Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls) by Maggie Stiefvater
Hardcover, 362 pages
Published July 13th 2010 by Scholastic Press
In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. Now, in Linger, they must fight to be together. For Grace, this means defying her parents and keeping a very dangerous secret about her own well-being. For Sam, this means grappling with his werewolf past . . . and figuring out a way to survive into the future. Add into the mix a new wolf named Cole, whose own past has the potential to destroy the whole pack. And Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . . and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.
Book review by Miss Kim
Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness. Depression. Impending doom. This is the tone of the second book in Ms. Stievfater’s Mercy Falls series. I absolutely loved Shiver, but the tone of Linger just brought me down. I should have been able to read this in one or two days, but it took a week because I kept putting it down.
Sam and Grace are still the main focus in this story. Sam is no longer a wolf, and things should be great right? Wrong. Sam is conflicted about losing his wolf self and family, and the pack is threatened by something or someone killing the wolves. Grace is sick with a fever and they cannot figure out what is wrong with her. I feared the whole book that Grace was going to die or turn into a wolf.
We get to know Cole, a new wolf in this book. When he was changed, he was a famous strung out rock star. He chose to become a wolf to lose himself and not have to be miserable any longer. I really liked Cole, even though he came off as a cocky ass most of the time.
Isabelle, Grace’s friend, has a large role in this book as well. I still don’t like her that much. She’s one of those women that just shoots off whatever they are thinking without regard to anyone’s feelings. She is drawn to Cole, but doesn’t want to be. She can’t understand why anyone would choose to be a wolf, since she watched her brother die last year while fighting to not become a wolf.
All four POV were given throughout out the book. Each chapter was headed by whose POV it was, but if I put the book down and came back later I’d forgot who I was reading because the thinking was pretty similar. I’d get frustrated and have to go back and look.
The third book isn’t released for over six months from now! Damn it all, after that cliffhanger of an ending.
Sam and Grace are still the main focus in this story. Sam is no longer a wolf, and things should be great right? Wrong. Sam is conflicted about losing his wolf self and family, and the pack is threatened by something or someone killing the wolves. Grace is sick with a fever and they cannot figure out what is wrong with her. I feared the whole book that Grace was going to die or turn into a wolf.
We get to know Cole, a new wolf in this book. When he was changed, he was a famous strung out rock star. He chose to become a wolf to lose himself and not have to be miserable any longer. I really liked Cole, even though he came off as a cocky ass most of the time.
Isabelle, Grace’s friend, has a large role in this book as well. I still don’t like her that much. She’s one of those women that just shoots off whatever they are thinking without regard to anyone’s feelings. She is drawn to Cole, but doesn’t want to be. She can’t understand why anyone would choose to be a wolf, since she watched her brother die last year while fighting to not become a wolf.
All four POV were given throughout out the book. Each chapter was headed by whose POV it was, but if I put the book down and came back later I’d forgot who I was reading because the thinking was pretty similar. I’d get frustrated and have to go back and look.
The third book isn’t released for over six months from now! Damn it all, after that cliffhanger of an ending.
About author:
All of Maggie Stiefvater's life decisions have been based around her inability to be gainfully employed. Talking to yourself, staring into space, and coming to work in your pajamas are frowned upon when you're a waitress, calligraphy instructor, or technical editor (all of which she's tried), but are highly prized traits in novelists and artists. She's made her living as one or the other since she was 22. She now lives an eccentric life in the middle of nowhere, Virginia with her charmingly straight-laced husband, two kids, two neurotic dogs, and a 1973 Camaro named Loki.
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