacles in life, and their race against time to move around them . I recommend this book to people who have problems of their own, because this book can really relate to the people who are in stress. This book will give you hope, because this book has a happy ending.

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