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SHIVER, LINGER, FOREVER, SPOILER

October 23rd, 2012  
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This is the video where I totally spoil the end of FOREVER and also have a rather large rant about girls.

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    Gwyneth
    October 23, 2012 at 4:59 pm

    I totally agree, and no, i don’t hate you now ;)

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    Vickie
    October 23, 2012 at 6:26 pm

    Yes that was a long rant and I agree on the 18 part and marriage and children but, I WANT ANOTHER BOOK!!! They were so good and I rather it have a happy ending without a cliff hanger because now all I do in English or History or Science is think about the ending of Forever and what will happen next! Please that would be an AWESOME present if you said yes :)
    ;) :) :D ;D XD :P

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      Maggie Stiefvater
      October 24, 2012 at 7:39 am

      I’m really glad you loved them. But . . . there won’t be another book. I would rather have you daydreaming in English and History and Science about what happened next!

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        Vickie
        October 24, 2012 at 6:08 pm

        thats sad … but thanks anyway for writing the books! I think me and my friend almost cried when we saw the april fools joke of a book, litter!! :)

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        XxkillerbeeXx
        October 30, 2012 at 5:12 pm

        Although I LOVE the Shiver trilogy (probably more than whats considered healthy) I would have to admit that its probably best to be left wanting more. Being in love with a story that sucked you in and stayed with you long after reading, leaving you wondering what if… Instead of the writer dragging the story on, book after book and sucking the magic out of it. There is such a thing as having too much of a good thing.

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        zoey
        November 13, 2012 at 9:04 pm

        i do that all the time… please make a movie over them i would love to watch that it would be a big hit! thanks i read three of those books in three days im a reader! my friends hate me for it(not really)….thanks for writing those books havent read any more of your books though telll me what they are about

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        Phalyn
        February 10, 2013 at 10:33 pm

        Haha yah my teacher yell at me for that:) but I can’t help myself!

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        Ysabela
        March 4, 2013 at 9:50 am

        Plz write another book I love them soooooo much and my mom says if I don’t stop daydreaming in class that I’m never going to read another book unless its for my homework I can’t really stop dreaming about them and I already have the first three chapters dreamed up

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        wolflove
        March 17, 2013 at 5:25 pm

        Would there be a movie cause I heard they are going to make one. By the way I love your books they make me think I am in another world.

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        Audrey
        May 4, 2013 at 9:53 am

        Please please please please make another

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    V
    October 24, 2012 at 12:24 am

    I feel some closure for the series. I agree with the 18 thing and I like how the book has an open ending

  4. Jeska
    October 24, 2012 at 2:48 am

    Amen, sister!

    As a 31-year-old who had my first kiddo just this spring, I have to say… being married and having a baby definitely makes me incredibly happy… but I’ve done a lot of other things between 18 and 31 that also made (and still make) me incredibly happy. But some of the things that make me happy now would not have made me happy then.

    18 probably seems really old and mature to a 10 or 13-year-old. But I’m pretty certain I wasn’t old enough or mature enough to appreciate being a mom and a wife. That would not really have been a happy ending. What you said. :)

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    Heidi
    October 24, 2012 at 4:55 am

    You should have your own sitcom. You’re smart, hilarious… and a good role model! Well said, sister!
    (oh, and I’m 27, just in case you’re taking stats here)

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    Henna
    October 24, 2012 at 8:45 am

    Couldn’t have been said better.
    I was 13 when i read ‘Forever’ last year, and had been reading and loving this series since ‘Shiver’ first came out. The ending to me was perfect, because all through these books even when everything seemed like it was falling apart, there was always a sense of hope. Hope for a cure, hope for love, hope.
    And that’s how this series ended, with hope.
    And all I can say now is, seriously, how could there be an ending any better than that?

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    lb
    October 24, 2012 at 11:30 am

    Thank you! Thank you! YES! I loved the ending and felt it was happy!

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    Arianna
    October 24, 2012 at 11:32 am

    And thats the truth

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    Marla
    October 24, 2012 at 11:55 am

    I’m a freshman in college, so I’m right at the age these girls are imagining Grace’s happy ending. I read the series in high school (and really enjoyed the ending), and I agree. Especially with the babies part. I’m eager to do other things before I’ll be ready for that!
    I swear, with how close your books and blogs and videos hit home to me, it’s a dream of mine to sit down and have a coffee with you, Maggie.

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    Jazzy
    October 24, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    I’m a 18 year old high school senior, i argee with you. Happy endings can just be happy endings of the day, happy endings can be goals you achived in a week or month. Ive thought of my future alot, i know they include my partner an their dream for kids, but i also know they include me being in college. When i was 13 i thought of it like im guessing alot of 11-13 year olds, having a husband an kids. As i grew older i realized its not JUST about that though, i realized theres other things that i could make happen before that.
    Ive read nearly all your books and have fell in love with all of them.

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    anna
    October 25, 2012 at 3:57 pm

    those damn twilight books have the whole teen/pre-teen population (female population) thinking that they should do exactly what bella did. i hate myself for having read them and thank whatever higher power there might be for maggie stiefvater’s books (but not her last name, i cant spell or say her last name)

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    Amy
    October 27, 2012 at 2:06 pm

    I like you more, now. (not still.) This is what bothered me most about those other (vampire) werewolf books. Married with baby at 18 might be right for some people, but it should not be portrayed as a happy ending. Babies are the beginning and not always happy (says the mom of two). Thank you for thinking bigger and for encouraging young girls to think big, too!

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    Kärt
    October 27, 2012 at 3:27 pm

    Hey!
    I read all three books in 2 days. I LOVE them. You write so… poetically? (I’m so sorry if my english is bad, i’m form Estonia – it’s in northern Europe). Your books have really many fans here in Estonia, we all adore your work. Good luck. And I look forward to read your second trilogy (i’m currently waiting for translation, i hope they translate it :) )

    Oh, and I’m 22, if someone cares, but I must say, my mum really loves those books too :)

    Thank you so much for making those two days so beautiful!

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    Mollie
    October 27, 2012 at 3:32 pm

    Can I just tell you how amazing you write? I’ve re-read the shiver triolgy about 6 times, and I still find every paragraph loaded with analogies and imagery I wouldn’t dream of creating. I plan to write a hand written letter to you thanking you for creating my favorite books and I would absolutely love a response!!

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    Calli
    October 27, 2012 at 7:33 pm

    My friends and I really want to make a movie out of shiver, just for fun (and maybe extra credit in film class) and we aren’t thinking about publishing it or anything, but I thought it would be a good idea if we got permission first… (we will include the pompom hat)

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    Amzy
    October 29, 2012 at 1:21 pm

    I love this series and I’m 12 , And I actually like the ending it creates more suspense and it’s different . And No Grace should definitely not be having kids at 18 that is just encouraging girls to have babies at a young age , the ending is better like this!

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    Rebecca
    October 30, 2012 at 3:05 pm

    I just finished your book Shiver and i absolutely LOVED it! I am now reading Linger and already ordered all three books on Amazon. But there is one question i am DYING to get an answer for…. is Shiver going to be made into a movie?!?!

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    Anonymous
    November 1, 2012 at 9:32 pm

    Hi! I absolutely LOVED the books, I am absolutely addicted. I will read them over until the day I die. By any chance do you know if anyone will be directing movies for the series?

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    theresa
    November 9, 2012 at 11:59 am

    Need a book four.

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    Annika Serket
    November 13, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    I am a twelve-year-old. I love your books. AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF ENDLESS POSSIBILITY, ESPECIALLY WITH RED COFFEE POTS. So please, don’t generalize like that. Some of us in that age range are MATURE INDIVIDUALS who understand that. I still love you.

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    Victoria
    November 25, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    I think that the ending of Forever is a beautiful ending; its rich and powerful, and I love the subtlety of Sam just holding his hand out – no words. I also think that it is amazingly hopeful. Its not the kind of hope where you’re drowning, and you think ‘someone might come and miraculously pull me out of the water.’ Its the kind of hope where you wake up in the morning, and think ‘wow, that’s a beautiful sunrise, and I can do absolutely anything with my day, its completely open and new and fresh – just beginning, right now.’ And you hope that its going to be amazing, and you know it is, but you don’t know how, and its a bit scary. Very important difference (to me anyway!) Phew! Hope that makes sense to people outside my brain….

    Most importantly, its lovely.

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    Victoria
    November 25, 2012 at 4:44 pm

    Oh, don’t hate you either!

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    Anonymous
    December 4, 2012 at 8:22 pm

    I Love all your books more than any other book ive read If you have read the Hunger Games it is a 9 3/4 and yours is an 11!!!

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    Laura
    December 5, 2012 at 11:12 am

    When I finished Always I began to cry a lot hahaha I really love them !! And I want to ask you if shiver trylogy will have movies, cause I’d like to watch them :) x

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    olivia
    December 27, 2012 at 11:38 am

    i loved your books so much! they are the best books that I’ve read in my entire life!
    Are you making movies about the books because I’ve seen trailers on the movie so is it going to be a movie? that would be so awesome. what’s the age limit to being able to watch it though?

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    Gabby
    January 2, 2013 at 10:39 pm

    I just got done reading the entire series over my Christmas holiday of two weeks. At the end of Forever when Sam grabs Grace’s hand, is that a proposal? Can someone please clarify this. (: Thank you.

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    Jess
    January 5, 2013 at 11:50 pm

    Thank You! I had to show this to my friend today, because she didn’t understand. I’m not good with words so this helped explain.

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    CAREY
    January 6, 2013 at 11:28 pm

    Honestly, it felt like it just left me hanging. I NEED ANNSWWEEERRSSS! COLE WILL GET WITH ISABEL, RIGHT?! You almost got me crying when Cole was shot, and i nearly hated you for that, because WHY DO AUTHORS LOVE TO KILL THE BEST CHARACTERS?!!!

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    Freya
    January 10, 2013 at 12:52 pm

    I loved the ending of the Shiver trilogy, it just reflected the entire book. Love, hope and possibilities. Beautiful. I completely agree that it was the perfect ending for Grace and Sam because it showed how there love is strong enough not to need guarantees. Thanks for being such an amazing author :)

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    Carolina
    January 11, 2013 at 1:16 pm

    I’ve just finished the book. The ending was perfect!

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    Rose
    January 15, 2013 at 10:49 pm

    Is there going to be a movie!? I’m about to die with all the cliff hangers!?

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    Rose
    January 15, 2013 at 10:53 pm

    Also, Maggie, I am writing a novel that includes lots of inspiration from you, James Patterson, alyson Noel and several other authors who always leave cliff hangers. Do you think I should have I cliff hanger?

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    Amanda
    January 30, 2013 at 7:00 pm

    Oh my God. Shiver was perfect, and when I say it, I mean it. We started reading the book in my reading class at school about a week ago and I literally just couldn’t stop reading. My friends teased me saying how absorbed I get into books as great as yours, seriously they’ve got a point, I carried Shiver EVERYWHERE :) Can’t wait to read Linger <3
    Much Love from a New Fan ^-^

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      minnie
      February 3, 2013 at 3:23 pm

      linger is a GREAT book i’ve read the entire series i cant WAIT to read litter that was the 2nd best series i’ve ever read!!!! you should read hush hush by becca fitzpatrick :D

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    minnie
    February 3, 2013 at 3:20 pm

    thanks to you maggie i have gotten the inspiration to write books :)

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    Taylor Perry
    February 4, 2013 at 9:34 pm

    Your amazing and I adore your books.. The books take more of a scientific or natural approach to the whole shape shifting. It’s easier to connect. Also I’m a huge poetry fan and I also have been playing guitar for 9 years, so of course I love Sam! <3 I have only reread the books about 10 times or so.. haha I made my whole family read them! :)

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    Dahna
    February 26, 2013 at 4:59 am

    I really enjoyed your books! My friend has read more than the shiver series and is really obsessed with your books! You are a great author

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    DaShae
    March 3, 2013 at 9:16 pm

    Yeah. I agree. Im going to be 17 in a couple of months and I’m sooooooooo not ready for any of the marriage and kids thing. Lol. I would be terrified. You made a good point. And i love your books they are really really good. I just wish we could get some of the story of Sam and Grace’s future. That would be awesome. Im obsessing over the cliff hanger. But i just wanna say your books are AWESOME!

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    H
    March 15, 2013 at 1:39 pm

    I just got done reading forever. You are such an amazing author! You should write another book because I really want to know what happens to Grace, Sam, Cole, and Isabel! I know I wouldn’t be the only one reading it! :)

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    Person
    March 15, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    I want to know what happens to Cole and Isabel!!!! New book? (;

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    Casey
    March 31, 2013 at 4:20 pm

    Im a teen and My librarien at my school told me to read your books and when i found out it ha werewolves i thought oh great another twilight! I just finished the hunger games trilogy at the time and its still my favorite book series but when i read shiver it was so good!! I love how the characters POV change with the chapters. I really hope someday it will be a movie because its an amazing trilogy and i would love to see it. I have to say i love cole and isabel though. I love how cole acts and how cocky he is but not at the same time. The books were so amazing and i really hope someday soon they will be movies.

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    doesn't matter
    April 3, 2013 at 8:56 pm

    I agree with u about having a kid at 18 is not the best life choice and I am 13 and always think that when books end of with the main character having a child is never the right thing to do cause now that person who probably could have had a child later on in life now just got part of their childhood taken away and its not really fair to the mother or the child. :-)

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    jaydengirl
    April 5, 2013 at 6:41 pm

    Hi Maggie I just wanted to say I think u left it off to soon. I love books that have a happy complete ending and I thought that u could have did more for the ending like an extra chapter with them in the future to explain what happens to all them.

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    Melody Feng
    April 23, 2013 at 8:04 am

    Your books are the best. EVER. My friends are already used to seeing me fangirling about your books, especially when I imagine how hot Sam and Cole is (ahaha!) You are seriously the best and the hipper runner of the universe. These amazing books of yours made me laugh and cry, and I won’t forget how amazing they are. You are truly the best and never forget you got some real fans over here.

    We-the-hippie-Maggie-fans!
    Melody <3

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    Brandon
    May 7, 2013 at 6:52 pm

    It seems to me that girls 10-13 don’t understand the hardships in life and the goals that some people strive for. while I’m saying this I should note I’m only 16 and I haven’t had as long and knowledgable life like you (not saying your old) but I have just begun with my career in the trades . I still know that I’m not going to have kids until later in my life mostly because it adds stress and I already have enough and I’m not even out of highschool. But on another note this trilogy was FANTASTIC I loved reading and this book was one of the best I have ever read and you are a great author. I would like to say OMG MAKE ANOTHER BOOK but after reading forever again I have to say that this is a great ending to an amazing book. On another note I would like to know what a lot of comments are saying here: is there going to be a movie, and will the movie be as good as the book. Once again it was an amazing trilogy and I look forward to reading your other books and maybe any newer ones of yours and if you haven’t realized this by now you are one of my favorite authors. With that in mind these books actually touched me emotionally and me laugh and cry. PS, My personal opinion is when an author achives this with a book they truly are a great writer

  45. avatar
    Lamidri
    May 11, 2013 at 6:13 am

    Do you think that the Shiver trilogy will one day become films, because I love them sooooooo much!! And they would be amazing in film … xx :-)

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    Anonymous
    May 11, 2013 at 9:25 am

    There has to be another book in the end there is to many questions

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    Maddy
    May 12, 2013 at 11:51 am

    Is there going to be a movie because that is a huge rumor! I would Love it if it were true!

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Maggie Stiefvater
Hi, I'm Maggie Stiefvater

Professional novelist by day and artist by night. I live an eccentric life in the middle of nowhere, Virginia with my charmingly straight-laced husband, two kids, and neurotic dogs. I'm the author of the Books of Faerie (LAMENT and BALLAD); the bestselling SHIVER trilogy (SHIVER, LINGER, FOREVER), and THE SCORPIO RACES.

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