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Linger by Maggie Stiefvater

9 reviews

blizzardinsummer's review against another edition

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emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

i like this one slightly more than shiver due to my love for cole & isabel 

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sophieamreacher's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Sad, mysterious, tense. I couldn’t put it down. 

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fanboyriot's review against another edition

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challenging slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? N/A
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
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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mookayla's review against another edition

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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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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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mollyalex's review against another edition

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emotional lighthearted mysterious sad tense fast-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

3.25


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lizgriffinwords's review

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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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regent_pencil's review against another edition

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dark emotional reflective

4.25


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nofy's review against another edition

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dark sad tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • 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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