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A review by kblincoln
Linger by Maggie Stiefvater
3.0
All the things I liked about the first book in this series, Shiver, are present here in Linger. The truly lyrical writing, teen angst extraordinaire, intense focus on each character's inner emotional landscape, and a version of our world where a disease causes certain people to shift with the cold.
But this time it didn't take for me. I found myself wanting to skim over certain parts.
In this book we get the continued story of Grace and Sam; Grace a math-genius practical type girl who was bitten by werewolves a long time ago, but due to being locked into a car as a child during a heat wave doesn't shift, and Sam, a werewolf she fell in love with that at the end of the last book staved off final separation from his true love by contracting meningitis and now doesn't shift at all.
While Grace and Sam's longing for and appreciation of eachother color this book (my goodness the german poets and lyrics quoted!) and are wonderful, heart-affirming, romantical 'shipping at it's finest, I missed the math-genius Grace and the wolf Sam.
In their stead we get more development of Grace's "friend" Isabel, who lost her brother to the werewolf disease and Cole, a wolf changed by Sam's foster father. Both of these characters are on self-destructive paths.
While I think those paths might resonate with some people, for me it seemed over-the-top teen angst that made me a bit tired of Cole's POV by the end.
If you feel like wallowing in angst and love and feelings and the meaning of love and life and everything, this is the book for you.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Turkish Coffee for the dark bitterness of love and life and fate down to the grounds at the bottom of the cup.
But this time it didn't take for me. I found myself wanting to skim over certain parts.
In this book we get the continued story of Grace and Sam; Grace a math-genius practical type girl who was bitten by werewolves a long time ago, but due to being locked into a car as a child during a heat wave doesn't shift, and Sam, a werewolf she fell in love with that at the end of the last book staved off final separation from his true love by contracting meningitis and now doesn't shift at all.
While Grace and Sam's longing for and appreciation of eachother color this book (my goodness the german poets and lyrics quoted!) and are wonderful, heart-affirming, romantical 'shipping at it's finest, I missed the math-genius Grace and the wolf Sam.
In their stead we get more development of Grace's "friend" Isabel, who lost her brother to the werewolf disease and Cole, a wolf changed by Sam's foster father. Both of these characters are on self-destructive paths.
While I think those paths might resonate with some people, for me it seemed over-the-top teen angst that made me a bit tired of Cole's POV by the end.
If you feel like wallowing in angst and love and feelings and the meaning of love and life and everything, this is the book for you.
This Book's Food Designation Rating: Turkish Coffee for the dark bitterness of love and life and fate down to the grounds at the bottom of the cup.