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    Linger (Shiver, Book 2)
    Linger (Shiver, Book 2)
    Linger (Shiver, Book 2)
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    Linger (Shiver, Book 2)

    Written by Maggie Stiefvater

    Narrated by Pierce Cravens, Emma Galvin, Dan Bittner and Jenna Lamia

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    About this audiobook

    The astonishing #1 New York Times bestseller.

    Category: Family"She grazes on grass, and she likes to say, 'Moo!' I don't think that is what a llama would do."In this favorite, whimsical rhyming riddles help Lloyd the baby llama guess what kind of animal everyone's mama really is. But it's his friend Lyn the llama that finally leads Lloyd to the answer he most longs to hear.Is your mama a llama?"An enchanting animal guessing game."-School Library Journal
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScholastic
    Release dateAug 1, 2010
    ISBN9780545238977
    Linger (Shiver, Book 2)
    Author

    Maggie Stiefvater

    After a tumultuous past as a history major, calligraphy instructor, wedding musician, technical editor, and equestrian artist, Maggie Stiefvater is now a full-time writer and New York Times bestselling author of the Shiver trilogy, The Scorpio Races, and The Raven Boys. Her debut series, the Books of Faerie, is published by Flux. Maggie lives in the middle of nowhere, Virginia, with her charmingly straight-laced husband, two kids, four neurotic dogs, and a 1973 Camaro named Loki. Follow her on Twitter at @mstiefvater, and visit her online at www.maggiestiefvater.com.

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    • 4/5
      3.5 stars. I like this book a little less than the first. The story is still interesting but with so many new narratives it became less about Grace and Sam, and more about the bigger picture which I’m sure I will come to appreciate in the third book but not so much in this one.
    • 5/5
      The thrilling second installment of The Wolves of Mercy Falls quartet more than lives up to its predecessor. A perfect combination of sinister mystery and heartfelt relationships, dappled with two new perspectives, both beautifully voice acted. I can't put these books down. Excelsior, friends, to Forever!
    • 5/5
      Great book. loved everything about it, same as I loved the first one. only question in WHERE THE HECK IS THE THIRD BOOK OF THE TRILOGY?!? I gotta get an audible membership now... or wait another month.... smh
    • 5/5
      AMAZING. Maggie Stiefvater is an amazing writer. She captures EVERY detail that puts you right in the middle of every scene.
    • 5/5
      Awesome!! You can enjoy various characters and their voices. The story makes you reaĺly feel what love is for us, I mean all of us from different perspectives. ???
    • 5/5
      Let me start off by saying that the first book in this trilogy Shiver is one of my all time favourite books. It?s my idea of the perfect read. It?s deeply romantic, tragic and haunting so ever since I turned the last page - tears silently running down my cheeks - I?ve been hungry to get my hands on Linger. This is one of my most anticipated reads of the year and it didn?t disappoint.In Shiver Sam and Grace got their happy ending. Sam?s cure worked. He stayed Sam forever shedding his wolf?s skin and everything was perfect - or so we thought. In Linger Maggie Stiefvater shakes things up again. Sam still can?t quiet believe he?s really been cured and is cautious to get hopeful about any sort of future. Plus there?s still his family, his pack, in the woods. He doesn?t miss his life as a wolf but he misses his farther figure Beck and the rest of the pack and is eagerly waiting for the warmer days when his friends will start shifting back to human form. Grace is struggling to keep a balance between Sam and her parents whilst all the while she?s keeping a dangerous secret. One that could threaten not only her relationship with Sam but her life and as time draws on she finds herself changing in ways she never could have expected?This book was amazing. I loved it. Maggie Stiefvater has a real way with words that really brings Sam and Grace?s relationship to life. Although this is a supernatural story above all it?s a love story and a tragic one at that. I love the characters especially Sam who is my ideal guy and Isabel who?s beautifully broken. The end of this book had me in tears yet again and I was desperate to give it 5 stars but had to knock it down to 4 and a half just for the fact that I really didn?t like Cole and found his chapters made me lose interest although he did redeem himself at the end of the book which raised my opinion of him a little. That really didn?t take away from the book that much for me though and now I?m counting down the days until next summer when the final instalment of this trilogy Forever comes out. Well worth the wait and highly recommended 4.5 stars.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed the different perspectives throughout this book! Great!
    • 3/5
      Grace, Sam and Isabel deal with the fallout of [book: shiver]. Sam is still trying to get used to being human instead of wolf during winter, and even bigger, the prospect of having a while human lifespan ahead of him. Grace and he cling to reach other against the mundane but powerful challenges to their relationship. Isabel, meanwhile, is grieving the loss of her brother and trying to figure out how to operate in a world with werewolves. Her chance encounters with Cole, a new werewolf with demons aplenty, are unexpectedly helpful.

      The place of this book isn't thrilling, but I liked the portrayal of relationships, romantic or other. For many YA books I struggle to see what characters see in each other, or how they relate, but in these I totally buy their pull.
    • 5/5
      Cole at Clair, please be mine
    • 5/5
      Linger was just as good as Shiver. I was always wondering what was happening to Grace, but the whole time I kind of knew what was happening to her. When the book came to an end, the impact of it all hit me like a ton of bricks. Almsot immediatly I was Googling Maggie Stiefvater's website, eager beyond reason to see if there was a third. I practically screamed when I found out there was a third. Not only that, but there's gonna be a movie for Shiver, too! If you haven't read this series yet, you NEED to!!! 
    • 5/5
      Followed right through from the first book. Awesome read, kept me turning the pages. Had romance, suspense, a little action. I honestly cannot wait for the next installment to come out. Because it left with a cliffhanger make me wanting more.
    • 4/5
      A great read that I want to read again someday
    • 4/5
      Love love loved it! Listened to it non stop. Love the cliffhanger. My only problem is Sam. I get he has issues but he just WHINES so much sometimes! I wish he'd find his balls and embrace the wolf as part of himself, not something that makes him not himself.
    • 4/5
      Aah. Some fictional worlds are just a joy to step back into. On this second visit into Mercy Falls, Maggie Stiefvater delivers a story with every bit of enchantment as Shiver. The flow of her words never ceases to amaze me.In Linger, we not only get to see through the eyes of Sam and Grace, but we get to see deeper into the mind of Isabel and what she has is going through after the events of the last book. I really ended up liking her a lot more than the first book! Also, a new character is introduced, Cole. He is one of the new wolves and has an intriguing background story all his own. It added a little kick the story---he was not the nicest of guys and had a pretty wild pre-wolf life, so it was interesting to see where his character would go in the story. Linger is full of romance and wanting, a few rolls get reversed, and some of the Shiver plotlines are brought to light and expanded on.Grace's parents were infuriating this time around. Even as a parent myself, it was hard to see their side. I mean, yeah, I would be furious to find a boy sleeping in my daughter's room, too, but then again, I have not spent her entire life doing my own thing and fully neglecting her! You have to be a pretty awful parent to not know that a boy has been sleeping in there for months in the first place! Of course, my opinion might be a little jaded because I'm rooting for Sam and Grace's love to pull thought it all!The story is once again told in alternating points of view, and while I do love that format, especially for this book, I did find that once or twice when stopping in the middle of a chapter, I had to backtrack a little to figure out who was talking. That is minor, and doesn't take away from this wonderful story at all. The ending is quite a cliffhanger, and has me absolutely crazy excited for the conclusion of this amazing story!! Forever comes out in July 2011---it's going to be a torturous year of waiting!!
    • 5/5
      Grades 7 and upTeam Jacob, listen up – this series is for you.When Grace was a young girl, she was attacked by a pack of wolves – and then mysteriously rescued by one of them. She never forgot him, always knew there was something different about this wolf. And boy, was she ever right. Sam is a werewolf. Werewolves in Stiefvater’s world change along with the seasons and the temperatures – wolves by winter, humans in late spring and summer. Grace and Sam do not relish the idea of only a few months out of the year to be together, and begin to search for a cure. Told in alternating perspectives from all the characters in the book, Shiver and Linger are romances that will linger long after you put them down. Book three of the series, Forever is due out this summer, and I can’t wait for more of Grace and Sam’s story.
    • 5/5
      This was a great storyline with so many intriguing twists.
    • 4/5
      Wowzers this had some twists and turns in it. Did NOT expect that ending. I ache for Grace and Sam. I truly want them to get their fairy-tale ending, but it seems like everyone and everything is against them. I guess I'll find out in the next book.
    • 4/5
      Since the final book in the series, Forever, comes out tomorrow (and because I’m going to a signing on Thursday!) I had to catch up on Maggie Stiefvater’s werewolf series. I’m so glad I did. This is a very good book. It does suffer a little bit from “middle syndrome” (the thing that makes the plot seem to be stalled for the majority of the book because it’s really the lull before the climax of the third part, see “Empire Strikes Back”) but it has enough going on to make it stand up on its own as well as work well to advance the story. Although Grace and Sam seemed to be in a holding pattern, character-development-wise, the work on Isabelle and Cole more than made up for it. Although I think the ‘foreshadowing’ on Cole’s secret was laid on a little thick (especially since the reader already knew the secret, and especially because nothing came of it), but his interactions with Isabelle were great, and I like the match of the two of them. They both seem to understand the other’s pain without condescension or a time table, and although they deal with it differently they still respect the other’s choices. There’s also subtle foreshadowing that there’s going to be a fight about their different approaches in the future. The major plot point is interesting. I like how there’s more exposition on how the “werewolfing” works and how the “cure” served Sam even though they didn’t quite know what they were doing. My only disappointment was that we didn’t see much of the new wolves other than Cole. Hopefully all that will be resolved in the third book, though.
    • 4/5
      I enjoyed the plot of this one more than the first, and with the additional POV's from Cole and Isabel we get a break from the floof of Grace and Sam's relationship.
      While Cole, a brand-new character, seems to have developed and grown impossibly from one moment to the next, Grace and Sam seem very stagnant - Grace seems to have even reverted a bit to, albeit a more realistic (see: immature and naive) version of a 17 year old, a really annoying and selfish teenager. She seemed very independent and self-aware in the first book but as she's become more reliant on Sam, she's seemed to lost a bit of herself and now she's exactly what her mother thinks she is. When her parents find a boy (though in pajamas) in her room in the middle of the night and call her out on it, Grace completely rebels instead of self-reflects (as you'd expect from a 17 year old and also proving her mother's worries completely legitimate) and acts like a spoiled child. Sam is supposed to be 18/19 in this and been through a lot of hell in life but, while not acting like Grace in that way, still does not act like an adult.
      Besides all that, the actual plot is very interesting with Grace starting to feel the effects of "the change" to the point where it's physically killing her along with Cole's whole character arc. It's also been riveting to see how Isabel is changing and developing as a character, now that we can see her side of the story. There are a few holes that I would like to be addressed, the biggest one being how Cole suddenly changed from a complete devil-may-care asshole to suddenly selfless and caring after his one (self-labeled) "good deed" of not sleeping with Isabel. It seemed very sudden.
      Overall, a good sequel, maybe even better than the debut. I'm excited to get through this series to see what kind of conclusion the author devises.
    • 4/5
      I don't say this often, but I think this 2nd book of the trilogy was just as strong as the 1st one. And I've decided that I'm just never going to grow up, because her parents made me absolutely crazy insane with rage. I think part of me is always going to be a 17 year-old girl...

      One more to go, but I must save it for the weekend, since once I start these books I cannot stop. Was up until midnight again reading.
    • 3/5
      This one is teens and angst and some of that is teen angst, the extreme feelings in the absence adult agency. We are caught up in Grace falling victim to both some aspect of her wolf infection and her parents sudden attempts to resume control of her life. Isabelle gets tangled up with one of the new werewolves who has managed to really snarl his own life. It's just not fun.
    • 2/5
      teen fiction; werewolf romance. Kind of rambling; new characters and twists are introduced but not resolved (must wait for part 3). The guy that read Sam's part in Shiver has been replaced by a wuss that sings (his tone is ok but his melodies are lacking). Skip this one.
    • 3/5
      I have to say I was quite frustrated with this book. The feelings of Twilight have gone for the most part, but I’ve never felt such anger toward adults since I was like 14. Anyway, the only emotion this book brought out in me was anger. I wasn’t nervous, sad, happy, nothing. The character development was slow or non existent, with the exception of Isabel. I am, however, invested in this series and in Maggie, so I’m determined to finish it.

      So there’s lots of teenage angst in this book, more-so than I would’ve expected. I really think Shiver could’ve been a standalone and it would’ve been alright.

      There’s very few details about how the wolves came about and no one seems concerned about it. As a matter of fact, there’s very little going on with the wolves in general in this book. I know it leads into Forever, but they seem forgotten, the plot was lost.

      Now, Maggie had me in a rage about Grace’s incompetent parents. It’s scary how accurate she is with their ignorance and stupidity. I was thinking of a thousand different ways I would have dealt with the Brisbanes, and NONE OF THEM WERE IN IT! They were never corrected. They were just left to drink in their righteousness and then *poof*, they’re gone. Just so angry.

      Any way, Linger leads into Forever better than Shiver did. There’s an idea about what’s going to happen in the final and/or third book (depending on how you view Sinner). I hope the ending gives some clarity and closure, because if not, I’m gonna be pissed. I’m lookin’ at you, Maggie.

      **Fun fact: Maggie narrates her character, Shelby, in the audiobook of Forever. That’s cool, huh?
    • 4/5
      I was very surprised to find myself enoying Linger more than I did Shiver. There's a heightened sense of urgency, and you can't help but feel the entire time that something is about to go very, very wrong. It was too easy, and now they're going to have to pay for the rash and foolish decisions they've made.

      I loved the new perspectives introduced, and Cole is such an intriguing character: I can't wait to read more about him. This entire story, I hope, will end up somewhere very dark, because it does seem to be heading that way. So many mistakes are being made, which creates so many knots that I can't wait to see everyone struggle to untangle.

      All in all, this is one of the best sequels I have ever read to a book that feels self-contained. It takes everything Shiver did right and amps it up a notch, adding a lingering sense of dread after every page...
    • 3/5
      How to ratchet up the teenage werewolf angst? Add rock star and shake. I enjoyed the four voices narration. Sam's singing is still a little hard to take, but it's all part of the angst.
    • 4/5
      Wow. Linger picks up right where Shiver left off. It picked up in the best way possible by making it into an even better story. It was wonderful to actually see all the characters from the first book growing along with the introduction of Cole St. Claire who I feel gave the book a new stronger male character just what it needed. If you liked Shiver then you should read Linger. I was more iffy on the whole story after reading the first book, but I'm now very excited to read the last book in the trilogy come summer. Overall I'd say if you kind of liked the first book then you will definitely like the second one more. Though I know the green text would have bothered me if I wasn't reading it on my kindle so keep that in mind.
    • 4/5
      Poetic is to Shiver as heartbreaking is to Linger. Yes, it was that amazing. It took a bit of reading to convince me that the addition of Cole's character to the cast was a good thing, but I suppose that's what the multiple point of views are for--which, for the record, I hold in high regard. The switches between the four point of views (instead of two, like in Linger's predecessor) are clean and jump from and to appropriate spots in the story, and each of the characters are really fleshed out when readers get to read their thoughts and peer through each of their eyes.

      Furthermore, Grace, Sam, Isabel, and Cole are all clearly their own people. There are no mingling of traits--yes, both Sam and Cole are musicians, but their personalities are so unique to each of them that it only emphasizes their shared musicianship. The same holds true when any of the characters are compared to another character, and that's what makes their relationships so wonderful and believable. Grace and Isabel could very well be friends in real life, if they really existed. Everyone's humanity is made clear, and that's what brings them to life.
    • 5/5
      Loved it. I was so deeply engrossed in the world of Mercy Falls that the story was over before I knew it!
    • 3/5
      This is a tricky review to write. I mean, the book was beautiful. A work of art. Again, the author has a way with words. It's a masterpiece.

      But not my kind of novel. It just moved too slowly for me. The author does a fantastic job at digging into the head and emotions of the four main characters. Their growth and development is amazing. I felt like I went on a long, painful journey. But I am still in awe with how she got into the characters heads and crafted their story lines. In the end though, I still only went, Meh, it's okay.

      Even when I read the first novel and without even reading the blurbs for the second, I knew what would happen to Grace. I kind of wish that I didn't read the second back cover, so I wouldn't know. But the author ruins it for you in the prolong and tells you what is going to happen to Grace. SO DON'T READ THE PROLONG!

      The reasons for what happens to Grace in the end though was totally not what I would have thought. And I am pleased about that. In fact, it sets up and has me quite intrigued for the next novel. I love a bit of mystery.

      So this novel is for the deep reader, the one that really likes to get into the head of a character with not a lot of action, but rather internal character anguish.
    • 4/5
      Linger was a pretty good read, not as captivating as the first but enjoyable nonetheless. We learn more about the new wolves and some things about the old wolves and dive deeper into Sam and Grace's relationship.Grace's parents start to grow weary of Sam and start to care about the daughter they leave at home to fend for herself and Grace gets ill and needs Sam. I don't want to spoil anything, but this book left me frustrating...I NEED to read the third book, I have to find out what happens to these...star-crossed(??) lovers and the new wolves that may all be sociopaths.