Shiver 
 3.5 stars 
 This is just what I wanted right now: it's nothing earth-shattering, it didn't make me feel crazy emotion but I didn't want it to. Sometimes you just need a book that's sort of nice and cosy and...light? Is that the word? Some books are heavy - though they may be spectacular, they can drain you emotionally and then you need something a little fluffier and lighter to fill you back up. That's what I read this book for, and I think it gave me what I wanted. 
 Shiver is about Grace (human) and Sam (werewolf) and their teenage love story. Sure, this doesn't seem so original - and it kinda isn't - but one thing I liked was that there's no love triangle - or anything of the sort to take its place - Grace and Sam want to be together and they're happy being together and there's no doubts about that for them, they just go on cute dates and snuggle and it's cute and I liked that - so few books of this sort seem to have couples that actually get on most of the time. The book isn't all about them being loved up, of course and I felt the rest of the plot was kind of slow to get going - I definitely found the second half of the book more exciting. I also liked the way the whole werewolf thing worked - with the change being triggered by cold weather and the negatives of being this sort of werewolf being the main evil in the book, rather than just having an evil bad guy who's out to kill the heroes. It was a little different and I liked that. 
 To be honest, I didn't really think any of the characters were written with a massive amount of depth but I still liked them, and they didn't annoy me like I thought they might so that's always good. I liked that Grace isn't ungrateful and grabby or constantly complaining about how terrible her life is, as many authors write characters in her sort of situation. She was likeable, and so was Sam. 
 Something else I must mention, though it's always hard to in a review, is the ending. Not everything turned out as I predicted, which is nice, but there is one thing that could have gone the other way that I think could have very much changed the tone of the book, although maybe it would have just annoyed me and not worked at all for the book itself so who knows? Do I know what I'm talking about? No, I most certainly do not. 
 It was a pretty decent book. It wasn't crazy moving or meaningful or anything but it wasn't really trying to be and it was certainly an enjoyable read.