When their story begins in Shiver (reviewed here) Grace is 17 and Sam is 18, but they have been in love for many years. Mutual, respectful, enduring love is completely attainable as long as you swear you won’t settle for less.” “Many, many readers have written me asking wistfully about the nature of Sam and Grace’s relationship, and I can assure you, that sort is absolutely real. Theirs was a love at first sight from when they were just kids, and there is no uncertainty, no misgivings, no rivals, just them. But most of all, this trilogy centers around the steadfast love between Sam and Grace, who, on the verge of adulthood, find their true natures through their love for one another. This is a very appealing trilogy (known collectively as “The Wolves of Mercy Falls”) that is truly more about love than anything else: the unquestioning love the boy Sam has for his adoptive father Beck and Beck’s fierce love for Sam, juxtaposed with the uneven and sporadic parental love experienced by the girl Grace, and how alone she has always felt because of it. I could relate to the difficulty of saying good-bye to some of the characters…. “It’s a little odd to be saying good-bye to a world I’ve lived in for almost four years…” I was successful in not crying all the way until the end of this book, in spite of quite a bit of provocation to do so, but I lost the fight when I read the “Author’s Note” after the last page, which begins:
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