Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic
Pages: 360
Series: Wolves of Mercy Falls #2
Rating: 4.5 stars
From Goodreads:
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 Isabel, who already lost her brother to the wolves...and is nonetheless drawn to Cole. At turns harrowing and euphoric, Linger is a spellbinding love story that explores both sides of love--the light and the dark, the warm and the cold--in a way you will never forget.
Shiver certainly set the standards high for the rest of the Wolves of Mercy Falls series, and I was pleased to discover that Linger more than meets those standards. Sam and Grace are such wonderful characters, and the addition of Isabel and Cole just makes it better. I was a little concerned at the beginning about having four different characters narrating, but I shouldn't have worried. Stiefvater pulls it off flawlessly. The characters are so real, and the story just keeps getting better. Stiefvater's way with words is just amazing.
As in Shiver, there is a lot of romance, and it is done well. But in Linger, there's a lot more extra stuff to it. The development of the individual characters and their backstories is just as if not more important than the development of the romantic relationships between the characters, and the platonic relationships between the other characters are also explored thoroughly. Everything about these characters is real and wonderful, and even if the story concluded in this book, I'd want another one just to spend more time with Sam, Grace, Cole, and Isabel.
And then, of course, there's the mystery of the werewolves. Why are they what they are? What does it mean to become one? And is there a way to stay human? It draws you in and keeps you there. And I really cannot wait for book three, because I need to know what happens.
There is just so much to this story. Absolutely everyone should read them, no exaggeration. My only complaint about Linger was that it was less self-sufficient than Shiver; in places, it felt more like it was building up to the next book rather than telling its own story. But that hardly counts, because I am so ready for book three already. I absolutely adore this series. Linger officially releases two weeks from today, and some formats are already available - this is one you should make sure you get a copy of as soon as you can.
Links:
Maggie Stiefvater's website
Maggie Stiefvater's blog
Wolves of Mercy Falls website
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