Sparkle Project #6 - "Shiver" by Maggie Stiefvater

[ceilidh_ann]

How about a little werewolf action?

This came second in the poll after City of Bones (thanks for reading that review. It was interesting to hear from people who also liked the book. Feel free to disagree with me and tear my argument apart by the way!) and with the hype this book is getting on top of that gorgeous cover I couldn't help but be

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[seneska]

The whole falling-for-the-animal thing sounds pretty creepy. It's lucky he was a werewolf after all.

Are you telling me that someone finally got laid in one of these books? Thank god for that. I was beginning to worry that teenagers had gone through a complete transformation (no pun intended) since I was one.

Can you link to the reading democracy thing you mentioned please? It sounds like an interesting opinion piece.

[ceilidh_ann]

The reading democracy comment came from a reply I got on Bray's LJ. She liked my Stephen Fry icon. XD

Yuk, wolf loving! Everytime she called him 'my wolf' I cringed, it was too weird, even for this genre.

[merigirl]

great review as ever!

I read the book and I am agast that I missed the Leaking womb bit.. I was probably in shock from the horrible lyrics he kept singing.

the book started well, I loved the scene in the snow.. but then it turned so dull and lost the spark it stated out with.

god those songs were awful.

[ceilidh_ann]

Some of the writing's actually not bad, but god, she needed a plot. And character development. And well thought out mythology. And non creepy bestial relationships.

Thanks for reading.

[ribbon_scythe]

Haha, if I did half the stuff I read (and wrote) about when I was fourteen, I'd be pretty messed up and possibly in a polyamorous relationship with a vampire.

I considered reading that book, and then I decided not to. Thank you for telling me that I'm missing nothing but a pretty cover. Now my rule is going to be avoid the beautiful covers, they hide boring writing.

[ceilidh_ann]

I'd probably be some sort of murderer. I read a lot of crime books. XD

The marketing people behind all these awful books are very shrewd thinkers; they know exactly how to appeal to their target audiences. Sadly, marketability comes before quality.

[unusualdemoness]

# My love is like a maxi-pad / that's newly soaked in sorrow / your cramps of love don't make me sad / we'll get a change tomorrow. #

Bwahahaha. That's awesome. :D Why would anyone think it's okay to write a teenage boy thinking about leaky wombs? Just...why? *boggles*

This sounds like a really boring book. Even worse than Twilight in plot problems. At least there was an antagonist for a hundred pages or so in that (Oh god. I'm actually referencing Twilight as a better option. This is not good).

[ceilidh_ann]

If the reader hadn't quite twigged by that point that Stiefvater couldn't write a male POV to save herself, they would have got it by the womb comment.

It is very boring, I think that's why it took me so long to finish reading. Well, longer than I usually take for this project.

That happened with the book Hush, Hush for me. It was so atrocious I found myself defending Twilight on some level. It was scary. Thanks for reading.

[alicetheowl]

Weirdly, I heard about this author because she was knocking the Twilight franchise in her book trailers. It sounded interesting. Sounds like I was smart to not pick it up.

[ceilidh_ann]

I saw her Kraken video. She's actually pretty artistically talented. That talent just isn't in writing.

Very smart move. Thanks for reading the review though.