Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

6 reviews

prairiewolf's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad medium-paced

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

4.0

This was a different kind of werewolf story than any other I've read before. The plot seems slow, but there is an underlying tension that you can feel throughout the whole book. The characters feel real enough to reach out and touch. This is a fantastic book and the writing is magical.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Grief

nicosta_music's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse and Blood

Moderate: Car accident and Abandonment

Minor: Death, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

rybass08's review against another edition

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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Content Warnings

Minor: Animal death, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Sexual content, Violence, Vomit, Grief, Car accident, and Abandonment

grace_cr1's review against another edition

relaxing medium-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Minor: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Child death, Cursing, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Self harm, Sexism, Torture, Violence, Blood, Vomit, Antisemitism, Grief, Car accident, Murder, and Abandonment

habkehanna's review against another edition

emotional mysterious fast-paced

• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Very 2008 vampire werewolf phase 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Child abuse, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Violence, Blood, Medical content, and Grief

lizziaha's review against another edition

4.0

oh I forgot that Isabel isn’t in this one til the very end :( 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Gun violence, Torture, Violence, Blood, Car accident, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Grief

Minor: Ableism, Animal death, Fatphobia, Racism, Kidnapping, and Classism