Book #130 of 2016: Sinner by Maggie Stiefvater (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #4) A weird and kind of unnecessary add-on to the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy. I’m generally a fan of supporting characters getting to tell their own stories – that’s what’s given us such classics as Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead or …
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Book Review: Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
Book #118 of 2016: Forever by Maggie Stiefvater (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #3) One thing I really appreciate about this book series, beyond its great character work and fairly original spin on werewolves, is how much the status quo changes from novel to novel. Structurally speaking, Forever is largely an inverse of the first …
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Book Review: Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
Book #98 of 2016: Linger by Maggie Stiefvater (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #2) This book was sadder than the first one in the Wolves of Mercy Falls series, but it also had less in the way of ridiculous teenage hormones, so that was a nice change. Plus I really appreciated how it dealt with …
Book Review: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Book #78 of 2016: Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (The Wolves of Mercy Falls #1) “Sexy teen werewolves” is usually not my genre of choice, but Maggie Stiefvater’s characters are so well-realized that I was hooked on this novel regardless. Even a character like Isabel Culpepper, who could easily have been just a mean-girl stereotype, gains …
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