Shiver

I have just started to read Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater. It is a love story about a girl named Grace and a boy named Sam. The strange thing about this love story is that the boy Sam is or was a wolf, who can change into a human once a year at summertime. this love story started as Sam as a wolf, watching Grace, who is watching the wolfs in the forest which is behind her house. Ever since then grace always felt a connection between her and the yellowed eye wolf. Grace never knew this but when grace was eight years old she was attacked by wolfs, when Sam as a human saved her, which made him turn into a wolf.

When i first read the blurb of this book i immediately thought of beauty and the beast which only similar tie is that it is a love story with a wolf. One question that i thought of was that when the authors of both these stories wrote this did they have any of the same thoughts or idea. Did the author of shiver base her story on the beauty and the beast?

I think there is a connection between the beauty and the beast and shiver because they have a same idea that love can happen everywhere, where you least expected it to be.