Reviews with content warning for Grief - 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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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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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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slow-paced

Loveable characters? Yes

4.5

Y’all know that Taylor swift lyric that says “grieving for the living”? Yeaaaah that’s this book. There’s also grieving for the dead and the lost. And there’s love too.
Isabel Culpepper has been one of my favorite fictional characters for more than a decade now, and she continues to be. This book truly does not have enough Cole and Isabel content.
And the writing is beautiful, although that really goes without saying with maggie stiefvater.

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