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Linger |  | Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic
Category: Book
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Rating:  19 reviews
Sales Rank: 159
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2
Pages: 432
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 1.2
ISBN: 1407121081
EAN: 9781407121086
ASIN: 1407121081
Publication Date: July 21, 2010
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Product Description
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...
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 Amazingly Brilliantly Wow! July 23, 2010
B. Booth (UK)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
OK, so I read Shiver and loved, loved, loved it. I loved the original take on the subject of werewolves, watching Sam and Graces relationship as it unfolded, and I TOTALLY didn't cry at the end!
As with most great books I had a slight feeling that the follow up might not be as good due to the high standards set. Really, though, I had nothing to worry about. I actually think this is better than Shiver :) - saying a lot!
Chapters still flick between Sam and Grace's POV but two more - Isabel's and Cole's (one of the new wolves) - are added. If you're like me and are instantly put off by the thought of a different POV, then honestly, I promise it only makes the story better. Isabel's character develops a lot, we get a little look into her home life and what goes on in her head. But Cole, he's a very interesting character! I don't wanna give spoilers so I'll just say he used to be in a band and he has issues. It's his relationship with Isabel that I loved though; which starts btw, with a pretty entertaining scene where he turns up in her house naked.
So this book is more plot driven but Sam and Grace's relationship is still sweet. Before I wrote this review I was reading the first 3*(!!) review on linger. Whoever wrote it was saying about how they were dissapointed that there was less of the whole Sam and Grace dating, and reading poetry to each other ect. you get what I'm on about. The thing is though,if this book had been filled with their dates, poetry reading to each other ect. people would complain it's more of the same and it' getting old! Yeah, there's less of it but it's still there (ie. Sam's birthday) including all of the little gestures that they love each other. This book is more about how Sam and Grace are being pulled apart basically - by Graces sickness and by her parents attitudes towards Sam. So obv is gonna be different from Shiver where it's about them getting together. There is a need for plot when you're writing a trilogy y'know!
Speaking of plot, events in this book mainly involve Graces sickness, the new wolves (i.e Cole) and Graces parents new-found hate for Sam. Everything going on with Grace seems to be trying it's best to take her away from Sam and Sam is feeling pressured with problems brought up by the new wolves.
Sam's character develops more too, we actually see a bit of, well, not nastiness but...he's doesn't like Cole and vice versa, so he loses some gentleness towards him. But Sam's poetry loving, soft hearted amazingness is still there and highly loveable. We also get to see how him and Grace have learnt to know each other in more depth and seeing Sam and Grace through other characters eyes also helps get to see them as a whole.
The ending of this book is immense and I don't wanna give too much away but, again it puts you on the end of your seat, and the logic of the last book is questioned which I thought was refreshing. A dilema is left though when the book finishes which it's safe to assume the next book will cover. It wasn't predictable (I mean, it was obvious what part of Grace's problem was/what it was similar to, but there was no way anyone could predict the end revelation.) If I loved, loved, loved Shiver then I loved, loved, loved, loved, loved this! So stop reading reviews and buy it! :)
I was cold, I had a handful of snow, and I was human. July 21, 2010
Doha (London, UK)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
What can I say? I have waited for this book for SO LONG (the worst part of the fangirl job-description), and it made its way across the Atlantic for me, and I've read it and I love it and I have no idea how to a) start this review, or b) write it without spoiling it for everybody. For everyone who is waiting for this book, and everyone who loved Shiver, and everyone who loves Sam and Grace, and everyone who was so ready to cry their eyes out at the end of the previous book - you won't be disappointed. You really really won't.
After Shiver, I admit I was a little bit doubtful about where else this story would or could go, how it wouldn't be repeat of it but in reverse - I had faith in Maggie (even though I thought Lament was a little shaky), but judging from Shiver, I couldn't see where this was set up to go. In fact, it was a while before Maggie revealed it HAD a sequel (and the SEQUEL had a sequel).
Linger takes a step up from Shiver and really works its momentum, introducing two new first-person narrative voices in addition to Grace and Sam. We've already met prickly and spunky Isabel, and now we meet Cole, a new wolf - and a complicated jerk - creating an ambitious four-way narrative.
Can I take a moment to do some Isabel-fangirling? How awesome is she? The girl's a...not a nice person, but totally honest with it...and actually, it turns out she's not such a...not-nice person after all, but she would rather have you think that she is. Grace's history gives her character depth and complexity, but with Isabel, it's her personality. It was skilful contrast at its best, and the reason why you could laugh your way through so much of it.
Grace: What are you feeding them?
Isabel: Babies.
This. This is why I really like Isabel. I like tough girls in fiction: the ones that give no quarter but secretly have hearts in places where they hope nobody will ever discover them. I noticed several times how the description of her expressions were telling you...she looked `inadvertently cruel', she had a smile that `always looked like a smirk', her `sheer insensitivity'. In some ways you feel like she has all the appearance of a, er, not-nice person without any real evidence that she actually is one.
You know what? I want to be FRIENDS with Isabel, the girl makes me laugh like a chimney-sweep on drugs. BE MY FRIEND, ISABEL.
You know what else? Even though it was all of the things Shiver was - lyrical and quiet and a necklace of moments - it was also really funny. I laughed to myself a LOT (on the bus, as usual), even at the most serious parts - Isabel's a magic ingredient. And this is another thing that was just great about Linger. A writer with less intuition would hamstring themselves by taking it all too seriously - boys who turn into wolves, wolves who turn into boys, girls who love them...it can all get very angsty very quickly - or it can go Twilight - but it doesn't.
It's not that it's `real' or realistic - I mean, hello, it's about werewolves, and werewolves somewhat lack ecological validity - but what is at the core of it is its honesty. The characters are far from perfect - they might be self-involved jerks, but they are unflinchingly honest with it. This is why you can love them - they never pretend to be anything else, not in their own heads. And that's true for every one of the main characters - their narratives burn with it. You can love them because you can be them.
In other books, first-person narratives often suffer a loss of quality because...I think the best way I can describe it is to go a little academic and talk about something called `social desirability distortion', which is jargonese for when people make themselves appear how they think they ought to be, rather than how they truly are. Writers are serial perpetrators where this is concerned; with or without realising it, characters are idealised and `tidied up' - even their flaws and inconsistencies.
Live a little or live a lot, you know the things you do, say or think aren't always consonant with each other: consistency is a goal and a work in progress, it rarely truly exists in a person as completely as a lot of books would have you believe. So much depends not only on the person you are, but on the situation, the different internal pressures that might make you react in different ways to the same situation - there are so many variables, so many things, that even your inconsistencies must lack consistency, and `the person you are' is as much a sum of your contradictions as anything else.
These four - Sam, Grace, Isabel and Cole - they are so different, and yet in all their differences, they remain steadfastly honest characters, and so earnestly human. And at its heart, I feel like this is what this whole story comes down to: not just staying human, but *being* human - even when you don't want to be, even if it kills you.
On finishing this book...I feel very tired and very sad, and about a hundred years old. I wonder if anyone will be able to read this without it sharpening any pain or grief or loss they might have felt in their own lives. Linger is like a song, aching and wistful and beautiful. It happened that I was finishing the book off to the soundtrack of someone playing `Memory` from Andrew Lloyd Webber's `Cats' on their piano, and it's become woven into my memory of it, its theme.
And you know what? It's perfect.
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This review was originally written for therockpool (dot) wordpress (dot) com. If you liked it, head over and enjoy it with all its links and footnotes. Because footnotes are awesome.
Linger September 3, 2010
Mazzie
Brought this book for my 15 year old daughter and she could not wait to read it after reading the first one "Shiver"..
Was a good book and she had read it in 5 hours. MUST BE A GOOD READ....
Linger leaves you wanting more! August 24, 2010
Mrs. M. C. Lewis (UK)
I couldn't wait for this book to come out. After reading Shiver I was desperate to find out what would happen next for Sam and Grace. Would Sam stay human, would they finally get their happily ever after? Linger takes you along on their emotional rollercoaster of a romance, just as you start to think they are going to get their happy ending the story takes another unexpected twist. The story was so compelling that I couldn't put it down and I read the entire book in one day, and the ending...wow I did't expect that. I will be eagerly awaiting the next installment 'Forever'.Linger
Great Sequel! August 21, 2010
Nichola
Loved both books. Had a great storyline, interesting characters, and is a book I'd definitely recommend!
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