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A review by fairleylloyd
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
3.0
I really enjoyed “Shiver” and was keen on reading the rest of the series after seeing that it was a part of a trilogy, but there was one thing that held me back from giving the book five stars, and it’s a problem that felt more present in “Linger”: it was the fact that the story had parts where not much was happening. Although I enjoy romance, in romance books like “Shiver”, the love story can bore me, and, with not much else happening, I get bored with the story.
That was my biggest issue, really, because everything else about the story I enjoyed. Grace and Sam’s relationship is really cute—even though I felt like they fell in love fast in the previous book, they really do have chemistry. They’re pretty sweet together.
I enjoy Isabel’s character as well. I love how she went through character development; in the first book, she seemed really spiteful, but, later on, she showed her softer side, and I started liking her sarcastic cynicism-hides-my-true-pain self. It made her feel more three-dimensional and well-rounded than I thought she had been previously, and I always love that!
At first, I thought that I wasn’t going to like the addition of Cole, but I didn’t mind him so much. In fact, I learned to like him. I loved how he seemed like such a jerk at first but he really has done some horrible things in his past that makes him feel like a horrible person and that he uses his wolf side as an escape from his emotional hell. Like Isabel, he’s just a person who’s been through so much pain and needs healing.
Overall, I thought that “Linger” was pretty good, but not as good as I would have liked it. Perhaps with “Shiver” I didn’t mind not as much happening as much because it was the first book in the series and I was just getting to know the characters, but by Linger I was hoping that it wouldn’t happen as much. In any case, though, it was still a good book, and I cared about the characters—which always makes a story readable.
That was my biggest issue, really, because everything else about the story I enjoyed. Grace and Sam’s relationship is really cute—even though I felt like they fell in love fast in the previous book, they really do have chemistry. They’re pretty sweet together.
I enjoy Isabel’s character as well. I love how she went through character development; in the first book, she seemed really spiteful, but, later on, she showed her softer side, and I started liking her sarcastic cynicism-hides-my-true-pain self. It made her feel more three-dimensional and well-rounded than I thought she had been previously, and I always love that!
At first, I thought that I wasn’t going to like the addition of Cole, but I didn’t mind him so much. In fact, I learned to like him. I loved how he seemed like such a jerk at first but he really has done some horrible things in his past that makes him feel like a horrible person and that he uses his wolf side as an escape from his emotional hell. Like Isabel, he’s just a person who’s been through so much pain and needs healing.
Overall, I thought that “Linger” was pretty good, but not as good as I would have liked it. Perhaps with “Shiver” I didn’t mind not as much happening as much because it was the first book in the series and I was just getting to know the characters, but by Linger I was hoping that it wouldn’t happen as much. In any case, though, it was still a good book, and I cared about the characters—which always makes a story readable.