Linger (Chapters 42-52)

Cole breaks down and apologized for everything he has done to Victor. I really do feel bad for Cole. He has made some bad choices but he knows what he was doing was wrong and now this moment his life will be changed forever because he is going to change now.

After the burial they go back inside and Isabel is there. She takes Sam aside and starts to yell at him which I think is completely unnecessary. She starts to say that he isn't don't anything with Grace, with Cole being in a band and that he is supposed to be dead, and even for Victor dying because she told Sam the wolves were around her house. What was he supposed to do? Tell the wolves to leave? Like they would listen. She really has no right to be yelling at him. Cole has a suspicion that Isabel has feeling for Sam. I can actually see that. Maybe if Grace does end up turning into a wolf she will try something?They all go to bed and Grace and Sam finally have the talk. Nothing really gets said. Just that they both acknowledge it has something to do with her never turning. Then, an hour later she starts throwing up blood and everything goes down hill.

Her parents arrive at the hospital and the dad punches Sam and is told he has to leave the room and Cole sticks up for him and says that he deserves to be in the room and not them. Which is true, he has been there her and they have not. Isabel comes down and makes Cole figure out what is going on because he is the genius. Fortunately, he does figure it out. He says that because she never shifted, that the wolf toxin is put at bay when you shift because it is so bad for you, but if you do not shift it festers until eventually it starts to kill you, which is what is happening to Grace. So they concluded that she has to get bitten again so she can get "cured." I know it is confusing. Which by the way means that after 10 or so years Sam will also die because his wolf toxin is also festering.

So they form a plan, Isabel distracts the parents and Cole goes and infects Grace again and instantly she starts to change into the wolf she never was. While Grace is shifting Sam promises to find her again, to not forget and to not lose herself. "The girl i knew was gone, and there was only a wolf with brown eyes" (357). Then Cole makes on offer, he says that Sam can go with her and get bitten too, then they could be together, but he can't. He refuses the offer because he couldn't go through all of it again. So, with Grace and Cole as wolves Sam goes back into the hospital with accusing stares. Thinking he is helping her runaway, he has to watch out for Tom Culpeper and he is waiting until summer so he can be with Grace again. Sam makes a choice to find a cure. For Grace, Cole, himself, and even Beck. "I will find a cure. And then I will find Grace" (360).

That is the end of the book. Obviously there will be another one. I liked it. I thought it was a good read and it kept you thinking what was going to happen again. I cannot wait to read the next one.

Linger (chapters 31-41)

I have finished the book but there are to many chapters to do all the blogs so I am going to combine them all into one and just put the most important stuff into this one blog.

So starting off when Grace and Sam arrive at the recording studio, Sam has the time of his life. He cannot believe that he is actually doing this. But when he walks through the halls of different bands, he sees Cole in his band NARKOTIKA. He has no idea what to do with that. Then, at the same time Isabel meets up with Cole and she catches him trying to shift and stay wolf. When Isabel sees how hopeless he is, she tries to offer her hand at friendship. Which I think Cole really needs. While they are out, Cole reveals that he in fact was on drugs while they try to figure out why they really shift. While they are out, three teenage girls come up and recognize Cole for who he really is, Cole St. Clair. Cole is anxious because he does not know how to tell Isabel, but he does not really have to because she just doesn't care.

When Grace and Sam get home, Cole is there and him and Grace finally get to meet. Cole likes her right of the bat. While they clean the house, Grace is still sick, and she notices that she is supposed to be home now. When she gets home her parents are there and they freak out on her, but she fights back. Saying that they aren't really her parents and they cannot tell her what to do anymore. But they play the your not 18 yet card and she has to listen to them. That is when Grace decides to run away and live with Sam. So she sneaks out and never looks back.http://www.helpyourteens.com/teen_runaways.php

Sam has a realization that he actually missed the wolves. He did not miss being a wolf but he just missed the wolves in general. I think that was a stepping stone for Sam because it made him realize that being with the pack was his true family. Grace arrives at Sam and they both pretend everything is ok but they know, deep down, that it is just the opposite. Grace's parents find out that she left and her best friend Rachel tries to cover for her, she feels that it is not right for Grace to be running away and I agree with her, but i can get why Grace ran away. Her parents really do not care for her, at least they do not show it.

After that Grace and Sam arrive back at the house and see Cole talking to Tom Culpeper. He is Isabel's dad and is the one who went on a wolf shooting rampage in the first book Shiver and shot Sam. Turns out he killed another wolf, Victor, and he gives a warning to Sam saying he has to stop "feeding these things" and that he will shoot "every single wolf I can get in my sights." Cole and Sam dig up his grave.

Linger (chapters 25-30)

After Grace leaves the woods with the wolves Isabel calls and I think she knows something more than a fever is wrong with Grace, but she keeps it to herself, at least for now. Grace lost her appetite which cannot be good. I think her "symptoms" are getting a lot worse. Grace says "I looked at the pizza and tried to imagine it as food. It was amazing how a single slice of cheese and mushroom pizza lying on a plate, with oozing, greasy strings of mozzarella trailing from it, could do what a walk in the woods hadn't; make me feel utterly sick" (195). That is another clue of her trying to turn into a wolf. A walk in the woods has helped her more than eating. Then Isabel finally says the unspoken words, she says, "You know this has to do with the wolves" (197). And Grace admits that she knows that. But she also says to not tell Sam. I think she should. Yes it will be sad but maybe he could help her and keeping things from each other will not help the situation.
http://www.thefemaleview.com/keeping-secrets-in-a-relationship/

Cole and Sam meet up again and this time Cole is drunk. Which cannot be good because what if he shifts now? What will happen. Cole finally asks what Sam's problem is with him trying to stay wolf and he says," There's no meaning to life as a wolf. If you don't have memories, it's like you never existed" (201). Remember a while back when Cole found about Sam's past and how his parents tried to kill him in a bathtub? Well Cole brings that up again.

Cole makes Sam a deal saying if he stops avoiding the bathtub, Cole will stop avoiding life. Well I can already predict how this will turn out. Sam freezes up and cannot go in. Sam starts to have a flashback of his parents killing him. I cannot even imagine how that must feel. Having that memory always with you. Cole gets angry, which I don't even understand. How can he be angry? That would always be with me if my parents had done that. 

After that whole mess Cole leaves and Sam starts thinking about how he judged Beck so quickly when he infected the new wolves. He said, "I could feel my parents imperfect love running through my veins" (209).

This is really the first time we have seen that Sam fears that he judged the people he loves so quickly because of his parents. Then, Sam gets a phone call from a Angie Baranova. And turns out Cole called her. Now I'm guessing this is the girl that got pregnant and wanted to do it alone. So he screwed that up. He is supposed to be dead. Grace knows her end is coming that she even starts thinking about her death and her funeral. This is turning out to be really sad. :(

Cole wakes up after being a wolf and finds a doe lying next him, cut open by his doing. It is also still alive. This is when we start to see Cole change I think because he feels so awful that he did that and he just does not want to wake up ever again.

After Grace's parents leave she goes to Sam's house even when she is still grounded. This is when we really see the change is Grace. Before she would have stayed but for Sam she will do anything. Sam and Grace are going to the record studio today. I think this is when we will see that maybe Sam does have a bright future.

After the deer incident Cole goes home and tries to wash up. There is some blood under his fingernail that he cannot get and it really starts to bother him. Cole then starts to plan out other ways to shift then the cold because he figures out that that cannot be the only reason you shift. Cole has a flashback of a him telling Angie about killing himself and she does not really say anything helpful. Which is not what he wanted to hear. I think soon we will see a new and improved Cole.

Linger (chapters 19-24)

Sam still does not believe in his cure, He still winces when a blast of old air comes, and he still worries that he will change. That is one of Sam's problems I think. Him not believing that something good can actually happen to him and he can just be happy. Sam ends up with Cole again at the house. I still do not understand why they don't like each other. They barely no one another. That tension is still there but I think they both try to ignore it. "Beck picked him. I would not hate him. I would not" (154). Sam thinks this when he ask Cole about being wolf. He really had a lot respect for Beck to not second guess his decisions.

Cole is a different story. I don't think he respected anybody. Because if he did, then why does he so badly want to stay wolf. I actually think that is one of the factors of why Sam and Cole do not like each other. It is because they both want completely different things when it comes to being a wolf. Cole has a flashback and I found out that Cole was dating one of his band mate named Victor's sister and got her pregnant, but it turns out she would rather "go at it alone" so he just left. http://www.singleparentcenter.net/. I wonder if Victor will turn up again later on. Maybe he turned wolf too. And if he did are Victor and Cole still friends?

Grace and her mom have another talk about Sam and hers relationship. I do not really understand why the parents have such a problem with Sam. They don't even know him and they really have no right to just judge him like that. Maybe it is serious? The parents can't tell Grace how she feels, but i know Grace will fight her parents to be with Sam.

Sam goes to check on Cole again. And it turns out i was right about Victor. He did change with Cole. Sam walks in a finds Cole with Victor and apparently Victor cannot stay human or wolf. He keeps switching back and forth. Which makes me think that maybe it is not the cold that makes you shift, it is something else that your brain reacts to when it thinks it is cold. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain.

Sam has no idea what is going on with Victor. I think Cole feels guilty for this too because i guess he made Victor or at least talked Victor into becoming a wolf with him. Cole does not believe that it is the cold that makes you shift either. That is it something in the brain chemistry. Cole really bothers me actually. He just can't be nice or just be friendly. It always has to be about him. Maybe with the help of Isabel things can be different for him. I hope so. Otherwise he will be alone for good.

Grace goes into the woods and feels "at home." So the wolf gene must somehow being coming back, which also proves that it can't just be the cold that makes you turn but it is something in the brain chemistry. When Grace goes into the woods she meets with the wolves and just sits with them, and they can somehow know that she is not quite human either. They sit down with her too. It really is starting to worry me because i will just feel so bad for Sam who tried so hard to be human wit Grace. Grace quotes."Just under my skin, something stretched and strained. My body felt like a battleground for an invisible war...I wondered how much time I had" (186).

So far, this book has been pretty busy. So much stuff is happening and I have no idea what will happen at the end. I can only guess, and I hope my guess of Grace becoming wolf is wrong.