By Maggie Stiefvater
book rate: ★★★☆☆ (2.5/5)
If you
haven’t read the first book in the series, be aware, this review contains
spoilers of book one, Shiver. If you want to know more about shiver here is my full review.
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 Isabelle, who already lost her brother to the wolves . . .
and is nonetheless drawn to Cole.
This is book is told from four different perspectives, Sam, Grace,
Isabel and Cole. Cole is one of the New
Wolves Beck brought before changing to wolf. It’s still too cold for the new
wolves to start shifting but Cole is already human during most days so he’s
trying to figure out why and how this wolf thing really works. I can’t decide
if I like Cole or not, he’s obvious not a stable person, he just wants to be a
wolf and lose himself but in the end he actually snaps out a little and starts
acting like a normal person. Isabel was
a character that intrigued me in Shiver
and I was glad we could see the story thought her eyes. I felt like she was the
only one trying to hold everything together. Sam’s chapters were the worse of
the book, instead of facing the problems that he has to face, he only things
about two things: thinking about this cure, and telling himself that he is
cured and thinking of Grace and how much he misses her. Grace’s chapters are not that good as well. I appreciated the fact that she stood up for herself and told everything
she thought to her parents about them, but other than that, she only thought
about Sam or how much pain she was in. This leaves us with Isabel having to
take action, worrying about Grace, taking care of Cole and make Sam wake up
from his daze and take action before something bad happened. If it was not from
Isabel this book would have sucked!
Needless to say I didn’t like this book. I didn’t like the characters, I
felt like there was no personality to them, specially Sam and Grace. Nothing happened
until the very end of the book. It was boring. Although I intend on reading the
next book to find out what happens I think Shiver
would have served better as a stand-a-lone. I was disappointed with Linger and I hope the next book is
better.
I completely agree! It was very brave of you to post such a honest review. The characters and plot both were flat for me, and the saddest part was I wanted to love this book SO much! I tried to talk myself into giving it more of a chance, but it was hopeless. The only characters I kinda liked were Cole and Isabel, but I don't like them enough to read their spinoff story. Great review!
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I'm going to try Forever. I hate to leave a series when there's only a book missing. I don't know if I'll read Isabel and Cole's story. I haven't made my mind about this two characters yet. I hope Forever is better than this one.
EliminarThank you for your comment. I appreciate it!
Very good and honest review. While I did like the book, I can totally see what you're getting at! You got yourself a new follower here :D
ResponderEliminarThank you! And thank you so much for following :)
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