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Differences between the book and the movie - supplemented -

I recently read a Fanpop article that gathered the most obvious differences between the book and the movie. https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/blood-and-chocolate/articles/30840/title/differences-between-book-film

• The general message of the book is that werewolves and humans cannot have stable romantic relationships because humans cannot love all of what a werewolf is; as a result, Vivian chooses her own kind by becoming Gabriel's wife. The movie states the exact opposite, as Vivian kills Gabriel and chooses Aiden over her pack.

• In the book, all characters are American and the story takes place in Maryland. In the film it takes place in Romania and some characters have English, French or Romanian accents. Vivian and Aiden are the only characters with American accents.

• In the novel, none of the wolves' eyes change to gold when they smell the scent of blood.

• Vivian's mother Esme is alive and her father dies in the novel; in the film both her parents are dead. In the book Vivian is an only child, but in the film it is shown that she had siblings, who were killed along with her parents.

• In the film Vivian blames herself for her family's death; she explains to Aiden that her paw prints were found by the enemy, leading them to her family. In the book, only her father dies and it was caused, albeit indirectly, by the Five.

• Aiden, Vivian, and the Five are all high school students in the book. In the film, Aiden appears to be older than Vivian, who is nineteen, and the Five appear to be in their late teens to early twenties.

• In the book, Astrid and Gabriel were never mates. Rafe is not their son nor is he Vivian's cousin. Astrid is not Vivian's aunt and is actually the main antagonist in the book, but in the movie she takes on the role of Esme, Vivan's mother in the book.

• Rafe and the rest of the Five romantically pursue Vivian in the novel, and she and Rafe had dated at some point before the story takes place. This is not mentioned in the film.

• Rafe and Astrid are lovers in the novel; in the film they are mother and son.

• In the film there is no Ordeal between the male loup-garoux, and no Ordeal between the female loup-garoux. Gabriel is the leader from the start, instead of participating in the Ordeal as he did in the book. In the film leadership of the pack is based on bloodline rather than triumph.

• In the beginning of the novel, a character named Axel - a friend of the Five and Vivian's former romantic interest - was mentioned several times. Axel does not appear in the film.

• In the novel, it was Axel, and not Rafe, who murdered a girl because she rejected him.

• Vivian has an Uncle Rudy, Esme's brother, in the novel. In the film, she has no uncle.

• Vivian works at a chocolate and sweets shop in the film; she has no such job in the book.

• In the novel, when the pack leader takes a mate, she is his mate for life unless another female loup-garoux challenges and defeats her. In the film, the leader takes a new mate every seven years.

• Vivian is presumably a gray and brown loup-garou in the book. However, in the film a white wolf was chosen to depict Vivian in her wolf-form.

• In the book, there is no prophecy.

• The book mentions an elderly female loup-garou, Aunt Persia, who cures every ailment the loup-garoux may have including Vivian's silver poisoning. In the film, she is not mentioned and an old pharmacist gives Vivian an antidote.

• In the book, Aiden gives Vivian a silver pentagram, which he later melts down into the bullets he shot Vivian and Rafe with. In the film, Aiden owns a pentagram necklace that he uses to kill Rafe.

• In the book, silver can only kill a loup-garou if it enters his blood stream. In the film, a loup-garou need only touch it for poisoning to occur.

• In the book, Vivian's parents had been the leaders of the pack before Gabriel, but the film never mentions this.

• When Vivian reveals her secret to Aiden in the book, he is terrified and wants nothing to do with her. In the film, Aiden initially feels that Vivian betrayed him and leaves her, but he reconciles with her after she saves him from the other loup-garoux.

• In the novel, the pack members shape-shift into their alternative forms. In the film, the transformation is much more spiritual, depicting Vivian and the others as humans who almost seem to ascend into a higher (or at least different) state of spiritual being, glowing mystically as they transform into wolves.

• In the book, Vivian enjoys changing into her wolf form, and does so frequently. In the film, she struggles to prevent the change and only does so when necessary to save Aiden from the hunt.

• Gabriel is twenty-four in the novel; in the film he is of indeterminate age, though clearly old enough to have fathered Rafe with Astrid.

• In the book Gabriel truly loves Vivian, but in the film he wants to marry her to fulfill the prophecy.

• In the film, Vivian shows a great amount of resistance to "Tradition" and Gabriel's laws, whereas in the book, Gabriel explains that he loves her because she cares so much for her pack.

• In the book Aiden and Vivian break up at the end, and Vivian falls in love with Gabriel and agrees to become his mate. In the film, however, Gabriel is killed by Vivian and she leaves the pack with Aiden.

• In the film, Aiden's last name is Galvin, while in the book, it is Teague.

• In the film the pack participate in special hunts, which take place in a forest. The prey is human, usually one who has done wrong to the pack, and is told that he must run through the forest in order to win his life back - if he passes the river in the forest then he can survive, if he is caught by a loup-garoux then he is killed by it. In the novel, however, there is no such practice since Gabriel does not advocate the killing of humans.

The other differences have been collected by me, let's make it welcome! (Repetitions may occur)

• In the novel, a leaderless, disarrayed pack tries to choose a new leader while Vivian is dating a human boy. When Vivian finally breaks up with Aiden, she realizes that Gabriel is the one she really needs, so by the end of the story, the two will be the leaders holding the pack together. By the end of the film, the pack (and the Five) are falling apart, in part because of Vivian and Aiden's relationship.

• In the film, Gabriel (and most of the pack) is the hurdle, and Astrid shows empathy by understanding Vivian’s point of view; while in the book, the supervillain is Astrid who tries to put Vivian out of the way by manipulating Rafe, and Vivian was saved by Gabriel. He then kills Astrid for endangering the pack.

• Rafe is killed by a silver necklace around the middle of the film; however, he dies in one of the last chapters of the novel where Aiden shoots him with a silver bullet.

• Since Vivian, Rafe and the other members of the Five are all high school students in the book, much more detailed information is available about them, from their family backgrounds to how they relate to each other. Finn and Willem are originally twins, and Gregor is their cousin. The twins' and Gregor’s father are brothers called Rolf and Raul Wagner. In the book, Gregor is blonde and is the tallest - in the movie, Ulf’s character has a similar look, who, in the book, is Astrid’s son and has the same red hair as her.

• Vivian has blonde hair in the film, but in the book her hair color is described as tawny which is a light yellowish-brown color. Rafe is seen in the movie with chin/shoulder-length golden brown hair, while all that is known in the book is that he has "long brown hair." Aiden is originally a teenaged gothic-hippie poet boy with shoulder-length dark brown hair and dark, dreamy eyes, but in the film version he has a typical “starving artist” look with shorter hair and blue eyes.

• Of the five boys in the book, Rafe is the only anti-hero, but the others are on Vivian’s side, and their friendship will remain unchanged by the end of the story. In the movie they seem to turn against Vivian or hinder her from achieving her goals.

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