Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human — until the cold makes him shift back again. Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack.
And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves. In Linger, they fought to be together. Now, in Forever, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted.
Lives are being threatened. And love is harder and harder to hold on to as death comes closing in. Cole St. Clair has come to California for one reason: to get back Isabel Culpeper. She fled from his damaged, drained life, and damaged and drained it even more. Instead, Grace tries to keep her out of the know to protect her wolf. Apparently, a wolf is more important than a human being. Don't get me wrong. I love dogs. But if it came down to my dog or someone's brother, that dog would be gone in a millisecond.
Even if Grace knew that her wolf was a werewolf, it doesn't matter. She's known Jack and Isabelle her entire life. She's known Sam for a few days. Not even Bella Swan is that selfish.
Sam Sam is worse. I hate him. You want to know why? His existence as a boy is illogical. He's not supposed to remember his time as a wolf right? Yet he remembers Grace.
I believe I started hating him the first time he appeared as a boy. He's rude to Rachel and Olivia. He's supposed to be a cashier. He's supposed to be helpful and nice. Instead, he ignores his customers and proceeds to ogle Grace. He continues his bad customer service into book two. He's rude to Isabelle, even though her brother just died. And he survived! He's worse than Sam Uley. At least Sam Uley had no choice. He had to imprint on Emily.
It was fate. Whatever he does isn't his fault. Sam, on the other hand, is a whiny emo. He writes horrible poetry. He writes horrible songs. He sounds like the kind of boyfriend a sixteen year old girl would write into her self-insert fan fictions. Oh, and he does have a Leah. I know they aren't involved. I know Shelby is kind of crazy. But that's no excuse to treat her the way Sam does. He ignores her. Much like Damon does Drina in Evermore, an equally bad book.
The Purple Prose Cool air bit my cheeks and pinched at the tops of my ears, reminding me that summer was officially over. I squinted at the edge of the yard and stepped off the deck, trying to look nonchalant as I did. The piece of beef in my hand felt cold and slick. I crunched out across the brittle, colorless grass into the middle of the yard and stopped, momentarily dazzled by the violent pink of the sunset through the fluttering black leaves of the trees.
This stark landscape was a world away from the small, warm kitchen with its comforting smells of easy survival. Where I was supposed to belong. But the trees called to me, urging me to abandon what I knew and vanish into the oncoming night. It was a desire that had been tugging me with disconcerting frequency these days. The Pacing This story is slow and boring.
Nothing happens. What's the plot? Where's the conflict? The Romance Sam and Grace have no chemistry. If you find some, please tell me. I'm not finding any. Sam, our resident leaky womb, and Grace, our insensitive twit, share no hobbies.
Heck, Sam has more chemistry with her mother. Why do they love each other? I don't know. The Characterization What characterization? The Conclusion view spoiler [Apparently, Jack dies so Sam can live. What sort of sick shit is this? Our moral? True love is better than family.
If you liked this book, you'll like The Time Traveler's Wife. It's an equally stupid, vapid piece of crap for women. And it has some child grooming action. View all 16 comments. Shelves: favorites , , paranormal , young-adult. This is a different take on werewolves, and I really liked it. Grace and Sam first meet when she is eleven, and attacked by his pack of wolves. Grace has been fascinated by this yellowed eyed wolf ever since. Her backyard touches the forest, so she is able to observe the wolves all winter.
These wolves shapeshift based on the temperature changes of the seasons. During summer, they are human an This is a different take on werewolves, and I really liked it. During summer, they are human and during winter they are wolves. The first time he meets Grace as a human, he is 18, she is 17 she finds him shot and bleeding on her back deck.
She brings him in, and helps him out and quickly realizes that this is her wolf. His yellow eyes give him away. We just have to go with the flow that this is a story and she just immediately believes in werewolves. Her parents are pretty much absentees, so she is able to keep Sam in her room for quite a while before they even know he has been there. Sam is running out of time because this is his last season as a human before he becomes a wolf for the rest of his life.
Why has she not changed into a wolf? Is she going to? Meanwhile, some other kids have been bitten by wolves, and there is a really good subplot going on with good side characters. Ok, I'm rambling and not really saying what I want to say. I will just stop now. Check out some of the other reviews on this one. You can feel their sadness as the time ticks by. I really liked it, and I look forward to the second in this series.
View all 14 comments. Sep 02, Emily May rated it it was ok Shelves: young-adult , pnr. I can sum this book up in one sentence: Beautiful writing that cannot make up for the Twilight-esque depiction of creepy love interest and boring main character. I would, however, happily try out some of the author's other work and I just hope it doesn't focus so heavily on obsessive emo teen love.
View all 5 comments. Jun 23, Maja The Nocturnal Library rated it it was amazing Shelves: all-the-right-choices , made-me-cry , role-models , books-with-soundtracks , books-that-changed-me , werewhatevers , amazing-writing , reviewed-in , favorites , own-a-dtb. Shiver left me with a feeling of complete satisfaction, joy spiced with sadness - as weird and paradoxical as that sounds.
In fact, there were only seven until today. But Shiver deserved its place, and now there are eight. Boy saves girl, girl falls for a boy and they end up living happily ever after. I was suddenly struck by how dissimilar we were. Grace is an amazing character! I love how strong and decisive she is, always scared but never really showing her fear. She reminds me of a girl I used to be know. After the way she surrendered to the wolves at the beginning, I was afraid she would be another one of those characters.
But only a few chapters later, a huge white she-wolf showed up at her window, and instead of cowering in some corner, Grace snarled back at it!
Not many authors can make you feel such pride at the very beginning of a novel! I know this because it happened to me with Maggie Stiefvater. There are times when I too appreciate a very different writing style, more economical and crisp. View all 53 comments. I love this book as much now as I did back in the day! View all 6 comments. Oct 12, Unknown Reviews rated it it was ok Shelves: ya-reads , contemporary-fantasy , magical , cute-romance-weirdly , stars.
It was really only alright. So why did I pick up Shiver? Sam, an eighteen-year-old boy, shifts into a wolf each winter due to the cold. Did I get that? Eh, not really.
There werewolf mythology was kind of murky which was disappointing to say the least. Like really in love with him. I think love has to be earned before being given, and maybe people can grow into the role of soulmates, just not that fast. Grace, I liked less than Sam, probably because of how she treated others. My boyfriend lives in my bedroom now, so I am removed from this family.
What will never stop being funny to me is if a main character who reads poetry, they must make up their own. Note to authors: Please stop making your characters write poetry.
As usual, the supporting cast stood out more. Since this book focused on Love…. People who might like the wolf aspect…. When the wolf stuff was on the page, it was interesting. I can say I liked some of the ideas though, especially that it was the cold that caused them to change, and one year, they just won't be able to return to human form and will live as a wolf forever.
Well, the writing and the ending were quite beautiful to be honest. And this book was only about Grace and Sam, so there was nothing else to cling to. The conclusions for Olive and Beck left me staring at the page with a strange feeling for several minutes.
And the last few pages — can I say I understand exactly why this book had so many fans, other than the Twilight craze? It was actually quite sweet. It gave me that otherworldly feeling that only reading contains, that I'm living a life outside myself, and I can't describe how nice that is when it happens, especially in a book you don't expect.
So, yes, this book is mostly cloying and uninteresting. If you like instalove, you will love this. View all 18 comments. Dec 10, Melanie rated it it was amazing Shelves: young-adult , paranormal , shifters , romance , fantasy. I probably should wait a little bit to write this review, but I can't! I guess I will start out with saying that this book drew me in from the moment I laid eyes upon it. The book cover is breathtaking. Even when I opened the first page of the book I was still taken back by how simple and beautiful it was.
Yet, I can not judge a book just by its cover. I am not sure I can even find the words to describe how much I loved this book. It gave me an amazing feeling throughout the whole entire book. F I probably should wait a little bit to write this review, but I can't! From the first page to the last page. It put me in a trance, and I felt so much emotion from all the characters. I think the love between Sam and Grace is so beautiful and pure. It probably is one of the best young adult couples I've ever had the pleasure of reading about.
When I read about them I found myself saying "Edward and Bella who? This book wrapped me up in it's love! I could go on forever and a day about how this novel blew me away, but I suppose that I will end with this: Linger is now the book I am most excited for in View all 25 comments. And when I say "wolf," that's not short for werewolf - before she even Instagram Twitter Facebook Amazon Pinterest There's an old joke about TWILIGHT that you've probably heard: that it's the story of a teenage girl's struggle between necrophilia and bestiality, hurr hurr hurr.
And when I say "wolf," that's not short for werewolf - before she even finds out that he can turn human and oh , what rapturous joy that brings , she's fantasizing about the feeling of his fur under her fingers and dreaming about his eyes.
She also won't ever shut up about wolves, and chats to her two friends about wolves constantly, and then is puzzled and irritated when they want to talk about other things that aren't wolves. I might be the only person on the continental U. First, the werewolf love interest is so lame. At least Edward had some of that Old World patriarchal charm, even if he could come across as controlling and creepy; it was obvious why he was so attractive - he was good looking and sophisticated and mature.
Sam, on the other hand, is a droopy emo boy who composes poetry while they make love, and it is bad poetry, like the kind you see on Tumblr that doesn't make any sense but for some reason has thousands of reblogs. But the main reason this book gets one star is because of the heroine: Grace.
When she's not meditating on her favorite subject - wolf-lust - she's being a raging "See You Next Tuesday" to everyone in her life. The way she talks to her parents is absolutely disgusting; she is constantly snarking at them and disrespecting them and taking over their house and their things do you pay for those things, girlfriend? But the disrespect doesn't stop there - when she brings Sam home to meet the folks, she gets angry that her mom is nice to her boyfriend, and slut-shames her own mom.
I honestly don't understand why she has friends. When she's not talking about wolves, she's brushing off her friends or being rude. Everything that comes out of her mouth - that isn't some insipid drivel about how much she looooves Sam, that is - is either mean, rude, sarcastic, or brusque.
She spends a great deal of time in this book looking at people coldly or speaking coldly, especially to her parents. She's even mean to Sam, telling him to shut up several times. OMG, can she die already, please? Yet another book that is bewilderingly popular. While reading this, I'm asking myself, "Why are they living somewhere so cold if this happens? Why not move to California where it basically never snows unless you live in the mountains?
I am shook with stupidity. How would this work, but moving somewhere temperate doesn't, Captain Cop-Out? I can't with this series. I'll be the first to admit that TWILIGHT is not a great book, but it was fun and addictive and didn't have self-absorbed characters wallowing around in the pretentious prose of the narrative like it was some kind of smug, self-congratulatory swimming pool. View all 22 comments.
Shelves: reviewed , young-adult , audio. The bestiality was definitely the most beautiful part of this story. It may seem obvious to you that such would be the case, but it was not obvious to me. I am not typically a fan of falling in love with dogs. There was truly something surreal and creepy about that part of this story that grabbed me, though.
It starts out with a ghostly beauty that is legitimately respectable. And it ends with the same stark, Midwestern haunting feeling. But, the middle of this story is really, really douchey. I just wanted these kids to get a room, and then they did get a room, but kept telling me about everything.
It was like being the third wheel in a makeout session that lasted foooooreeeeveeeer. One of the most boring, boring, boring stories ever. And, man, the guy is such a douchebag.
And I certainly don't want to hear your douchey poetry. Talk about a Shelley complex. I mean, I wanted to read my administrative law cases sometimes while I was listening to this.
Then there was a really douchey interview with the author at the end of the CDs. Oh, man. She was talking about how she wrote this book to make her audience cry. For me, at least. So, the narrative in the book goes back and forth between the boyfriend perspective and the girlfriend perspective. That kind of makes sense to me as a device, but I always get caught up in thinking about narrative voices. Like, in first-person narratives, I have to create a background story in my mind for how the characters decided to write the book.
There is a thing about evil parents in here that I like, though. All of the parents were interesting to me, and they actually came off as nuanced. They were very villainous, but I think I like villainous, unreliable parents in stories. They are interesting to read about.
If only this whole book had been about the parents. Because, as it was, this experience was like only reading about the pastoral couple in Anna Karenina. Did I mention that this is a boring book?
That is your takeaway message. View all 99 comments. Jan 07, Lisa rated it did not like it Shelves: young-adult , paranormal-romance-urban-fantasy. Note: After rereading this review, I decided to make some changes. While I stand by my opinions, I was unhappy with some of the ways in which I chose to voice them. The language of this review has been edited, however, the opinions are unchanged. I read Shiver because it was recommended to me by someone who wasn't impressed with Twilight and insisted this was better.
Well, it's not, although I wouldn't go as far as to say it's worse. Mostly, I was bored to tears by the lack of a solid plot and su Note: After rereading this review, I decided to make some changes.
Mostly, I was bored to tears by the lack of a solid plot and superfluous descriptions. Sam antha There were so many problems with this novel but the most egregious one was the fact that a boy, Sam, not short for Samantha, sounded like a woman. Here are a couple examples of Sam's girlish thoughts: 1 "I found a puffy, bright blue jacket that made me look like a blimp Probably a million calories. I might have bought the second quote if Sam were extremely overweight and counting calories but he'd not and he isn't.
No way, no how. Teenspeak The teenage characters in this novel sound much older than they actually are. That said, I'm also not a fan of books like Marked by P. Cast and Kristin Cast that make all teenagers sound like airhead valley girls.
However, it is possible to polish a teenager's grammar a bit without making them sound more than a decade older than they are, or like they're from a different century. Some examples from Sam: 1 "It was a terribly cute noise. Even worse, what teenager uses the word slather? And it's bad enough that Sam uses the word, but it's worse that Grace a knows what it means, and b doesn't think it's odd that he's using the word.
More likely, a teenage boy would say "Did you tell that guy you pissed yourself? I can't imagine a situation in which any person, male or female, teen or adult, would whisper that in someone's ear unless they really had to go to the bathroom and needed that person's assistance in getting there. Of the same mind Another issue I had with this novel was that although it was written from two different perspectives both characters sounded exactly the same.
I'm a firm believer that if an author uses first person narration and switches between different characters' points of view, then each character should each have a distinctive voice especially if they're two different genders. If I didn't look at the chapter headings—and sometimes I would forget—I didn't know whose point of view I was reading. Sometimes, I was so bored, I'd drift away and when I returned back to the book I couldn't remember if it was Sam or Grace speaking.
Purple Prose A final note about the writing style. The prose was very purple. Although there were some nice descriptions, there were far more instances where they were overwrought and bogged down the story. I would put an example but there are just too many parts to choose from.
I will say that the writing in this novel was superior to the writing in the Twilight Saga. The sentence structure was generally correct and the inappropriate words were used in grammatically correct ways for the most part. Grace In addition to my dislike for the writing style, I also had a lot of problems with the characterization. I found Grace to be extremely unlikable and unsympathetic.
Her lack of empathy for anyone other than herself and Sam was appalling. In one example, Grace says: "Mercy Falls was all about rumors, and the rumor on Jack was that he got his short fuse from his dad. It seemed like you ought to pick the sort of person you would be, no matter what your parents were like. Anger management problems tend to be pervasive so it's very likely that if Jack's father has a short fuse in public, he probably also has a short fuse with his family. Let's not forget that Grace also can't forgive Jack for dying because his death threatens her precious wolves.
Never mind the fact that her wolves were actually the cause of his supposed death. No matter how awful a person Jack was, it hardly justifies being savaged by wild animals.
Grace is also a terrible friend. At least Bella didn't have any good friends to ignore for Edward. Bella only ditched her friends of a couple months, who she never liked that much to begin with, to hang out with her stalker boyfriend and his beautiful wealthy friends.
Grace has been friends with Olivia and Rachel for years and still she puts her wolf ahead of them. Then she completely abandons them once Sam becomes human.
Her failure as a friend really comes out in the end when she learns that Olivia has been bitten and is going to change into a werewolf because of Grace no less.
Yet all Grace can think about is Sam. There is a two second thought of Olivia and then it's Sam Sam Sam. Well rounded people who care about more than just themselves and their significant others can be concerned about more than one person at a time. Olivia then remains absent from Grace's thoughts for a while, and when Grace finally does remember her, she's selfishly lamenting that Olivia isn't there to help her deal with her grief over losing Sam.
She's not the least bit concerned about Olivia turning into a werewolf. Once again, Grace only thinks about herself and Sam. Sam Sam was no better than Grace in terms of his treatment of others. Here's my favorite example: "I thought—vaguely hoped—that [Jack] died too, and ceased to be a problem. At this point, Jack's only crimes are being a bully at school, showing up at the school in wolf form, and being hated by Grace. There was absolutely no reason to wish he were dead.
Sam also lacks proper empathy for Shelby in the same way that Grace lacks proper empathy for Jack. He knows about her past and yet he doesn't seem to really care. He only brings it up when he's trying to explain why she prefers being a wolf. This attitude is much more understandable once she attacks Grace later on in the book. If Shelby's relationship with Sam had been more fleshed out and her past better explored, then it would have seemed more understandable and Shelby would have been a more complex character.
Instead, she's a simplistically evil werewolf. Parenting This book is full of unrealistically terrible parents. Without some sort of mental illness, developmental delay, or drug habit, no parents are as neglectful as Grace's parents are. My issue is not that Grace's parents are absent I've seen worse parenting, unfortunately , but that there was no reason given for their neglect. Having worked with neglectful parents I can tell you there is always a reason.
How is it possible that Grace's father could have left her in a hot car and forgotten about her while she was sick?
I know that people do sometimes leave their infants and young children in the car and forget about them, usually when they're sleep deprived from being kept awake all night or because they're on drugs, but I have never heard it happening with an older child when the parent is sober.
It was especially unrealistic because Grace was sick and her parents were preoccupied with her. The hospital staff are mandated reporters and would've had to have reported this neglect to social services. What's worse is that child abuse and neglect are very serious issues and shouldn't be handled as carelessly as it is in this book.
Description I also had a problem with lack of description in this novel. Although there were plenty of useless descriptions in all of the purple prose, some very important ones were left out, particularly with regard to the characters. Often times characters weren't described in a timely manner if they were described at all.
For example, I thought the members of the wolf pack were closer in age to Sam than they actually were for a large part of the book because there was no indication given of their ages until halfway through the book. Grace is never fully described, making it hard to get a clear picture of what she looks like, and Beck isn't described until the very end despite being mentioned numerous times throughout the novel. We also never get a good description of the other wolves. Paul is simply described as "dark".
What does that mean? I need more than that to picture a character. There are several other instances where non-descriptive words are used to describe people. At one point, Sam thinks while he's watching Jack, "Something about the way he carried himself suggested overconfidence. I want to know what it is about Jack that makes him seem arrogant. His saunter, his cocky smile, etc. Another example of this is when Sam is described as having an "interesting-shaped nose". Again, I don't know what that means or how it looks.
And those are just three examples taken from many. As far as description goes I have two parting words: "Leaky womb" Romance The romance is terribly contrived and unoriginal.
There is no build-up. Grace and Sam love each other from the moment they meet while he's a wolf and they stay in love with each other until the very last page.
Their love doesn't grow because there's now where for it to grow to. The only growth in their relationship is in terms of physical contact.
Plot, or lack thereof This review is already too long but I will briefly say that the plot of this book, much like Twilight , takes a backseat to the romance. Finding a cure for being a werewolf should have been an integral part of the story, yet it isn't explored until the second half of the novel. Most of the book is spent describing Sam and Grace's love which I had a hard time buying into because there was no build up. Lyrics Lastly, the song lyrics were really bad.
Poetry and song lyrics are difficult to add to a novel and unless a writer is very skilled at that sort of writing, they should be left out. Stiefvater is definitely not a song writer. That is 8 hours of my life that I will never get back.
I know I'm in the minority here. I'm accepting it. However, I just can't see why people are so enamored with this book. I'll get all of my frustration out now by explaining a few of my main issues with this book. Okay, so let me get this straight: Sam automatically changes into wolf form when it gets to be "cold" outside how cold I guess depends on the year- it seems to vary. He can avoid shifting by layering T-shirts and wearing warmer clothes or staying inside where it is warm This is fact.
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