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3.71 AVERAGE
3.71 AVERAGE
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So Sam & Grace are together.The cure worked.
But now there is a whole slew of new problems. Beck has left behind new wolves to be cared for. Isabel's dad is even more gung-ho about killing more wolves. Grace isn't feeling well and stinks of wolf. And Grace's parents catch them together in her bed (kind of).
I think this book was easier for me to get sucked in to because of the way Sam & Grace are separated by way of her never-present roommate parents...who by the way are complete douchebags. I was forbade from seeing my now-husband right after we started dating. I think Grace becomes a little irritating in this one, in the sense that you just want her to SPEAK UP about how she's feeling. I was glad she told her dumb parents off - good for her, but I wanted her to say something about how she was feeling to Sam. Cole is rough. He is a hard character to get a feel for at first. I think I'm starting to like him now - or at least want to see his character grow and have resolve to his problems. Isabel is probably my new favorite character. She is the bitch that the story needs. The person who comes in, tells it like it is, fills in the blanks, and gets stuff done! It's also interesting to get to know her personality better. I really love her perspective in the story. I really enjoyed how Stiefvater went more into the wolf mythology in this one and how she brought Cole, whose dad is a "mad scientist" into the story to help get a more accurate opinion on why the wolves function as they do. This was just another great book!
I didn't think it was possible to fall more in love with this series but it was. I fell in love with the new characters towards the point were Cole is my new favorite character and Isabelle has my total admiration for what she has got to go through. The ending made me cry and I'm looking forward to the next book and the ending of the series.
"I had a weird, empty feeling inside me. Not a bad sort of empty. It was a sort of lack of sensation, like being in pain for a long time and then suddenly realizing that you're not anymore. It was the feeling of having risked everything to be here with a boy and then realizing that he was exactly what I wanted. Being a picture and then finding I was really a puzzle piece, once I found the piece that was supposed to fit beside me."
This was a bit of a roller-coaster rating for me. Up until about the last 60 or so pages, I was sitting at a solid 3-stars. But then Maggie throws a curveball in the last inning (sounds right...sports metaphors, not my thing) and it was a bit of a game-changer for me.
✔︎ -- I will always, always round up *at least* half a star just based on Maggie's writing. I love it. I know it's not for everyone, but I just adore how she can make 360 pages span a few days (weeks?) and have not all that much happen, but it never feels like filler. It's beautiful, it's engaging, and it draws me in.
✘ -- This book still had its fair share of teen angst, which just reminded me so much of the Twilight era. Let me be clear: there is not nearly as much as Twilight so we don't get the Romeo and Juliet level vibes that Stephenie Meyer was so clearly going for. But Sam and Grace are Very Much In Love (not lust), and there's a lot of "this isn't temporary, this is forever" jibber jabber.
Also--Grace's parents REALLY bug me. I understand what Maggie was going for re: their sudden interest in their daughter's life, but it just didn't wasn't as believable as I think I needed it to be.
For one, they were SO absent for all of Grace's life, and they clearly know they raised a self-sufficient daughter.
Two, they seemed completely oblivious to this when Grace pointed it out -- or, perhaps, they just didn't like being confronted with their own shortcomings (which is actually more believable).
Three, I'm not sure why they came down so hard on Sam. Grace's mom was flirting with him in Book #1, and why they obviously don't know about the werewolf business, they do know his parents LITERALLY TRIED TO KILL HIM AND ARE IN JAIL FOR THAT. Given their past characterizations, it seemed more likely for them to fold him into the family (and then casually forget about him) then to go full "Under my roof, you follow my rules.) And, as Rachel pointed out, Sam is A Good One. There are no (visible) negative ramifications to their relationship -- her grades aren't slipping, she's not skipping school (well, or at least the school doesn't deem it enough to contact her parents), etc.
So, yeah. The parents subplot was one of the more irritating aspects of this book.
(But I think I see where and how the relationship between Blue and her mother's in The Raven Cycle evolved from -- and evolved for the better. It's a healthier, less angsty (but not without its realistic conflicts), more believable relationship.)
✔︎ -- Me, during Shiver and the first 300 pages of this book: Supernatural Romance. Mmmkay.
Me, during the last 60 pages of this book: I'M SORRY, YOU WENT SCIENCE FICTION ON ME? ❤️❤️❤️
I had accepted the fact that we would never understand more about the wolves and the shifting. That wasn't the point. The romance wasn't the point.
But then...we get science! I know we kinda got science in the last book, when they tried to use meningitis as a "cure," but for most of this book we just accepted that it worked for Sam and not for Jack. So I'm intrigued.
✔︎ -- One of the strengths of this book, I think, was also the fact that we expanded out beyond Grace and Sam. We got Isabel's POV a few times, as well as Cole's -- and Cole has, I think, a fantastic arc. Again, I wasn't in until the last 60 pages, and then it all came together. He reminds me a bit of Gansey and Ronan rolled into one character: Gansey's privilege and Ronan's self-destructive behavior.
This was a bit of a roller-coaster rating for me. Up until about the last 60 or so pages, I was sitting at a solid 3-stars. But then Maggie throws a curveball in the last inning (sounds right...sports metaphors, not my thing) and it was a bit of a game-changer for me.
✔︎ -- I will always, always round up *at least* half a star just based on Maggie's writing. I love it. I know it's not for everyone, but I just adore how she can make 360 pages span a few days (weeks?) and have not all that much happen, but it never feels like filler. It's beautiful, it's engaging, and it draws me in.
✘ -- This book still had its fair share of teen angst, which just reminded me so much of the Twilight era. Let me be clear: there is not nearly as much as Twilight so we don't get the Romeo and Juliet level vibes that Stephenie Meyer was so clearly going for. But Sam and Grace are Very Much In Love (not lust), and there's a lot of "this isn't temporary, this is forever" jibber jabber.
Also--Grace's parents REALLY bug me. I understand what Maggie was going for re: their sudden interest in their daughter's life, but it just didn't wasn't as believable as I think I needed it to be.
For one, they were SO absent for all of Grace's life, and they clearly know they raised a self-sufficient daughter.
Two, they seemed completely oblivious to this when Grace pointed it out -- or, perhaps, they just didn't like being confronted with their own shortcomings (which is actually more believable).
Three, I'm not sure why they came down so hard on Sam. Grace's mom was flirting with him in Book #1, and why they obviously don't know about the werewolf business, they do know his parents LITERALLY TRIED TO KILL HIM AND ARE IN JAIL FOR THAT. Given their past characterizations, it seemed more likely for them to fold him into the family (and then casually forget about him) then to go full "Under my roof, you follow my rules.) And, as Rachel pointed out, Sam is A Good One. There are no (visible) negative ramifications to their relationship -- her grades aren't slipping, she's not skipping school (well, or at least the school doesn't deem it enough to contact her parents), etc.
So, yeah. The parents subplot was one of the more irritating aspects of this book.
(But I think I see where and how the relationship between Blue and her mother's in The Raven Cycle evolved from -- and evolved for the better. It's a healthier, less angsty (but not without its realistic conflicts), more believable relationship.)
✔︎ -- Me, during Shiver and the first 300 pages of this book: Supernatural Romance. Mmmkay.
Me, during the last 60 pages of this book: I'M SORRY, YOU WENT SCIENCE FICTION ON ME? ❤️❤️❤️
I had accepted the fact that we would never understand more about the wolves and the shifting. That wasn't the point. The romance wasn't the point.
But then...we get science! I know we kinda got science in the last book, when they tried to use meningitis as a "cure," but for most of this book we just accepted that it worked for Sam and not for Jack. So I'm intrigued.
✔︎ -- One of the strengths of this book, I think, was also the fact that we expanded out beyond Grace and Sam. We got Isabel's POV a few times, as well as Cole's -- and Cole has, I think, a fantastic arc. Again, I wasn't in until the last 60 pages, and then it all came together. He reminds me a bit of Gansey and Ronan rolled into one character: Gansey's privilege and Ronan's self-destructive behavior.
can't seem to get myself to finish this book, I have kept trying to pick it up again ever since it was released but it has failed to capture me.
I loved the first novel, and really enjoy Stiefvater's writing, however I keep wishing this book remained a stand alone and not a series.
Mind you I will reserve final judgment until I do actually finish the book, so this is still tentative.
I loved the first novel, and really enjoy Stiefvater's writing, however I keep wishing this book remained a stand alone and not a series.
Mind you I will reserve final judgment until I do actually finish the book, so this is still tentative.
Another amazing book in the Mercy Falls series!
It took me slightly longer to get into this one, but the first novel in any series always tend to be my favorites, so this wasn't surprising to me.
Basically, things have gotten a lot more complicated. Sam's no longer a wolf, but Grace is having her own issues... Isabel is trying to get over Jack's death, and Beck apparently made some new wolves when he thought Sam was going to be gone forever. And the new guy in the pack is a story all on his own...
The novel ends with a bang, and it will maybe knock your breath out while not surprising you at all, and yet you still want more. I'm beginning to love this woman's writing, and I'm so happy she created this trilogy. Read it, or continue reading the series, because either way you'll love it!
It took me slightly longer to get into this one, but the first novel in any series always tend to be my favorites, so this wasn't surprising to me.
Basically, things have gotten a lot more complicated. Sam's no longer a wolf, but Grace is having her own issues... Isabel is trying to get over Jack's death, and Beck apparently made some new wolves when he thought Sam was going to be gone forever. And the new guy in the pack is a story all on his own...
The novel ends with a bang, and it will maybe knock your breath out while not surprising you at all, and yet you still want more. I'm beginning to love this woman's writing, and I'm so happy she created this trilogy. Read it, or continue reading the series, because either way you'll love it!
In this book Grace and Sam are finally together but with that comes even more trials than before. We are also introduced to one of my absolute favorite characters in the whole series, Cole St.Clair. Cole is everything you’d want a bad boy to be and more. I honestly do not know how you could not fall in love with him. I gave this book a 4/5 because I felt that a 5/5 would have betrayed my love for Shiver. I did not have any big issues with the book and thoroughly enjoyed it.
Linger was a pretty good read, not as captivating as the first but enjoyable nonetheless. We learn more about the new wolves and some things about the old wolves and dive deeper into Sam and Grace's relationship.
Grace's parents start to grow weary of Sam and start to care about the daughter they leave at home to fend for herself and Grace gets ill and needs Sam.
I don't want to spoil anything, but this book left me frustrating...I NEED to read the third book, I have to find out what happens to these...star-crossed(??) lovers and the new wolves that may all be sociopaths.
Grace's parents start to grow weary of Sam and start to care about the daughter they leave at home to fend for herself and Grace gets ill and needs Sam.
I don't want to spoil anything, but this book left me frustrating...I NEED to read the third book, I have to find out what happens to these...star-crossed(??) lovers and the new wolves that may all be sociopaths.
I really struggled with the first half of this book. It was a lot sadder than I expected, really melancholy. I expected that it would be more upbeat and joyful because Sam had been cured. Even though I could kind of see where the book was going from the beginning I still didn't really expect the ending.
I like Cole, at first I wasn't sure what to think of him but he grew on me. And I like Isabel. I really hope in the next book we get to see some more healing and growth for both of them.
I like Cole, at first I wasn't sure what to think of him but he grew on me. And I like Isabel. I really hope in the next book we get to see some more healing and growth for both of them.
