Linger (Chapters 13-18)

To start off, it is Sam's birthday and Grace got him a time at a recording studio so he can sing and record his own songs. His passion is really writing and singing songs and he really loved it. This is also when Sam notices that something is wrong with Grace and starts getting more concerned.

Sam has been sleeping over at Grace's house about every night now and her parents still do not know. I do not think that will go over well if and when they find out. On this particular night Sam feels that connection to the wolves as he did before. He feels like he is about to change, "The way the cold had crawled along my skin, trailing goosebumps behind it. The turn, turn,turn of my stomach, aching nausea unfurling, the slow burst of pain up my spine as it stretched according to memories of another shape" (100). Then at that same moment, Grace feels her body temper rising and she feels like she is about to shift. Sam wakes up, freaking out because Grace is screaming and he does not know whats wrong and she stanked of wolf. This is when Sam starts to worry that maybe everything is ok after all.

Thats when the parents walk in. Now, her parents are not really parents. Her mom is an artist and her dad is some business guy. They are always gone working and going to different conventions and Grace has always been resentful towards them becuase they were not really there to take care of her. So when they actully turn into real parents, like tonight, she gets angry because she feels like they have no right because they have never been there before for her.

Sam gets kicked out and told not to come around for a long time, and Grace is taken to the hospital. Sam decided to go to Beck's house and thats when he notices Isabel is there with Cole. Cole seems to be going to Isabel when he turns back into human which tell me that there is something there and he trusts her. Isabel also lies to Sam about knowing Cole. Isabel goes to check on Cole and they start talking again. More about there lives. Tells her he lived in New York, I feel like New York is always where musicians are from http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/?front_door=true. Anyway, they talk some more, mostly about Sam's cure and Isabel askes him a key question, Aren't you afraid of losing yourself? And he replies," That's what i'm hoping for" (121).

Which got me thinking that there must be something else that was going on in his life that he wanted to get away from. It cannot just be the drugs. I am starting to think that maybe he was running away from an obligation. Like a family, maybe he has a child that he did not want to get involved with.

After Isabel leaves, Cole and Sam get to talking. There relationship is just not good. They both do not like each other for some reason. They both jsut get a bad vibe from each other. But i'm sure they are going to turn out to be great friends.



Isabel calls Grace from school and she tells her it was just some virus and a fever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fever. Which cannot be true; it had to be more that that. I think it was some reaction of her starting to turn into a wolf. But i wonder how that will happen? If she is not bitten again how can she turn into a wolf? Will that be another complication for the book? Will she end up dying? So many questions.

It switches back to Cole and he starts browsing through Sam's things. He finds out about how his parents tried to kill him in a bathtub when they thought he was possessed by the devil. He gets interrupted when Isabel calls. They each tell each other a secret. Cole doesn't want to be like his father because he is so "impressive" but thats all he tells her. Probably another factor why Cole wanted to turn. Isabel tells him her brother died. Thats when there relationship starts to spark up again. I know something will happen.

It ends with Sam and Grace still not being able to see each other. Only by talking by phone without her parents knowing. I feel bad for them. Why can't they just be together!  

Linger (Chapters 7-12)

My predictions on Isabel and Cole have come true. Cole did crash and felt like he had nothing else to live for so he turned into the wolf to forget about his past so he does not have to be Cole St. Claire (his real name) anymore. I was also right about Isabel and how she was helping the wolves out. She was throwing old meat and things out for the wolves which did not make Sam happy. I still do not know about Grace becoming a wolf because i am sure it will not happen until the very end of the book.

To start of Grace and Isabel find a dead wolf. They have no idea how it got like that. It had a nosebleed but that was it. That is the only evidence of something that was not old age of why it is dead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistaxis. I'm thinking there is going to be something going wrong with the wolves, like some sort of disease. Then a new character arrives, John Marx. I do not know if he will be a reoccurring character but the most important fact to know about him is that his sister Olivia, Graces best friend, is missing. In reality she actually turned into a wolf and Grace and Sam know that, but John does not. He says he's back in town because he got an email from Olivia, but really Grace sent it. Now i think that was a mistake and John will soon find out what is really going on.

The next part of the story Sam going back home where he would stay while he was not a wolf. This is where he felt the safest and where his family always was.



Sam then runs into Cole, where he is about to shift back into a wolf and already he has a bad feeling about him. He does not know what Beck, his sort of father, got him into. Sam tells Grace about the new wolf and says, "It made me wonder what kind of person would choose to be a wolf. They must all be crazy, Grace, every one of Beck's new wolves. Who would choose that" (74)? That tells you there Cole did it to get away from something and that Sam never liked being a wolf, and mostly everyone in the pack wanted to become a wolf to get away from something, which makes Sam different. Sam also continues to say "I don't trust him, Grace. I just feel like no good will come from these new loves" (74). I do not know what Sam does not like Cole already, I mean he barely knows him, but maybe Sam has an instinct http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instinct.

Now that last part I read Cole and Isabel have just met under unfortunate circumstances. Cole and Isabel have this werid connection and they actully do kiss, but Isabel plays it off as nothing, but I do not think that is true. I think something will happen between them. Isabel says, " I could still remember his human eyes in that wolf face; they'd looked as empty as I felt" (89). So that connection between them I think will bring them together.

Linger (Chapters 1-6)

     Going into this book i already knew the concept because I am reading the sequel to it. The book is about a young romance of a you8ng girl named Grace and a boy turns wolf named Sam, except in this book he has already found a cure to not turning into a wolf anymore and can now be with Grace forever. In this book, a new character named Cole is a new wolf. you have not heard much about him yet but you know there is something about his life. Something is going on with Grace now and she might just be turning into a wolf now, when she was younger she got bitten by a wolf and never turned. I know what your thinking, its another love story with mythical creatures and they fall in love, that is true but this story will be different, better even, and i cannot wait to finish it.

     

      The many reviews i have found for this book have been very optimistic about it. Here are some reviews of the book: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6654313-linger. When I knew what the book was going to be the first time I did not want to read another typical never can be together book, but i gave it a try and Shiver, the first book, was not what i expected. It gave it a different edge and more of a dramatic read. I was very happy and so far Linger has been just the same.

     Starting from the prologue Grace is talking about the future of the book, Saying " 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 good-bye" (2). Right there you know that she will not be around by the end of the book. Then comes Cole, the new wolf. He is running away from something you just do not know what yet, and does not want to shift back into be human. Then, there is another new character named Isabel, who's brother turned into a wolf but tragically died. It shows her looking into weird diseases and you have no idea what that is about. Each Chapter has a different narrator, It will either be  Grace, Sam, Cole, and Isabel.

  

      In Chapter 5, you learn that Cole was a famous singer in a band called NARKOTIKA and he was a drug addict that could not get off it. He was not happy and then you start to predict that he crashed and could not deal with the outcome of his actions and that's why he wanted to turn wolf http://www.soberrecovery.com/links/self-help.html. I am also starting to predict that Isabel is secretly helping the wolves, like giving them food or leaving clothes out for them, which Sam says not to do and that something mentally is happening to her. I am also predicting that Grace is going to turn into a wolf by the end of the book and then Sam will try to find a cure for her like Grace did for him. It is all going to be very sad and i feel like I am going to be frustrated with the end because I just want Grace and Sam to be together and I am just going to feel like they are prolonging the series and making it repetitive, but hopefully it will all come together.