"For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without.
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. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human—or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever." - Goodreads
Before I started reading Shiver I read a lot of reviews on Goodreads claiming that this book is just like Twilight. I have read three Twilight books when I was around 15 and I really liked them so I decided to give this series a go.
After reading for a while I could also notice some similarities between Shiver and Twilight: Grace is a girl who is in love with a werewolf. One summer Grace finds her wolf, Sam, who has yellow eyes, on her porch and that's where their love story begins. The difference between Shiver and Twilight is that in Twilight the werewolves can change their form whenever they want but in Shiver they can't. They have limited time as humans and at some point they will stay wolves forever.
“I said uselessly, "Sam, don't go."
Sam cupped my face in his hands and looked me in the eyes. His eyes were yellow, sad, wolf, mine.
"These stay the same. Remember that when you look at me. Remember it's me. Please.”
I think that the book and the story was somewhat interesting but it just reminded me too much of Twilight. Grace was also very obsessed with Sam and she couldn't bare a minute without him and his presence which I thought made the book quite annoying. Everything revolved around Sam. When the book was told from Sam's point of view (just like in one of the Twilight books) it was all about Grace and how much he loved her. Sam was also a fan of poems so you could see some of them in the story. He also wrote songs about Grace.
"I fell for her in summer, my lovely summer girl,
From summer she is made, my lovely summer girl,
I’d love to spend a winter with my lovely summer girl,
But I’m never warm enough for my lovely summer girl,
It’s summer when she smiles, I’m laughing like a child,
It’s the summer of our lives; we’ll contain it for a while
She holds the heat, the breeze of summer in the circle of her hand
I’d be happy with this summer if it’s all we ever had.”
All in all I think Shiver was an okay book. I don't regret reading it but I could do without it. I am not sure if I will finish the series but we will see.
My rating: 3 stars ★★★
xoxo Janina
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