Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf -- her wolf -- watches back. He feels deeply familiar to her, but she doesn't know why.
the heat.
Sam has lived two lives. As a wolf, he keeps the silent company of the girl he loves. And then, for a short time each year, he is human, never daring to talk to Grace . . . until now.
the shiver.
For Grace and Sam, love has always been kept at a distance. But once it's spoken, it cannot be denied. Sam must fight to stay human -- and Grace must fight to keep him -- even if it means taking on the scars of the past, the fragility of the present, and the impossibility of the future.
Cover: I love the trees on the cover. They're blue and it looks really pretty. I just re-looked at it, and noticed a wolf! That makes it even cooler! The color scheme is pretty cool, and I love the random red dot above the "i" (Is it actually a paint splatter? You know how much I love those!) For some reason, I just love it when the words are spelled in lower case, and the whole cover is!
Blurb: The blurb has really cool page-break-sort-of-things (The two word lines, all in lowercase.) I thought that was a neat thing to have on there. This blurb was iffy- I figured it would be like any other werewolf love story. I usually hate romance. I picked it up from my local library, anyway.
Inside Details: A cool feature underneath each chapter was the temperature. The temperature plays a massive part in this book, and I think that's a really cool, unique element this novel has. The chapter titles also tell you who's point of view it's told in. The amount of story told by each character is about the same -- one POV for one chapter, then it switches -- until close to the end. It's not too confusing.
Storyline: The book starts out with eleven-year-old Grace being attacked by a bunch of wolves. This immediately drew me in. Then, a yellow-eyed wolf, Sam, saves her. Grace is instantly obsessed with the wolves, and so is her friend, Olivia. Every summer, Grace is sad because she doesn't see her wolves. But, during the winter, the one that saved her, the one with yellow eyes, is always watching her. Six years pass with this going on and Grace goes into the bookshop where Sam works during the summer. He keeps his eyes downcast so she won't see his yellow eyes, the ones that match her wolf. Later that year, Sam shows up at Grace's house with a bleeding wound on his neck. Grace knows that he's a werewolf, and she is there with him throughout this ordeal. Grace and Sam fall in love and Sam takes her on a date to a candy shop. The lady behind the counter comments on how cute they look together, and when she asks Sam how long they've been going out, he says "Six years." I love that part, and I think it's so adorable that he counts the time when Grace didn't know about his human side as part of it. It gets colder and colder, and it gets harder for Sam to stay human. Eventually, Sam tells Grace that this is his last year as a human. He tells her that each year it takes an even warmer temperature to change. His time is up, but neither one of them wants to let go.
Setting: This story takes place in Mercy Falls, Minnesota. I've never been anywhere close to Minnesota, but somehow I can relate to the weather described.
Rating: This book is about love, friendship and beauty with a bit of paranormality. It combines them all into one awesome story. I give it a 4.5 out of 5.
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