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Linger
by Maggie Stiefvater
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.