Shiver
General Audience:
Young Adult
Genre:
Call Number:
YA- Fiction
Features:
Normal sized, normal font, adequate white space, easy to read
Cover Notes :
Tree silhouettes encircling the title "shiver"... A rather eye-catching cover.
Blurb Notes:
Maggie Stiefvater's writing style is "musical, magical, and practically radiating romance... perfect for engaging sharp minds and poetic hearts."
Beginning, Middle, & End :
Beginning - The romance develops right at the beginning when the girl and wolf describe looking into each other's eyes.
Middle - Similar to the beginning - Grace and Sam (the werewolf) further discover each other
End - well wrapped up
Style :
serious, full of romance and discovery
Pacing :
Medium paced
Format :
Switches between two points of view
Characters :
Grace, Sam (the werewolf)
Setting :
Present day
Theme :
Romance, werewolves, fantasy
Focus :
Character driven
Read-a-Likes :
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater, Forever by Maggie Stiefvater, Fallen by Lauren Kate, The Dark Divine by Bree Despain, Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause
Hook :
She's a regular girl, he's a werewolf and can only be a human for a short time each year... Will the romance survive?
Brief Annotation :
Grace sees a familiar set of eyes in the woods behind her house... the eyes of a wolf... only, she doens't know that those eyes belong to Sam, a werewolf who can become a human for only a short time of the year.
Sam, had never dared to talk to Grace when he was human... But when he did, neither of them can deny their love for each other... But what does the future hold for them?
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