Forever (Shiver, Book 3)

By: Maggie Stiefvater

Narrated by: Jenna Lamia, Pierce Cravens, Dan Bittner, Emma Galvin, Maggie Stiefvater

In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. In Linger, they fought to be together. Now, in Forever, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder and harder to hold on to as death comes closing in.

Listen to the previous books, Shiver and Linger.©2011 Maggie Stiefvater (P)2011 Scholastic Audio

I loved this series!

I instantly fell in love with this book, and the woods, and Same and Graces love! I wish there was more too it, but it will be a series I remember forever!

Not as Good as I Hoped

I adored Shiver and Linger, the first two book Wolves of Mercy Falls series, and I’ve been looking forward to reading Forever for awhile. Only, I didn’t love Forever the way I did the previous two and I can’t exactly explain why. It might be because I tend to like the first few books in a series way more than I like the last one. That aside, Forever seemed to lack the magic, the je ne sais quoi, that had made me swoon over the first two.

So what was it that I didn’t like? Hmmm. It wasn’t the writing. No, Stiefvater’s prose were as eloquent as always and the tone continued to be distinctly bittersweet with a hint of melancholy. The characters were their usual selves. Sam was a poetic, loyal, and charming boyfriend while Grace remained cute, smart, and independent. Their roles were reversed this time and it was interesting to see the difference in their perspectives. Isabel and Cole were the same, fickle and snarky, yet at times redeemable. Nothing changed there. The overall story was good and intriguing. I honestly can’t think of any other way it could have gone.

Maybe I didn’t like the way the story told. It started off slow and then seemed to drag a little. I felt generally unhappy while reading it. If there were moments of happiness they were quickly ushered out to be replaced by serious, sad ones. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect everything in a book to be happy and perfect all the time but I missed having moments that made me smile or laugh. There were some of those moments, but they were rare and I can’t think of any off the top of my head. The ending also lacked luster and things didn’t feel wrapped up.

If you have read the first two books in the series, you definitely should read Forever. I recommend rereading parts or all of Linger before reading Forever. I wish that I had. I still gave Forever four stars because I still liked it. The overall story was good and as usual it was very well written. I love Maggie Stiefvater and it pains me to say anything negative about her stories but I was really hoping for a lot more.

Wish I knew this was a series lol

Whelp. I felt like I was missing info when I read this book and didn’t realize till half way through that I was. Either way this was a good story. I can’t speak for the other books in the series (obviously) but I can say I loved the narration of this particular audio! There were some slow parts in the middle and I almost didn’t finish, but I’m sure glad I did. The last hour of the book was in my opinion the best part. I’m sure if I had read from the beginning, I would have been more invested in the slower parts. Guess I’ll read in reverse!

Great!

Fantastic story with a sweet young adult romance! I wasn't as into the characters in this one, though. Sam was pretty weak. But I guess that was the point, he's weak without Grace.

I'm also pretty shocked that their love doesn't have more... hormonal urges, considering he's an 18 year old boy and a 17 year old girl. It was almost a pure, nearly chaste kind of love and that just didn't feel realistic to me at all since a huge part of romantic feelings and being IN love is craving the intimacy of sex and connecting with each other. Here, even sleeping in the same bed all the time UNSUPERVISED, they've basically done it TWICE in the entire series.

They were super sweet though and the plot fantastic. Cole even grew on me! Isabel still didn't, though.

Definitely a great series.

Still Great

Read this in High School with my Gf at the time. it was good mellow in terms of action but good none the less.