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Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

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fanboyriot's review

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challenging slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
This was like a Twilight wanna be but with a focus on wolves.

I hated the characters.  Genuinely really couldn’t care about them.  Grace treated her friends and family like shit, all of her attention is on her wolf.  She is incapable of empathy apparently.  Sam is so whiny and nearly has insufferable as Grace.  And their romance was giving nothing, they was zero chemistry between them.

Spice Level: n/a
Angst Level: n/a
POV: Duel, First Person
Release Date: 01, August 2009
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mookayla's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional hopeful reflective sad fast-paced
  • Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

This was a re-read for me! My first time reading it, I was in high school at the peak of my Twilight phase, and I gave it 5 stars. I was worried that it wouldn't hold up now that I'm 27 (and somehow still at the peak of my Twilight phase); but it absolutely did! I'm honestly surprised that this series isn't still talked about more. The writing is beautiful and really transports you to the enchanting woods of Mercy Falls. (Most) of the characters are impossible not to love (they could never make me like you @ Shelby). And the story... the story has me so scared because this book was perfect, and I never finished the series, so what do you mean there's MORE?!? 😅 I feel like I also have to mention that some of the things in this book blew my mind due to it being a YA with no TW's (2009 was a different time) 😅 but this is one of the books that made me who I am. It helped shape my interests as a reader and fall more in love with reading. Forever grateful, and if you haven't read it- I highly recommend! ♡ 

Spice:
• Fade-to-Black

If You Liked That, Read This:
• Fruits Basket
• Twilight
• ACOTAR
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walkingcha0s's review against another edition

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lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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epeolatrist's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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alylovesbooks's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Reread 2024. I love this book as I did the first time, I can't believe it's been years since I last read it. And now I can't read linger until I get home.. this book is so amazing .it pulls at. Your emotions ! Def recommend
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nicosta_music's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Shiver felt like a non-Mormon version of Twilight. It's your typical human/supernatural creature romance, except at least in this book the main characters are likeable and not complete creeps. Generally an entertaining read if you want a cute romance with an interesting subplot. My biggest issue was
the whole cure method -- you're really telling me your best hope for a cure is to inject yourself with some rando's disease-ridden blood? Come on, I know lycanthropy is bad, but I think other, potentially incurable life-threatening diseases are worse.
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rybass08's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

A very stoic book, of love pulling back and forth between two worlds. Heartbreaking and hurtful to read, wanting the change to be permanent so that they can be together forever.
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breannescott's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

Is a good introduction into werewolves as a genre. It can be read as a standalone.

It made me cry and had a happy ending. 
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thebookcoyote's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

TW/CW: Child abuse, violence, death, sexual situations 

REVIEW: Shiver is the story of Grace, a high school student ignored by her parents who finds herself obsessed with the wolves in her backyard after an attack when she was younger. It is also the story of Sam – one of those wolves – werewolves – who has been watching her just as long. 
I enjoyed this book. It’s not the best book ever written, but it’s fast moving and not an entire waste of time. I liked the werewolf mythology in this book – it was unique and not like anything I’d ever read before. It was also an interesting way to bring tension into the book. The writing was easy to read, although sometimes I thought it got a bit flowery and a little emo – but that could just be because it’s a YA book and young adults are often flowery and a little emo.
The book has a bit of odd pacing. It seems to crawl for the first 300 pages, and then shove the whole climax and conflict into the last <100 pages. And I found the ending – not the last page, but how the last page was accomplished – to be kind of silly and brought in from nowhere. I don’t think this story will stand up very well if you start searching for plot holes, so I’m just not going to. 
This was an enjoyable book, even if it was far from perfect. If you like sappy YA and werewolf stories, I recommend this book. 

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bes13's review against another edition

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adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing sad fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? N/A
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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