Release Date: July 13th, 2010
Age Group: Young Adult
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Source: Bought
Overall: 3 Monkeys
Interest: Series, Werewolves
Categories: Werewolves, Paranormal, Romance
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Summary:the longing.
Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.
the loss.
Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being human.
the linger.
For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life is a constant struggle between two forces -- wolf and human -- with love bearing its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough?
My Opinion:
I read Shiver a few years ago, I don't know what took me so long to continue reading this series.
While I loved Shiver, I only liked Linger. I was expecting something different, something with a little more action thrown into the story.
Linger is purely a character driven book. It's all about what's happening to Grace, with a bit of a side story starring Isabelle and a new wolf, Cole. To be honest, I enjoyed Cole's and Isabelle's interactions more than Grace's and Sam's. They were more spicy, more dramatic. Grace and Sam's story fell a little flat to me in this book.
Throughout it, Grace becomes seriously ill, and it's not until the last few chapters that we're told what's happening. And it's in those same chapters that a solution to her problem comes along. I just wish Maggie would've developed her illness differently, and also how it affected everyone around her.
I also think that Isabelle's dad, Tom, could be turned into a nice villain, which is what this story is lacking. (Not a villain in a purely evil sense, just an antagonist strong enough to carry some drama into the mix.)
Linger is a very sweet book, full of romantic moments, but it just didn't cut it for me, action wise. I have Forever waiting on my shelf; I'll see if I like it soon.
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Shiver
Linger
Forever
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Spoiler Alert. If you have not read Shiver or Linger, there may be spoilers ahead.
Publisher: Scholastic Press (July 12, 2011)
ARC: 386 Pages
Series: The Wolves of Mercy Falls #3 (My Reviews of
Shiver and
Linger)
Genre: YA Fantasy (shifters/werewolves)
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From Goodreads.
then.
When Sam met Grace, he was a wolf and she was a girl. Eventually he found a way to become a boy, and their love moved from a curious distance to the intense closeness of shared lives.
now.
That should have been the end of their story. But Grace was not meant to stay human. Now she is the wolf. And the wolves of Mercy Falls are about to be killed in one final, spectacular hunt.
forever.
Sam would do anything for Grace. But can one boy and one love really change a hostile, predatory world? The past, the present, and the future are about to collide in one pure moment - a moment of death or life, farewell or forever.
Review by Kate
FOREVER, by Maggie Stiefvater, is the final book in
The Wolves of Mercy Falls series and what an ending it is! We last left off where Grace shifted into a wolf leaving Sam, Cole, and Isabel wondering if she will come home in the summer...
This book was incredibly bittersweet. I've loved this series since the beginning and it's all lead up to a wonderfully semi-wrapped up ending for these characters. I say semi because the ending was a bit open-ended but not a complete cliffhanger. I thought about the lives of these characters long after I finished reading and I appreciated that.
Many story lines intertwined through this book. We learn a lot more about Beck and Sam's relationship and the reason Beck bit Sam. Cole and Isabel's relationship was tumultuous at best, but darn it I love those two. The chemistry between them was electrically charged and I loved their banter. Isabel's father was in charge of the hunt for the wolves and the race to save Grace, Cole, and the other wolves from an unfair death. Sam and Grace were adorable as usual. Sam's unwavering love for Grace kept her grounded after everyone thinking he was the cause of her disappearance in the winter.
I loved getting into the mind of the wolf in this book. I don't recall there being too much of that in the previous books so I appreciated it in this one. The fight to keep some humanity while still a wolf was the most challenging for Cole, Sam, and Grace.
All these story lines built up to an amazing ending to the book and series. I look forward to more from Stiefvater in the future.
*FTC Disclosure: I received this ARC from the publisher. I do not receive payment of any kind in exchange for a review. I do not receive monetary compensation from any book links in my review. 
Release Date: August 1st, 2009
Publisher: Scholastic Audio
Age Group: Young Adult
Overall: 5 Monkeys
Source: Borrowed
Interest: Series
Other Titles in the Series: Linger (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #2),
Forever (The Wolves of Mercy Falls, #3).Summary from Goodreads: the cold.
Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf—her wolf—watches back. He feels deeply familiar to her, but she doesn't know why.
the heat.
Sam has lived two lives. As a wolf, he keeps the silent company of the girl he loves. And then, for a short time each year, he is human, never daring to talk to Grace...until now.
the shiver.
For Grace and Sam, love has always been kept at a distance. But once it's spoken, it cannot be denied. Sam must fight to stay human—and Grace must fight to keep him—even if it means taking on the scars of the past, the fragility of the present, and the impossibility of the future.
My Opinion:Why did I wait this long to read this? Well,
hear it. Everyone who's said this book is amazing was right. It has everything a reader wants in a YA book: action, romance, mystery, suspense...
I'm not going to make this long, because I'm sure most of you have read this already.
When Grace was a little girl, she was dragged to the woods by wolves and they attacked her. They bit her. But one of them, a yellow eyed wolf, saved her. And he's been watching her in silence for years. But Grace has been watching too.
So, if they bit her, why isn't she changing with the seasons, like the others?
The pace of the book was perfect, fast, but not rushed. The way Grace and Sam fall in love is the sweetest I've read in a while: the attack on Grace, something terrible, is what brings them together. He saved her, and they've had a connection ever since. How Grace talked about her wolf, Sam, and his yellow eyes, was great. It was very posessive, but it didn't cross the line and made her look crazy. She had all the right to call Sam
her wolf.
Jenna did an awesome job narrating Grace's chapters. All of Grace's emotions were transmited perfectly. Same with David, narrating Sam's chapters. Both narrators were excellent.
And Sam, oh, Sam! Why do you have to be
so sweet? With your songs about your Summer Girl, and your poems. I want a Sam of my own. Maybe I'll ask one for Christmas.
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