In “Forever,” the latest wolf attack prompts a more formal hunt that raises the stakes. That attitude only complicates his attraction to Isabel, the standoffish daughter of a high-powered attorney who lost his son to a wolf and went on a vengeful shooting spree. “Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it,” he says. Then there’s Cole, struggling to keep his suicidal feelings in check. Sam, too, needs to figure out how to secure their budding love while also confronting parental issues, namely the werewolf who saved Sam from abusive parents only to condemn him to a life of werewolfism. The overarching scenario may be apocryphal, but it lends even more realism to uncomfortable emotions as Grace not only wrestles with negligent, disapproving parents but also attempts to figure out how to maintain her relationship with Sam when she can’t predict which days she’ll be canine. There are a lot of loose ends to tie in this wrap-up to the enormously popular “Shiver” trilogy - an intelligent paranormal romance that surreptiously folds in serious adolescent issues, including teens’ relationships with their parents, suicidal ideation, morphing bodies and young love. My body was remapping itself, charting new courses, planning new bones while it crushed the others to dust,” one of the main characters says when morphing from human to wolf.
“For one second, one part of a second, one fraction of a breath, pain wiped all of my thoughts away from me. Stiefvater’s descriptions are, as usual, captivating. In the two months Grace has spent in Boundary Wood, Sam has become a suspect in her disappearance, and his friend Cole has been experimenting with hypodermic concoctions to transform between wolf and human at will.
As “Forever” begins, Grace is buck-naked in the forest, desperate for clothes and searching for a phone to call the boy with the heart - and eyes - of gold: Sam. Her victim isn’t Grace, though, Grace, too, has been prowling the forest on all fours since fleeing the hospital after her first human-to-wolf “shift.” Attacked by wolves years earlier, she finally succumbed to the toxin that replaced her blond locks with dark fur, her perfect teeth with sharp incisors.
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