Shiver
- ISBN13: 9780545123266
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf–her wolf–is a chilling presence she can’t seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again. Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. I… More >>
5 Comments »
Leave a Comment
BreakingDawnFAN said :
March 14, 2010 at 2:42 pm
It’s obvious I’m a huge Twilight fan and I have reason for it. And I wanted to love this book and I was till the middle chapters and then things weren’t getting anywhere and the characters other than the main two were just flat and boring. The werewolf background story was also boring and it just didn’t intrigue me.
Yes Twilight wasn’t the best written book but your looking at an author who’s only experience was reading. For me the Twilight books are that good were the writing doesn’t affect the story which is powerful and the reason why it has millions of followers. The passion and the way it makes you feel like your in another world but seems to make you feel like your still part of this world is BEAUTIFUL. So for me I resent the fact that people always compare Twilight to everything. It’s beautiful piece of art that will be sticking around for a while like it or not. And that’s ok if you don’t like them your entitled to your opinion like I am. And for this series I will probably read the next book to this series because I want to see if things get more interesting and that we another side to the other characters other than just talking but we’ll see.
Rating: 1 / 5
J. Martinez said :
March 14, 2010 at 4:43 pm
Not original. Concept was “stolen” from the twilight series, except reverse roles (sub Jacob for Edward). Another book cashing in on the now “vampires & werewolves” success meyer created.
Rating: 1 / 5
Yolanda S. Bean said :
March 14, 2010 at 4:48 pm
I didn’t really like this book at all. I thought that the initial premise held promise – trying to re-write _Twilight_ with werewolves… but the changes made to the traditional werewolf myth fell flat. There was a scene with dogs that was utterly stupid – and it was obvious that this book was not researched enough. And the ending was just completely lame. There are MUCH better werewolf stories out there, for both teens and adults. I certainly would not recommend this book to anyone, particularly not teens.
Rating: 1 / 5
Charles S. Holzheimer said :
March 14, 2010 at 5:06 pm
The premise for this novel is probably the best part of the book itself. A young girl is rescued as she lay dying while under attack from a pack of wolves. One wolf defends her and ends up watching her from afar for several years. He visits her in human and wolf form numerous times.
It turns out that he is cursed with Lycanthropy and spends the warm months as a man and the cold months as a wolf. Love burgeons and efforts to bring the couple together begin.
The characters are shallow and several of the characters bear the same names as their counterparts in the Twilight series additionally leading to the perception that this is a thinly veiled attempt to cash in on the popularity of the Vampire/Human Twilight/Buffy craze. Being that there is an on-going underground (almost literally) competition between Vampires and Lycanthropes, changing the names (but only a very few of them) and trying to sell the story as independent is a huge rip-off!
Even if it were a rip-off, if it were a good story or at least had a decent ending, there would be some redeeming reason to give a better rating. However, there is nothing here to recommend this terribly bad story. Even the ripped off part of the story is poorly written!
Avoid, avoid, avoid!!
Rating: 1 / 5
Ms. Emma L. Anlezark said :
March 14, 2010 at 6:39 pm
I thought this book lacked something.
It is definetly for the young teenagers.
I wouldnt reccommend reading it if your over 17
Rating: 2 / 5