Shiver, by Maggie Steifvater

Shiver, by Maggie Stiefvater
Young Adult, 2009

In a sentence? This is a similar plot to Twilight and Hush Hush - girl meets boy who is not exactly human and they fall into (very thwarted) love.
Raspberry: Ok, so Twilight was better written than Hush Hush, but I liked the plot of Hush Hush better. Shiver is a whole other bag of beans, because I felt like both the writing and the plot was better than both Twilight and Hush Hush. I know, I know, I can hear you yelling words at your screen like 'blasphemy!' and running over to 'unfollow' me. But I just liked Shiver best. It seemed the most realistic of the three books, and the ending - oh MAN was that pure sweetness that last paragraph. The whole werewolf thing made sense as well, nothing too unrealistic or too much fantasy to make you go 'what?!' - it just made sense.
I will say that she had a line where she said her mom wasn't an apron-wearing Betty Crocker-making mom, so she wasn't typical. I don't know about you guys, but I've found that that's actually abnormal. Most moms work these days, and Steifvater isn't the first to make that blunder. I mean really, when is the last time one of your parents (or you) made a homemade cake?
Light swearing, the only real flag is sex in this one. It's really light, and the kissing scenes are much more firey than this, so it wasn't offensive. I just personally feel that teenagers don't need any justification in their literature to go out and do that when they're that young.
Grade: B