After meeting Maggie Stiefvater in person at Houston’s recent Teen Book Con, and being reminded of how much I appreciate her brilliance and great spirit, I decided to give The Scorpio Races a try.
It is absolutely her best book yet.
It was refreshing to read a young adult book that does not involve a dystopian society, fairy tale creatures, or teens in impossibly adult situations. No, The Way We Fall by Megan Crewe is just about…a contagious, deadly disease.
Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver begs comparisons to Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series, mainly in that it centers around a teenage romance between a young woman and a storybook creature (in this case, a werewolf). Like Twilight, it’s also set in a small town, and clueless parents and adults facilitate these teens having much more independence than any real-life teens I know.
Beyond the obvious similarities, though, this book differs from Twilight in the most important ways.
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