Published: July 3rd 2014, Scholastic
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance
Pages: 386
4 STARS
The Plot:
"found.
Cole St. Clair has come to California for one reason: to get Isabel Culpeper back. She fled from his damaged, drained life, and damaged and drained it even more. He doesn't just want her. He needs her.
lost.
Isabel is trying to build herself a life in Los Angeles. It's not really working. She can play the game as well as all the other fakes...but what's the point? What is there to win?
sinner.
Cole and Isabel share a past that never seemed to have a future. They have the power to save each other and the power to tear each other apart. The only thing for certain is that they cannot let go." - Goodreads
Review:
I fell in love with Maggie Stiefvater's writing style the moment I picked up Shiver. She has a unique way of making everything sound so unbelievably lyrical, and Sinner is no different. As soon as I started the first page I knew it was going to be memorable.
The book was so different from the Shiver trilogy, which is only fitting considering Shiver was more Sam and Grace's story, and Sinner follows Isabel and Cole who are their polar opposites.
The story takes place in L.A, where Isabel appears perfectly at home. She's bossy, high-maintenance and at times a complete bitch, not to mention her sky high heels and perfectly manicured nails never looked at home in Minnesota anyway.
Cole on the other hand, is a troubled recovering drug addict/rock star who is thrust back into the limelight when he follows Isabel to L.A, when she is sent to live with her mother at the end of Forever. I absolutely loved the way Cole was written, his inner thoughts are described in such vivid detail that you can really grasp what it feels like to be in his head. To feel like no matter what you do, or how much you try to change, to everyone else you're still going to be that messed up kid who fell down on stage and never got back up.
Another thing I liked was the way she described the shift for Cole as a drug. Those of you who remember The Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy will remember that Cole had found a way to chemically generate the shift. It makes you realise that he still hasn't completely given up on his addict lifestyle and he's still clinging onto something from his old life by shifting. Whenever he shoots up, for a few minutes he gets to escape from his own body and mind and gets to become the wolf. Everything that matters fades away and he just sees the world for what it truly is, a collection of images.
I believe the book is more about Cole growing and evolving to realise he doesn't need the shift and he doesn't need another high to try and distract him from being himself. This realisation is helped by Isabel, who is equally as damaged as Cole. She's lost people and grew up with a completely messed up family, which is enough to mess with anyone's head.
I wouldn't describe Sinner as a love story, it's more a tale of two broken people trying to find a way to survive in this world, and not go completely insane in the process. That's not to say there isn't your fair share of romance, which is evidently accompanied by a considerable amount of bust ups and make ups.
I absolutely loved Sinner, it's thought-provoking, moving and above everything extremely memorable.
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