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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
So I liked this one better than the first but not by much. Sam was still kinda mopey and annoying. For 2 teens soooooooo in love they suck at communication. Just talk to each other and half the problems will be solved.
Cole was an interesting character. I'm still on the fence with him but by the end of the book I was more convinced. Though his band name was annoying. I know it was a play on narcotics but my brain kept reading it wrong.
Isabel was absolutely annoying. Yeah her brother is dead dead but could have been a little nicer to everyone around her. Like yeah Grace is dying but also let her and sam enjoy the recording and time together. Isabel comes with all this fire and drama but no help or answers. And I sure hope she doesnt like Sam. That's just going to bring way too much unnecessary drama to the next book. The hints to it were just dropped in throughout this book and didnt add to anything. Let her pine for Cole and call it a day.
While we are talking about cole and isabel I'm not found of how the author handles sex in her books. It is not this big sacred thing that everyone needs to save. Virginity is some stupid made up construct anyways. If someone wants to "throw" it away let them. There is nothing wrong with having sex because you're angry or hurt or any reason really. Don't make it sound like she will regret her choice. Maybe she will but then again maybe she wont. And then the whole punishing sam and grace because thats what her parents think is happening is just wrong too. Again there is nothing wrong with it. As long as protection and consent is used. That's what the author she focus on. Protection and consent rather than weird moral high ground stories and roundabout punishments.
She also should have spent more time explaining why her parents decided to actually be parents within Grace's last 5 months of not being an adult. Is it really just over the sex thing? Cause again I think that's irresponsible as an author and coming from parents.
But I digress, this one was far better than the first and now that grace is a wolf I'm going to have to read the 3rd. Fingers crossed cole and sam come up with some sort of solution that helps everyone have that perfect happy ending blah blah.
It was still hard to get through. I could put it down for days at a time and do other things. While it was interesting I didnt have this pull to finish and consume this book asap. Which is sad, that's my favorite part of reading.
Cole was an interesting character. I'm still on the fence with him but by the end of the book I was more convinced. Though his band name was annoying. I know it was a play on narcotics but my brain kept reading it wrong.
Isabel was absolutely annoying. Yeah her brother is dead dead but could have been a little nicer to everyone around her. Like yeah Grace is dying but also let her and sam enjoy the recording and time together. Isabel comes with all this fire and drama but no help or answers. And I sure hope she doesnt like Sam. That's just going to bring way too much unnecessary drama to the next book. The hints to it were just dropped in throughout this book and didnt add to anything. Let her pine for Cole and call it a day.
While we are talking about cole and isabel I'm not found of how the author handles sex in her books. It is not this big sacred thing that everyone needs to save. Virginity is some stupid made up construct anyways. If someone wants to "throw" it away let them. There is nothing wrong with having sex because you're angry or hurt or any reason really. Don't make it sound like she will regret her choice. Maybe she will but then again maybe she wont. And then the whole punishing sam and grace because thats what her parents think is happening is just wrong too. Again there is nothing wrong with it. As long as protection and consent is used. That's what the author she focus on. Protection and consent rather than weird moral high ground stories and roundabout punishments.
She also should have spent more time explaining why her parents decided to actually be parents within Grace's last 5 months of not being an adult. Is it really just over the sex thing? Cause again I think that's irresponsible as an author and coming from parents.
But I digress, this one was far better than the first and now that grace is a wolf I'm going to have to read the 3rd. Fingers crossed cole and sam come up with some sort of solution that helps everyone have that perfect happy ending blah blah.
It was still hard to get through. I could put it down for days at a time and do other things. While it was interesting I didnt have this pull to finish and consume this book asap. Which is sad, that's my favorite part of reading.
I liked Linger better than Shiver because it didn't feel like Twilight anymore. I also really liked that there were issues with Sam and Grace's relationship, like the fact that they're only teenagers and it seems ridiculous that they could have such strong feelings for each other.
I also really liked delving into Cole and Isabel. There are some seriously flawed characters in this book, but I like that because it makes them interesting and gives them depth. Linger is a bit of a character study in some ways, which I loved.
*Update 10/11/14* So Cole and Isabel are still my favorites. Stiefvater always manages to write such realistically broken characters, and they end up being so interesting. I also forgot just how big the issues between Sam and Grace were. I do love that Grace's parents seem to reintroduce themselves into her life just when she's okay with them being gone, and when it would be far more convenient for them to be gone. While I fully understand why they react the way they do to Grace and Sam's relationship (seriously, she's only seventeen), I also hate them for the way they react. Which just goes to show how well Stiefvater wrote the relationship. Grace and Sam may be teenagers, but it is completely believable that they will be together forever. That isn't usually how I feel about teenage love stories.
I also really liked delving into Cole and Isabel. There are some seriously flawed characters in this book, but I like that because it makes them interesting and gives them depth. Linger is a bit of a character study in some ways, which I loved.
*Update 10/11/14* So Cole and Isabel are still my favorites. Stiefvater always manages to write such realistically broken characters, and they end up being so interesting. I also forgot just how big the issues between Sam and Grace were. I do love that Grace's parents seem to reintroduce themselves into her life just when she's okay with them being gone, and when it would be far more convenient for them to be gone. While I fully understand why they react the way they do to Grace and Sam's relationship (seriously, she's only seventeen), I also hate them for the way they react. Which just goes to show how well Stiefvater wrote the relationship. Grace and Sam may be teenagers, but it is completely believable that they will be together forever. That isn't usually how I feel about teenage love stories.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I NEED FOREVER NOOOOOOOOOOW!!!
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Gud vad jag störde mig på att Cole var en av fyra POV-karaktärer, kunde inte bry mig mindre om hans rockstjärneliv och hur han hatade det och sig själv. Alltså klart, sista 40 sidorna ändrades han på ett snäpp men det var ändå typ inte viktigt alls att veta hans bakgrund? Men fine, det hade kanske varit en väldigt kort och tråkig bok annars.
Konstigt nog var denna, trots översatt av samma person, lite halvdant översatt! Många småfel och vissa ord var inte riktigt rätt.
Åter igen var denna boken så där superjobbig de sista kapitlen, typ må-illa-jobbig. Men ändå najs, blev väldigt indragen i den.
Konstigt nog var denna, trots översatt av samma person, lite halvdant översatt! Många småfel och vissa ord var inte riktigt rätt.
Åter igen var denna boken så där superjobbig de sista kapitlen, typ må-illa-jobbig. Men ändå najs, blev väldigt indragen i den.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Vomit
Minor: Addiction, Suicidal thoughts
Maggie Stiefvater’s (MS) writing calls to me. I have enjoyed every story I’ve read by her so far. A lot of it just has to do with the beautiful way she puts words together to paint pictures in my mind. Like Shiver, Linger is not full of action and suspense but it is a story about people and I’m drawn into it all the same wondering what will happen to these characters.
I liked Shiver because it was a love story about two people overcoming incredible odds and accepting each other for exactly who and what they were. Both Sam and Grave were alone in their own ways and finding each other in human form filled some missing part that had been there for the six years since Grace had been attacked by wolves.
I like Linger for different reasons. There is still the hopelessly sweet love between Sam and Grace that is simple and complex and always filled with that great sense of against all odds and forever. I enjoyed seeing them through the eyes of the two new characters POVs as well.
“He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.
But I also really like Cole. Sam is the sweet do anything for you boy and Cole is the exact opposite all angst and anger, selfishness and self-loathing. I totally believed the reasons he gave for wanting to become a wolf.
“Once upon a time… there was a boy named Cole St. Clair, and he could do anything. And the weight of that possibility was so unbearable that he crushed himself before it had a chance to.”
As the story of his past unfolded I understood parts of why he was so dark and the mistakes that led him to that moment when he decided that being a wolf would be everything the drugs didn’t bring to him anymore. The way Cole meets Isabel is one of my favorite scenes and I like the stark contrast of the relationship they share as compared to the one that Grace and Sam have.
“Aren't you afraid?'
'Of what?'
'Of losing yourself.'
'That's what I'm hoping for.”
The metamorphosis of Cole in this story is huge. He comes a long way and I completely enjoyed his view of the other characters in the story. He has an interesting perspective and his perception of how each interacts really amazed me. Cole is beyond broken and even though his past is full of douchbaggery I really was pulling for him to start over and be a better version of himself.
Isabel is the ‘tell it like it is’ girl. She says the hard thing unfiltered undiluted and sometimes it is needed to shock the characters into an action of some sort. She has no pity for those in her group and yet I find that I like the friend that she has become to Sam and Grace. Her interactions with Cole are not what he expects and I love how that totally throws him of his game.
I would have loved to see more Rachel in this book. She gets some of the finniest lines and I love how she refers to all the other characters. She has a catchy name for each and it really added some comic relief to some of the tension. Rachel always refers to Sam as The Boy and her names for Isabel are creative and fitting.
“Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night..."
Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.”
Sam and Grace are still the main draw for me and it will be interesting to see what happens in forever after the ending to this one. I hated Graces parents a little for being gone for her life for so long and now finally taking an interest and trivializing her relationship to Sam. Normally I’d say yeah your seventeen what do you know about love. But I ship them so I don’t care how young they seem, Grace saw him when he was another species and loved him then for six years so I’m going to cut them some slack and call it an epic destiny.
Sam is a great beta boy and Cole is an interesting addition as the bad boy. Now that they will be living together it will be interesting to see how they affect one another.
Side Note I listened to this on Audiobook and loved it. I have loved all MS’s books on Audio so far, The Scorpio Races the most though. There was a different narrator for each POV and that made the story all the better for me. I highly recommend this series on Audio as well there is just something about MS’s writing style that lends itself beautifully to being read out loud.
I liked Shiver because it was a love story about two people overcoming incredible odds and accepting each other for exactly who and what they were. Both Sam and Grave were alone in their own ways and finding each other in human form filled some missing part that had been there for the six years since Grace had been attacked by wolves.
I like Linger for different reasons. There is still the hopelessly sweet love between Sam and Grace that is simple and complex and always filled with that great sense of against all odds and forever. I enjoyed seeing them through the eyes of the two new characters POVs as well.
“He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark.
But I also really like Cole. Sam is the sweet do anything for you boy and Cole is the exact opposite all angst and anger, selfishness and self-loathing. I totally believed the reasons he gave for wanting to become a wolf.
“Once upon a time… there was a boy named Cole St. Clair, and he could do anything. And the weight of that possibility was so unbearable that he crushed himself before it had a chance to.”
As the story of his past unfolded I understood parts of why he was so dark and the mistakes that led him to that moment when he decided that being a wolf would be everything the drugs didn’t bring to him anymore. The way Cole meets Isabel is one of my favorite scenes and I like the stark contrast of the relationship they share as compared to the one that Grace and Sam have.
“Aren't you afraid?'
'Of what?'
'Of losing yourself.'
'That's what I'm hoping for.”
The metamorphosis of Cole in this story is huge. He comes a long way and I completely enjoyed his view of the other characters in the story. He has an interesting perspective and his perception of how each interacts really amazed me. Cole is beyond broken and even though his past is full of douchbaggery I really was pulling for him to start over and be a better version of himself.
Isabel is the ‘tell it like it is’ girl. She says the hard thing unfiltered undiluted and sometimes it is needed to shock the characters into an action of some sort. She has no pity for those in her group and yet I find that I like the friend that she has become to Sam and Grace. Her interactions with Cole are not what he expects and I love how that totally throws him of his game.
I would have loved to see more Rachel in this book. She gets some of the finniest lines and I love how she refers to all the other characters. She has a catchy name for each and it really added some comic relief to some of the tension. Rachel always refers to Sam as The Boy and her names for Isabel are creative and fitting.
“Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another night..."
Sam's face was twisted into a weird shape at the mention of his Boyfruits.”
Sam and Grace are still the main draw for me and it will be interesting to see what happens in forever after the ending to this one. I hated Graces parents a little for being gone for her life for so long and now finally taking an interest and trivializing her relationship to Sam. Normally I’d say yeah your seventeen what do you know about love. But I ship them so I don’t care how young they seem, Grace saw him when he was another species and loved him then for six years so I’m going to cut them some slack and call it an epic destiny.
Sam is a great beta boy and Cole is an interesting addition as the bad boy. Now that they will be living together it will be interesting to see how they affect one another.
Side Note I listened to this on Audiobook and loved it. I have loved all MS’s books on Audio so far, The Scorpio Races the most though. There was a different narrator for each POV and that made the story all the better for me. I highly recommend this series on Audio as well there is just something about MS’s writing style that lends itself beautifully to being read out loud.
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I want to punch Grace Brisbane in the muzzle.
I can't stand people who don't respect their parents. Miss Brisbane has parents who provide a roof, car, and food for her. So, when they started being a little strict with her and her wolfy boy-toy, and she started being a disrespectful, whiny little bitch (no pun intended, seeing as she ACTUALLY turns into a female dog at the end) I was determined to find this fictional character and punch her in her already-bleeding face. Normal girls don't act that way when they're away from their boyfriends for a FEW DAYS. Miss Brisbane makes it sound like they're star-crossed lovers that have been torn apart for months by the cruel hands of fate. I was aching for the entire book, just hoping this ungrateful little shit would die or turn into a wolf or SOMETHING so I could get the hell out of her head.
Cole St. Clair and Isabel Culpepper saved (and stole) the show, in my opinion, with their rocky, awkward, broken romance. Can I have an entire series with only the two of them in it, please?
And Sam can be in this new series, too. Because I like Sam. It's just a shame that he's all caught up and infatuated with the whiny bitch that I want to bludgeon with a stone.
SO, Maggie Stiefvater. Shape up your heroine in this next and last book, will ya? Because, dear GOD, she's hard to stomach.
I can't stand people who don't respect their parents. Miss Brisbane has parents who provide a roof, car, and food for her. So, when they started being a little strict with her and her wolfy boy-toy, and she started being a disrespectful, whiny little bitch (no pun intended, seeing as she ACTUALLY turns into a female dog at the end) I was determined to find this fictional character and punch her in her already-bleeding face. Normal girls don't act that way when they're away from their boyfriends for a FEW DAYS. Miss Brisbane makes it sound like they're star-crossed lovers that have been torn apart for months by the cruel hands of fate. I was aching for the entire book, just hoping this ungrateful little shit would die or turn into a wolf or SOMETHING so I could get the hell out of her head.
Cole St. Clair and Isabel Culpepper saved (and stole) the show, in my opinion, with their rocky, awkward, broken romance. Can I have an entire series with only the two of them in it, please?
And Sam can be in this new series, too. Because I like Sam. It's just a shame that he's all caught up and infatuated with the whiny bitch that I want to bludgeon with a stone.
SO, Maggie Stiefvater. Shape up your heroine in this next and last book, will ya? Because, dear GOD, she's hard to stomach.
Many people have given the books in this series one star as they claim it is the werewolf "Twilight". Contrary to their opinions, I am rather enjoying this series as it covers a wealth of intense subjects and the writing is rather poetic for a young adult series. I will admit that Sam and Grace are a little over dramatic when it comes to their relationship but the book is still a worthy read.
