Grace is fascinated by the wolves in the woods behind her house; one yellow-eyed wolf in particular. Every winter, she watches him, but every summer, he disappears. Sam leads two lives. In winter, he stays in the frozen woods, with the protection of the pack. In summer, he has a few precious months to be human ...until the cold makes him shift back again. When Grace and Sam finally meet, they realize they can't bear to be apart. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human - or risk losing himself, and Grace, for ever.
My love of wolves and the author's other series, The Raven Cycle, were not enough to get me through this book and it's almost unheard of for me to leave a book unfinished. But the entire story was far too reminiscent of Twilight, complete with another girl with a strange fascination for a supernatural being that borders on self-harm.
I really don't understand how getting dragged into the woods by wolves as a child leads to falling in love with one of them, who just happens to be a werewolf, as a teenager. And when this teenager runs into the woods filled with armed hunters trying to kill these wolves, I simply rolled my eyes. Where are the stories with intelligent young heroines capable of thinking with their heads and not their obsessed hearts? Certainly not in this book.
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