Shiver

Stiefvater, M. (2009). Shiver. New York: Scholastic Press.

Grace was attacked by wolves when she was little and survived. The wolf with yellow eyes saved her. In the years that followed, her yellowed eyed savior would watch her from the woods. Grace was connected to the wolves in a way she couldn’t explain. Until one autumn when she met Sam, his yellow eyes undeniable. He was human when the weather was warm, but he had limited time. With the coming of winter and colder temperatures, his transformation to wolf was inevitable. Sam and Grace’s connection and affection for each other was instant, and their love for one another was like nothing either of them had experienced before. Why Grace had not become a werewolf herself after being bitten was a mystery, because no one had ever resisted the change before. It raised the question if a cure could be possible. This might be Sam’s last season as a human before he becomes wolf forever. After her classmate Jack had been bitten and turned, Grace and his sister Isabel realized that Grace had suffered a high fever following her wolf attack. Thinking that inducing illness with high fever could be the answer for Jack and Sam, they inject them with meningitis. Unfortunately their experiment didn’t work out for Jack, but it may have been the answer for Sam. Shiver is book one in the Shiver fantasy trilogy. Stiefvater created characters with true raw human emotion that find love despite existing in two different worlds. It is the perfect pairing of reality and fantasy.