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