Recently there has been a whopping amount of snow gifted to our community from the skies.Since I am not allowed to drive when conditions are this miserable, I had to find a way to pass the time. I did something I haven't in a long while, which is picking up a book. It took me a few days to get into my book, Shiver by Maggie Steifvater. It was approximately 400 pages. The first half of the book was mundane and dry to me. The story follows a girl named Grace. She is a normal teenage girl with an extreme fascination with wolves. The story also follows a second character, a wolf named Sam. Everything in their town seems normal until Jack Culpepper, a resident of the town, is attacked by wolves and killed. The city officials decide the wolves must be killed. Grace does everything in her power to stop this. Things start to get back to normal when suddenly, Sam reveals himself to Grace as he explains that he can change between a man and a wolf. A certain event (spoiler) happens which turns the tables of the changing wolves. The tone throughout the book is sad, because Grace and her friends dwell on the negatives of life. One of the interesting qualities of the book is the fact that it switches between Grace's point of view and Sam's point of view. I would have liked some of the chapters to be written by someone else, like Isabel Culpepper, who is an antagonist. Out of ten stars, I would give the book a six. It came across as very average to me and I only became interested near the end. The author has written two sequels. I have not read them, and I do not see myself reading them anytime in the immediate future. I heard that the author was working on creating a movie based off of Shiver.I looked into it more and the author commented that movie production has been halted because directors and herself could not see eye-to-eye. I believe a different spin on the book would keep the story line more interesting for the first half of the book. Hopefully this review has helped you gain insight on this unique book.