Review: Forever by Maggie Stiefvater

Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #3)
By Maggie Stiefvater

book rate: ★★★☆☆ (2.5/5)
series rate: ★★★☆☆ (2.8/5)

If you haven’t read the first two book in the series, be aware, this review contains spoilers of the last two books. If you want to know more about the previous books read my full review of Shiver and Linger.

From goodreads:

The thrilling conclusion to #1 bestselling Shiver trilogy from Maggie Stievater.

then.

When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their love transformed from curious distance to the intense closeness of shared lives.

now.

That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be hunted in one final, spectacular kill.

forever.

Sam would do anything for Grace. But can one boy and one love really change a hostile, predatory world? The past, the present, and the future will all collide in one pure moment - a moment of death or life, farewell or forever.

Review:

I'm going to be brief about this review since my opinion doesn't vary much than my opinion of Linger.

Forever, just like Linger, is written from four points of view, Sam, Grace, Cole and Isabel. I liked Cole in this book, his chapters were my favourites. He was funny and intelligent, the one who actually had something to do, he was trying hard to find the cure. However my opinion about Grace and Sam was the same, they were pathetic and only thought about one another most of the times instead of thinking about the real problem they had in hands. Isabel kind of acted like a bitch but, luckily she came to her senses at the right moment and saved the world.

This final book had more action than Linger, but I still found the book to be slow paced. There were too many chapters were nothing was happening, it was just Sam reflecting and writing songs, or Grace thinking, or Isabel being depressed. I found my self constantly losing focus, in one minute I was on a page and the other I was already on another page and I couldn't remember what I had read. 

One more thing I didn't like was the ending, the last chapter more specifically . I'm not going to tell you what happen because I don't want to spoil you, but if you read the book, you know what I'm talking about. I'm going to read Sinner someday just to see if the question I've been asking myself is answered, and also because I liked Cole and Isabel. 

All in all, a book I'd recommend only if you like books where nothing much happens but where there is a lot of thinking and reflections about life and all kind of things. 

Review: Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #2) by Maggie Stiefvater

Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #2)
By Maggie Stiefvater

book rate: ★★★☆☆ (2.5/5)

If you haven’t read the first book in the series, be aware, this review contains spoilers of book one, Shiver. If you want to know more about shiver here is my full review.

From goodreads:

In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.

This is book is told from four different perspectives, Sam, Grace, Isabel and Cole.  Cole is one of the New Wolves Beck brought before changing to wolf. It’s still too cold for the new wolves to start shifting but Cole is already human during most days so he’s trying to figure out why and how this wolf thing really works. I can’t decide if I like Cole or not, he’s obvious not a stable person, he just wants to be a wolf and lose himself but in the end he actually snaps out a little and starts acting like a normal person. Isabel was a character that intrigued me in Shiver and I was glad we could see the story thought her eyes. I felt like she was the only one trying to hold everything together. Sam’s chapters were the worse of the book, instead of facing the problems that he has to face, he only things about two things: thinking about this cure, and telling himself that he is cured and thinking of Grace and how much he misses her. Grace’s chapters are not that good as well. I appreciated the fact that she stood up for herself and told everything she thought to her parents about them, but other than that, she only thought about Sam or how much pain she was in. This leaves us with Isabel having to take action, worrying about Grace, taking care of Cole and make Sam wake up from his daze and take action before something bad happened. If it was not from Isabel this book would have sucked!

Needless to say I didn’t like this book. I didn’t like the characters, I felt like there was no personality to them, specially Sam and Grace. Nothing happened until the very end of the book. It was boring. Although I intend on reading the next book to find out what happens I think Shiver would have served better as a stand-a-lone. I was disappointed with Linger and I hope the next book is better. 

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (book discussion)

book rate: 4/5

Ever since Grace was attacked by wolves and miraculously survived she has been obsessed with them, especially a yellow-eyed wolf who has never stop watching her since that day.

When she meets a boy, Sam, with the same yellow eyes, she recognises him right away. They soon realise they can’t live without each other, but winter is coming and Sam has to fight the cold in order to stay human, or he may lose Grace, forever.

Overall, I really liked this book, I enjoyed reading it very much. The love story is so cute, and the background story is so imaginative and different.

Since this is the firs book, I didn’t feel very connected with the main characters, I liked them, but I didn’t love them, but I do believe I’ll come to like them more as I read the next books. In this one the characters were so focused on each other and the coming of winter that they didn’t show everything about their personality. I’m particularly looking forward to see how Isabel’s character will develop. In the begging of the book I thought “well, this is going to be the bitch of the story, and we have the same name, brilliant”, but in the end we start seeing glimpses of a better person, which I find intriguing. 

However, what I liked the most were the werewolves. There are no full moons or silver or the usual things we see. I’m not going to go on full detail about it, since it will spoil you. But even if you’re not a fan of werewolves, like me, you should definitely pick up this series anyway since this werewolves are different.

This is a great story, and and even better love story. If you are into fiction and YA romance you should read this book!