For my first review i'm going to start off with one of my favourite books (plus the other two in the series) of all time. Werewolves are my favourite supernatural creature, screw vampires and witches, werewolves are the way to go. This may contain spoilers because i actually wrote this for a book report for my English class.
Grace Brisbane is a 17-year-old girl who lives in a house on the boundary of Mercy Falls woods, which is in Minnesota. When she was eleven, she was dragged off of her tire swing and attacked and bitten by a pack of wolves. But one wolf with deep yellow eyes spares her life and let's her go without killing her. But he still watches her from the woods everyday in Winter and Autumn for six years. That wolf is Sam.
My favourite character is Sam Ross. Because he is kind hearted and loyal, and he won't let anything happen to Grace. He loves reading and works in a bookstore in the Summer, when he is human. When he is a wolf, he has brown fur and yellow eyes. He is 18-years-old and has a slim build. When people see him in town they always ask if he's wearing contacts. He just says yes so people don't get suspicious. No one is suppose to know about the wolves, the only people who know are Olivia, Isabell Culpepper, the wolf pack and Grace of coarse. Sam secretly sleeps beside Grace every night in her bed. Grace doesn't tell her parents because they would ask too many questions. Sam doesn't have a home, not really. Beck was Sam's only family, but now he is a wolf for the rest of his life, and Sam doesn't want to stay at the pack's house by himself. “I can't bare the thought of not sleeping beside you every night, Grace, it would feel to unnatural.” So that concludes why my favourite character is Sam Ross.
Grace is shy and doesn't have many friends, apart from Olivia and Rachael. Isabell and Grace don't really see eye to eye, they're to different. Grace is shy, Isabell is popular, and Isabell's family is richer so they think they're better than the Brisbane's. Grace loves to read and keeps to herself a lot. Everyday for six years, she would look out of the windows of her house and into the wood, looking for “her wolf”. Sam.
The most important part in the book is when one day a boy called Jack Culpepper gets killed by the wolves. But he doesn't die, he just turns into a werewolf, though only a few people know that. The town's people go on a wolf hunt. Grace is worried that he wolf will get hurt, so she runs into the woods to find him. But she doesn't and gets escorted out by a policeman, who takes her home. When she gets home, she sees a naked boy on her deck. There blood everywhere, on the sliding door and on the deck. He had been shot. But as a werewolf, your wounds heal fast if they are not that critical. Grace cleans up the wound and the blood and gives him some clothes. They have a coffee and talk, and Grace sees the boy's eyes, it was her wolf. He tells her that his name is Sam. Sam and Grace become close and hang out everyday, he also secretly stays over every night also. They look after the new wolves and try and find a cure. If you get bitten by a werewolf, then you turn into a werewolf yourself, but Grace was the first one not too. Without this part in the book Grace would have never met Sam, so that concludes why this part was the most important in the book.
Shiver was a great book. I am definitely going to read the other two books in the series. I would recommend this book for girls aged twelve and up, boys might not be interested in the romance side enough to read it. I liked how the writer got every character in the books' perspective. Nothing was confusing and it wasn't hard to fit the pieces together.
➸Shania
