maggie stiefvater wolves of mercy falls series

Two new voices add to the story: Cole, the young man who chose to become a wolf, and Isabel Culpeper, who lost her brother Jack when she tried to stop him from becoming a wolf. I say “fairly,” because theirs is the type of relationship that is so complete there isn’t room for many other people. Take away the whole wolf aspect of the story, and you have a fairly healthy teenage relationship. They love each other, and are in love with each other, and are friends. I like their relationship they are so easy with each other and comfortable with each other.

Grace wonders, can she still go away to college? If Sam is linked forever to Mercy Falls and caring for the wolf pack, does she have to stay?

Sam stays Sam, and Cole stays Cole, and it’s only me who’s not firmly in my own skin.” Her parents are suddenly suspicious, looking at Sam as just a high school fling who is a distraction to school work. With the heat, the remaining wolves will soon be falling out of their wolf pelts and back into their human bodies. Grace has the love of her life, but something else is happening: “ But now it is spring. Culpeper sees them as animals who kill, who took his only son, and nothing will stop him from making sure there are no more wolves in Mercy Falls. To make things worse, Thomas Culpeper, who lost his son Jack to the wolves in Shiver, continues to hunt the wolves. Or does he? What is his responsibility to the wolves, to his adoptive father Beck, to the new wolves, Cole and Victor, who were just turned the prior fall? While free from becoming a wolf, is he now trapped in Mercy Falls? Sam is realizing for the first time he has a future. What makes someone transition into a wolf? Why do some have years before their wolf-selves become permanent? Why would someone voluntarily give up their humanity to become one? Why do some people who get bit live, why do some become wolves, why do some die? The Good: Stiefvater continues to slowly reveal the world of human-wolves. If only parental disapproval and caretaking of new wolves was their only problem.

Now she has to balance their dislike of him with her own growing love for Sam. Grace’s perfect life isn’t so perfect, because her distant and absent parents are acting quasi parent-like, at least when it comes to her love life and their suspicions of Sam.

Maggie stiefvater wolves of mercy falls series