Reviews with content warning for Animal death - Linger

I really don’t know why I continued this series. I hated the characters just as much as I did in the first book. The plot feels like it’s too much forced romance that we’re told to care about but it has nothing convincing. This series should have ended at book one honestly with how much this dragged out for no reason. The problems seem so unnecessary as if there isn’t an actual plot.

Spice Level: n/a

Angst Level: n/a

POV: Multiple, First Person

Release Date: 13, July 2010

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adventurous challenging emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes

4.0

I simultaneously can't wait to start reading the next book and am dreading it after having my heart ripped to shreds by this book. Hoping that the next book puts it back together again 🥺

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gianna89's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional sad medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix

4.75

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walkingcha0s's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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lizgriffinwords's review against another edition

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dark emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.25

Like I said for the first one, this book achieves what it set out to achieve— to be a Team Jacob alternative in a market that craved it. What this book also achieves is that sense of urgency about being a teen, where every little thing is life or death, where first love is conflated with forever love, where the concept of escapism is preferable to real life (news flash, that third part never stops, it just becomes more unobtainable.)

I do feel like Olivia dropped out of everyone’s priority somewhat suddenly. I would have expected Grace to be more concerned for her best friend / jealous & fixated on Olivia achieving what she (Grace) craved.

The intense cliffhanger ending means OF COURSE I’m picking up book 3.

TW: suicidal thoughts and threats, animal death, parental abuse (in flashbacks), medical trauma/blood

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savagekate89's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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capriqueen's review against another edition

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emotional mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

2025 reread: Shiver’s story was really self-contained. This series could’ve ended there and been completely satisfactory. It kind of feels like those tv shows that have a kind of wrap up season when they’re not sure they going to get renewed

As a result, Linger takes a while to get going. We get a new character, we get new issues and obstacles, and a new mystery about the werewolves. So it feels pretty slow, but damn it really gets going toward the end

I fucking love Isabel and Cole. Give me all the toxic hetero and fucked up character motivations. I’m psyched for them in the next two books

Grace’s parents, while clearly not winning any parenting awards, are kind of objectively in the right here. But despite that, and despite me being a grown adult, I’m fully on the side of the “but daddy I love him” teenagers here, which I think is good writing

Also, I remember there was one time I was rereading this series back in high school. And I was laying on my bed with the window open cause it was hot. And I started hearing “Sam, Sam” during a part with Sam the character, and I was like whoa this book is sucking me in, it’s like I can actually hear them calling his name. But then I realized I actually was hearing it and for a split second I thought the book was coming to life, but it was some lady outside was calling for her grandson to come inside. Crazy Stiefvater-y stuff, man

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