Theme Of True Love In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver

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Young adults will laugh and become speechless at this fight against nature for true love in Maggie Stiefvater’s Shiver. Shiver is a fictional book with a supernatural twist. The main character, Grace, is an excellent daughter and student until a boy named Sam gets shot in the neck and arrives on her front porch. Grace treats his wound and Sam tells her that he is a werewolf who transitions from a human when it’s warm in the summer and to a wolf in winter when it is cold. Soon, Sam and Grace fall in love and together they fight to maintain Sam’s human form for as long as possible as winter draws closer. The theme in this story is to fight for what you believe in. The theme is well developed because the main conflict in the story is trying to

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