This summer I went camping in Yellowstone National Park which, as it turns out, was the perfect place for finishing up the Shiver series with Forever. Perfect because Yellowstone is the home of many, many animals including - you guessed it - wolves. Awesome. Not only are there wolves there, but I actually got to see one, a black wolf who was being followed by a coyote. He didn’t look like anyone I know, so I assume he was just a wolf. How disappointing.
This, of course, caused me to launch into a very long explanation of all three books while I was hiking with my husband. He politely nodded and “uh-huhhed.” He then warned me that there were people behind me - as though I would be embarrassed to have other people hear my story. Ha! Never be embarrassed to be a dork, Children.
Anyway, each night after I settled down in my sleeping bag and four layers of blankets, I powered up the Kindle and entered Minnesota. I was not disappointed.
All of the characters are here again - although maybe not in the form you’d expect. Grace is a wolf now, of course, but remains the character I’ve loved all along: practical, intelligent, a girl who loves to study. Sam, now no longer a wolf, is as intense and as devoted to Grace as ever. Isabel and Cole are also back and are each more likable than in the earlier books. Unfortunately, Isabel’s dad is also back and plotting a surprise for the wolves of Mercy Falls.
So what’s a boy to do when a vengeance-seeking dad is bent on killing his wolf-girlfriend?
I’d love to tell you - but I’m not going to. You’ll have to read it for yourself. Suffice it to say, Maggie Stiefvater is an excellent writer and knows how to finish up a series in an intelligent, and very satisfying way. Go her.
LAME FACTOR: Have you actually been reading my reviews? A zero for lameness, of course.
YOUR PARENTS WILL FREAK FACTOR: No they won’t.
BRAIN POWER: Maggie Stiefvater is an excellent writer, so you may actually learn something. School has started, after all.
