Books and beyond

Maggie Stiefvater will be at the Colorado Teen Literature Conference March 31, 2012.  Among other titles, she is the author of the trilogy about the werewolves of Mercy Falls.  This trilogy has plenty of adventure along with a love story that just won’t quit! In the first book, Shiver, a teenage girl, Grace, is intrigued with a wolf with yellow eyes. As she and Sam meet and fall in love, the reader is hoping they will be able to have some sort of time together. In Linger, the second book, will Sam be cured? Will the reader be rewarded with the idea that Sam and Grace will be able to have a life together as humans?  Grace was bitten by a werewolf as a child. Though she has survived until her teenage years as a human, will that change? In the third book, Forever, Grace and Sam still struggle to have time together but a more important question looms. Will the pack survive? Can Grace and Sam find a workable solution?

Besides enjoying the story about the werewolves of Mercy Falls, I also really enjoy the design of these books. The covers and use of color are aesthetically appealing to me. I like that the color of the print inside each book corresponds to the color of the cover as well.

If you want to read something entirely different and new by Maggie Stiefvater, try her book The Scorpio Races that came out recently.