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Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2)
by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
by Maggie Stiefvater (Goodreads Author)
Adi (Reading in the Windowseat)'s review
bookshelves: 2010-read-list, own-on-paper, genre-romance, class-young-adult, genre-paranormal, uncompromising-alpha-males
Aug 21, 10
bookshelves: 2010-read-list, own-on-paper, genre-romance, class-young-adult, genre-paranormal, uncompromising-alpha-males
Recommended for:
All Dark Divine fans
Read from August 13 to 22, 2010 — I own a copy, read count: 1
Heartbreaking and yet exquisitely tender. The second installment to the Shiver series is darker, sassier and more challenging in its essence. The Shiver fans would not be disappointed.
Though I love Sam and Grace, in this book a new intriguing character is intoduced - one Cole St. Clair, who brings insolence and crudeness to the story in the beginning, but develops quite interestingly as the reading progresses. For one thing, the burning intensity between him and Isabel is one very amusing new addition to the story of the wolves from Mercy falls.
I took my time reading this book, because I cannot easily handle so much bad stuff happening to the characters all the time, but I loved every minute of it. Maggie Stiefvater's writing style is more poetry than prose and it transported me into cold winters while I was dying from all the hot summer days. It's fantastic!
Plot - 4 stars
Characters - 5 stars
Language - 5 stars
Though I love Sam and Grace, in this book a new intriguing character is intoduced - one Cole St. Clair, who brings insolence and crudeness to the story in the beginning, but develops quite interestingly as the reading progresses. For one thing, the burning intensity between him and Isabel is one very amusing new addition to the story of the wolves from Mercy falls.
I took my time reading this book, because I cannot easily handle so much bad stuff happening to the characters all the time, but I loved every minute of it. Maggie Stiefvater's writing style is more poetry than prose and it transported me into cold winters while I was dying from all the hot summer days. It's fantastic!
Plot - 4 stars
Characters - 5 stars
Language - 5 stars
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Quotes Adi (Reading in the Windowseat) Liked
“This is a love story. I never knew there were so many kinds of love or that love could make people do so many different things.
I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I never knew there were so many different ways to say goodbye.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and I've made my wish.
I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“One thousand ways to say good-bye
One thousands ways to cry
One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside
I say good-bye good-bye good-bye
I shout it out so loud
Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
One thousands ways to cry
One thousand ways to hang your hat before you go outside
I say good-bye good-bye good-bye
I shout it out so loud
Cause the next time that I find my voice I might not remember how.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“I walk through the seasons and always the birds
are singing and screaming and keening for love
When you're with me it seems so absurd
that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
are singing and screaming and keening for love
When you're with me it seems so absurd
that I should be jealous of the jay and the dove.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“Oh my God. What in—”
I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked.
“Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked.
“Mom,” Isabel snapped, interrupting. “Do you mind not staring? It’s totally perv.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“The entire room was so yellow that it looked like the sun had thrown up on the walls and wiped its mouth afterward on the dresser and curtains.
---Cole”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
---Cole”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out."
"Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
"Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“All these perfect days, made of glass
Put on the shelf where they can cast
perfect shadows that stretch and grow
on the imperfect days down below.
... perfect shadows that shift and glow...
... perfect shadows that shift and grow..."
"Sam singing on page 256 of Linger.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
Put on the shelf where they can cast
perfect shadows that stretch and grow
on the imperfect days down below.
... perfect shadows that shift and glow...
... perfect shadows that shift and grow..."
"Sam singing on page 256 of Linger.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“I was suddenly overwhelmed by what an incredible person this boy was, standing in front of me, and by the fact that he was mine and I was his.
"Right now," Sam said - and I saw that he held the invoice for today's studio time in his hand, folded into a bird with sun-washed wings - "it's hard to imagine that it is raining anewhere in the world."
"From Linger, page 258”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
"Right now," Sam said - and I saw that he held the invoice for today's studio time in his hand, folded into a bird with sun-washed wings - "it's hard to imagine that it is raining anewhere in the world."
"From Linger, page 258”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“I considered calling Grace to ask her what I should say to a reticent suicidal werewolf, but I'd left my phone somewhere. Car, maybe.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“Sometimes, your eyes see something your brain doesn't. You pick up a nmewspaper and yourhead gives you a phrase that you didn't consciously read yet. You walk into a room and you realize something's out of place before you've bothered to properly look.
I felt that happening now."
"Sam's thoughts on page 304 of Linger.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
I felt that happening now."
"Sam's thoughts on page 304 of Linger.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
“I had this feeling that he and I , in this moment, were a car crash, and instead of putting on the brakes, I was hitting the accelerator.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
― Maggie Stiefvater, Linger
Reading Progress
| 08/13/2010 | page 196 |
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47.0% | "Love it so far. It's going a bit bad for Sam & Grace, but love the new wolf - Cole, and his dynamic relationship with Isabel" |
