Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Shiver is the story of a girl who was attacked by wolves when she was younger.  She survived and ever since then one wolf has stuck around and appears to watch her. She becomes attached to this wolf; however it only ever comes around in winter. The pack of wolves that are behind Grace’s house she finds out are werewolves.  They are able to turn depending on the weather. In the summer they get to return to human form. Grace the main girl is a typical girl she likes to stick to herself. it is the story of the wolf boy Sam and grace falling in love and having to deal with the problems of Sam turning every time it gets cold.

This is a very clique story, of boy girl falling in love and having to come over the fact of one of them being a supernatural character. It is a sort of twilight book. However twilight has a bit more of an enticing story line. It is a cute book and has a nice love story, however we have seen this story in so many books and it is not that original. However the author does get some credit as she did write the book before the twilight series. The writer Maggie Stiefvater has pretty basic writing style.

The book ticks all the books for teenage girl fantasy with a supernatural person. Like many books has romanced werewolves and made them nice and misunderstood.

It is very easy read; it is a slow pacing book and at times drags on for a bit too long. The book needs a bit more of a wow factor and a little less stereotypical elements in the character, the writer needed to put something new into the book to shake up the story.

Even though there are some negatives to this book, i did enjoy reading it, the love story was cute. i guess i just wanted to see something more from this book. However if you enjoy love stories and you enjoyed twilight i would defiantly suggest this book for you.