Linger
By Maggie Stiefvater
I was going to rate this 3 stars up until the last 100 pages. Then I changed it to 3.5, but I felt generous so I rounded up to 4 stars. I didn’t feel the spark in Linger that I felt in Shiver. Altogether it felt very filler and not a lot of plot. It made it a slow read and hard to plow through.
In this installment of Maggie Stiefvater’s Wolves of Mercy Falls, Linger, the author introduces new problems facing Grace and Sam. It also includes the point of views of a character known as Cole St. Clair and an already existing character, Isabel. The shifting points of view were done in uniquely different ways.
The story line of the story is that Grace gets sick due to some unknown cause and Cole (a well known rockstar) wants to escape his life. Grace also gets into a lot of trouble by her parents one night when Sam is found in her bed. It’s even harder to be together now that Grace is sick and grounded. She needs Sam so she can dull the pain.
Cole is a new wolf bitten by Beck and is supposedly onto something when he draws up certain conclusions about Sam’s supposed cure and helps to figure out how to save Grace. That happens more towards the end, which was more exciting. He wants to become a wolf more than a human because he wants to escape life and finds out new leads to the werewolves’ condition.
Isabel became a big character in this novel and her character grew on me a little more. It seems like she’s the only one not infected and she’s the voice of reason when it comes down to life or death.
I did have a moment at the end where I was scared about what would happen. I was happy to connect to the book at the end, which is why I rated it 4 stars in the end.
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