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Linger
by Maggie Stiefvater
After reading "Shiver", I was sad to discover how disappointed I felt when reading this book. It took me well over a month to finish it, because I simply couldn't make myself read it. The story was dragging but I would be willing to let this pass, if it wasn't for Cole, who's a new character and someone I despised with all my heart.
There are many characters in books that you can call morally grey and I'm fine with them, at times, I also find them extremely interesting, but Cole was, simply put, a bad person. In my eyes, he has no redeeming qualities and if he indeed has some, the writing wasn't enough for me to understand them and justify his actions.
I don't really know where to start with him, he's so egoistical and what he did to Sam and the bath tub was really the breaking point for me. Also, his relationship with Isabel was so cringy, because they kissed after like 10 minutes of knowing each other and I would be okay with that, if it didn't end up being this cursed romance or something like that. They developed feelings right away and I was like: "everybody needs to chill right now..."!! Generally, Cole was the biggest reason I hated this book so much and why it took me so long to finish it. Imagine my face when I saw chapters with his POV!!
Apart from him, the story was interesting but I didn't think it should be a different book whatsoever. I mean, Grace's "illness" could have progressed a lot quicker and we could jump straight from the first book to the last and still be okay with how the events unfolded. I felt like the same scene happened again and again and again, until the end, when finally Grace succumbed to the wolf inside her and that's where the book ended. I just think that the first book could have been 50 or so pages longer and the story would still be the same.
All in all, thankfully this book didn't dissuade me from reading the third installment, even though I was sure I was done with the series after this one. I'm hoping that the final book will be more action driven than this one and I'll end up reading it more easily.
There are many characters in books that you can call morally grey and I'm fine with them, at times, I also find them extremely interesting, but Cole was, simply put, a bad person. In my eyes, he has no redeeming qualities and if he indeed has some, the writing wasn't enough for me to understand them and justify his actions.
I don't really know where to start with him, he's so egoistical and what he did to Sam and the bath tub was really the breaking point for me. Also, his relationship with Isabel was so cringy, because they kissed after like 10 minutes of knowing each other and I would be okay with that, if it didn't end up being this cursed romance or something like that. They developed feelings right away and I was like: "everybody needs to chill right now..."!! Generally, Cole was the biggest reason I hated this book so much and why it took me so long to finish it. Imagine my face when I saw chapters with his POV!!
Apart from him, the story was interesting but I didn't think it should be a different book whatsoever. I mean, Grace's "illness" could have progressed a lot quicker and we could jump straight from the first book to the last and still be okay with how the events unfolded. I felt like the same scene happened again and again and again, until the end, when finally Grace succumbed to the wolf inside her and that's where the book ended. I just think that the first book could have been 50 or so pages longer and the story would still be the same.
All in all, thankfully this book didn't dissuade me from reading the third installment, even though I was sure I was done with the series after this one. I'm hoping that the final book will be more action driven than this one and I'll end up reading it more easily.