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 finds herself changing in ways she could never have expected...This book is told in not one, not two, not even three, but four different points of view and somehow it was still completely absorbing. It is told from the perspectives of Grace, Sam, Isabel and a new character, Cole.
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We left Grace and Sam at the end of Shiver in love and happy together, but now in Linger that is starting to unravel. Grace is struggling to keep a secret hidden, one that would change her whole life, whilst trying to convince herself that everything will be alright. Sam is still trying to get used to not having to fear the cold, so is very wary about any long term plans. He's glad to be in human form but really misses his family, the pack, in the woods.
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In Linger, Cole is introduced. He appears to be the complete opposite of Sam, with his shallow bad boy persona, yet, he has the same pure motivations that make you like him. However, he made the choice to become a wolf to try and escape and forget a painful past. Not unlike Cole, Isabel is also try to deal with her own personal demons, the guilt she feels from the loss of her brother. Both Isabel and Cole's characters were developed beautifully throughout the novel, enhancing the depth and complexity of their characters. I think I even started to like them more than Grace and Sam. There was one scene with Cole and a deer that really made me love his character because it showed a really vunerable and emotional side to him.
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One thing I didn't quite understand though, is why Grace's parents were all of a sudden against her and Sams relationship. I felt they didn't have any right telling her what to do since they have basically ignored her and left her to her own devices thus far. The sudden upsurge in interest involving Grace didn't really make any sense and felt a bit out of place. However, you can't know for sure whether it is significant or not until the sequel.
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As with Shiver, I felt Linger was enchantingly written with such intensity and beauty. Stiefvater just seems to have a way with words that brings the story to life. It's full of imagery and descriptions that fill your senses. It may be a supernatural story, but it is also about love and loss. It was definitely a cliffhanger that ended on a sad and unsure note, so I can't wait to read the next installment, Forever, to see what's in store for the perfectly balanced Grace and Sam.
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Random Passage: He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were two elements that became brilliant in proximity. At Sam's clumsy efforts to carry the vacuum, Grace smiled a new smile that I thought only he ever got, and he shot her a withering look full of the sort of subtext you could only get from a lot of conversations whispered after dark. It made me think of Isabel, back at her house. We didn't have what Sam and Grace had. We weren't even close to having it. I didn't think what we had could get to this, even if you gave it a thousand years.
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