Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

[chesilbeach]

Title: Linger

Author: Maggie Stiefvater

Publisher: Scholastic

Rating: 4/5

Synopsis (from book cover):

Grace and Sam must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping dangerous secrets. For Sam, it means grappling with his werewolf past ... and figuring out a way to survive the future.

But just when they manage to find happiness, Grace realizes she's changing in ways she could never have expected ...

Review:

I absolutely loved the first book in the Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy, Shiver, and it was such a great story encapsulated in the one book, I'd been hoping it would remain as a stand-alone story, so when I found out there would be two more I had mixed feelings. However, as time drew nearer to the release of Linger, my anticipation mounted and I couldn't wait to read it when it was finally released.

What a wonderful book Linger turned out to be. Stiefvater plugs into the gamut of teenage emotions including Isabel's anger, Cole's depression, Sam's insecurity and loneliness and Grace's hidden sadness and worry. I did miss the closeness and intimacy of the story of Grace and Sam with the inclusion of Isabel and new character Cole as narrators, but both felt necessary as the story develops and leads up to a heart wrenching climax and cliff hanger for the final part of the story.

There is an undercurrent of sadness running through this book. It pervades every line of the writing, and left me with a feeling of melancholy as I finished the book. Stiefvater's writing is beautiful yet measured, and her style is clean but emotive.

I was a little disappointed with one aspect in that one of the elements I loved most of Shiver was the descriptions of landscape and homes and even trucks, yet this was missing from Linger although I guess the setting hadn't changed at all, so the need it wasn't there, nevertheless, I missed them.

Overall though I loved it, and will wait eagerly for the final installment so I'll be able to read the whole saga in one fell swoop!

[Weave]

Great review Chesil, I enjoyed 'Linger' too, there is so much in it and the emotions were described so well

[Bettyboop33]

Just bought this book I am super exited about reading it, I'm taking it on holiday with me. It looks amazing.

[Weave]

Just bought this book I am super exited about reading it, I'm taking it on holiday with me. It looks amazing.

 

Happy reading Bettyboop

[MountainGirl]

I'm reading this right now. It seems to kind of be dragging for me. Its not as fast moving as Shiver was. I feel like its a lot of repetition.