I've recently read the teen book 'Shiver' by Maggie Stiefvater. The book first released in 2009, has a small fan following. Nothing the size of the 'Twilight-mania' just yet!
The story's about a 16/17 year old girl called Grace, growing up in a small American town called 'mercy falls'. Graces' house is backed onto the woodland area that surrounds most of the town. The woodland is filled with wolves, but they're 'special' wolves!
The story revolves around Graces fixation with the wolves and a certain one in particular with vivid yellow eyes.
The book is a strange but intense story about the fight for teenage love.
This book really caught me. It's not my usual read but i was grabbed by the style it was written. The book's separated into different view points. Also it's different in the way it doesn't really have an antagonist. The protagonists here are Grace and the wolf/boy, Sam. There is no real trouble apart from trying to save Sam from 'losing himself'
I've already had ideas of how to move this story into a teaser trailer, and will upload the storyboard in the next few days. I'm now looking into extending this piece. I'm trying to film a lot of things that most people would associate with 'werewolves' like the moon, and dark woodland areas. I've decided to do this as i can't get hold of a real, trained, wolf to be in the production!
