I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves. They were licking me, biting me, worrying at my body, pressing in.
Six years ago, Grace Brisbane was attacked by wolves while she was swinging on the tire swing in her backyard. She was 11 years old. She didn't struggle or fight. She remembers one wolf, the one with yellow eyes. And somehow, she survived.
Grace is now 17-years old, and she has never forgotten the wolf, her wolf. She can't wait for each Minnesota winter, when the wolves return to the woods in back of her house. Her wolf comes to watch her, too. For six years, Grace watches her wolf, and her wolf watches her.
The people of Mercy Falls don't know that a pack of werewolves live in their woods. But problems begin to happen when Jack Culpepper is killed and the citizens of Mercy Falls want to kill all of the wolves. One wolf is shot, wounded. Graces searches for her wolf and finds him on the deck in her back yard. It's Sam Roth, a 17-year old boy.
Grace learns about Sam's pack. She learns how they change from human into wolf form when the weather gets cold. She learns that new ones change rapidly, without warning. She also learns that this is the last time Sam will be human. It is late fall, and the temperature is dropping.
How can Sam and Grace be together? Why didn't Grace change into a wolf after she was bitten six years ago? And what will happen with the pack as a result of Jack Culpepper's recklessness?
Maggie Stiefvater's love story between a girl and a wolf reads a lot like the Twilight series. Each chapter is narrated by either Sam or Grace, and the temperature is indicated. If you like romantic books, you'll enjoy Shiver.
Rating: 6 out of 10 stars
*Mild language, sexual inference
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The next book:
The newest book in the series will be released on July 12, 2011.
