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Sinner
by Maggie Stiefvater
It's easiest to describe Maggie Stiefvater's SINNER as a story about sharp-edged love. A story about the wolves who live in our heads and hearts roaming the sun-soaked streets of Los Angeles on two legs. It’s a song of summer and love and running from the fall.
Some of us know Cole St. Clair and Isabel Culpeper from Stiefvater’s previous trilogy of Shiver, Linger, and Forever. Cole and Isabel are two complicated people with an equally complicated relationship. But you don't need to know them to read SINNER. You'll meet them again, and watch their struggle to maintain that relationship when neither of them are easy people to love.
Yes, you will hear from Sam and Grace. You’ll meet new characters, too, and they will remind you of people you know or maybe make you wish that you knew people like them or possibly make you pleased you don't know anyone like them. None of them are perfect, but they’re all the more real for it.
You’ll also meet Los Angeles. Not Hollywood or what you can read in a guidebook. SINNER captures LA in tactile details and creates the intangible sense of being these people in that city. The hopeful and the hopeless; all their maniac highs and their desperate lows.
Beneath the jokes, and kissing, and music… this magnificent book is a story about addiction to people and places and things. It is about the struggle to love, because that is not easy for some of us. It’s terrifying and it hurts. But SINNER knows it’s worth it.
Read this book if you liked The Scorpio Races, The Raven Boys, The Shiver Trilogy, Eleanor & Park, The Beginning of Everything, or Warm Bodies.
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I received an ARC of this book from its Canadian publisher. And my bias is it's the best book I've read in 2014 and I want you to read it, too.
Some of us know Cole St. Clair and Isabel Culpeper from Stiefvater’s previous trilogy of Shiver, Linger, and Forever. Cole and Isabel are two complicated people with an equally complicated relationship. But you don't need to know them to read SINNER. You'll meet them again, and watch their struggle to maintain that relationship when neither of them are easy people to love.
Yes, you will hear from Sam and Grace. You’ll meet new characters, too, and they will remind you of people you know or maybe make you wish that you knew people like them or possibly make you pleased you don't know anyone like them. None of them are perfect, but they’re all the more real for it.
You’ll also meet Los Angeles. Not Hollywood or what you can read in a guidebook. SINNER captures LA in tactile details and creates the intangible sense of being these people in that city. The hopeful and the hopeless; all their maniac highs and their desperate lows.
Beneath the jokes, and kissing, and music… this magnificent book is a story about addiction to people and places and things. It is about the struggle to love, because that is not easy for some of us. It’s terrifying and it hurts. But SINNER knows it’s worth it.
Read this book if you liked The Scorpio Races, The Raven Boys, The Shiver Trilogy, Eleanor & Park, The Beginning of Everything, or Warm Bodies.
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I received an ARC of this book from its Canadian publisher. And my bias is it's the best book I've read in 2014 and I want you to read it, too.