Book #34: Linger, by Maggie Stiefvater

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That would be m_stiefvater on livejournal.

Okay, I read fast. Particularly when I want to find out what's happening at the end of the book. "Shiver" (the first book in this trilogy) is written from two viewpoints, shifting between Grace and Sam. "Linger" is written from FOUR POV. At this rate, "Forever" is going to give me a split personality. ;)

I missed the temperature/date thing a lot. It made "Shiver" so compelling, so driven forward. Then, of course, I realized that you really don't want that in a book called "Linger". In "Linger", everything kind of hovers for 200 pages and then it all crashes together at the end when the bottom finally falls out.

I do not care for Cole. This should not surprise anyone, as I typically don't care about the white, privileged, genius, daddy-issues ridden, "oh, I have so many problems I think I'll kill myself", dude. He's probably the most vampiristic werewolf I've ever come across. Waaaaaaay too emoteen for me. (And I'll admit to feeling slightly cheated that he's not ACTUALLY CANADIAN!)

Isabel is kind of my hero, but I miss Olivia a lot. I hope she comes back in Forever.

As for Sam and Grace....oh, that HURT. I think it's kind of cool that Maggie never concealed the end of the book. We, the readers (and not the BLOG readers), have always known that Grace is going to shift...we just didn't know HOW and under what circumstances. And the ramifications of Grace's shift change the whole scope of the series (AGAIN), in a way that's cool enough that I almost don't mind how it made Cole inescapable.

As for Grace's parents (who, for some reason, have always been the most fascinating aspect of the book for me), well, we've always known they are terrible parents. I said in my review of "Shiver" that I thought it was kind of neat that their complete ineptitude and negligence (WHICH NEARLY KILLED HER), lead to her being "saved" from the were-curse. And of course now we've discovered that they haven't saved her, but in fact made it WORSE. They were especially interesting in this book because while I could see with their point of view (and might have agreed with them under other circumstances), their complete ignorance of the situation was JUST INFURIATING.

I really, really love the unfolding medical-ness of being a werewolf, particularly the new parts of the shift being a self defense response to the disease and not the disease itself. It's just so wonderfully ORIGINAL.

Also, this book was written in green ink. Which was a bit distracting. But also cool.

8.5/10, even though Cole was practically a vampire. ;)

Comments

[poseiwriting.livejournal.com]

I've seen a LOT of reviews for this book. I heart yours the most though. :) I also love the medical-ness and had to remind myself at times that Cole was NOT a emoteen vampire.

Also the green ink was kind of awesome. I didn't even realize my copy of Shiver was written in dark blue ink until I read Linger. :)

~P~

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I borrowed Shiver from the library, so I couldn't go back and check. If Forever is written in Orange, it could be very distracting. ;)

[poseiwriting.livejournal.com]

I hoping for red. I could deal with red. :)