It is not for people who want a cheesy love story about two teenagers who fall in love and run away together. The plot of Linger is not predictable in the slightest. However, his actions are somewhat justified as Grace leaves her parents’ house despite being severely ill, resulting in the final conflict in a hospital. For reference, Grace’s father is an extremely calm and laid back person who dislikes violence. Her parents' reactions may be even more interesting, with part of the climax including her father punching Sam in the face with a few choice words toward him. In them, characters stay fairly static and respond to situations from a set personality. This type of character development isn’t common among similar books. However, as she gets sicker and her parents refuse to let her be with Sam, she grows surprisingly angry and rebels against the pressure. Throughout the first book and half of Linger, Grace is the model student. She changes slowly, but changes grow more and more noticeable, and surprising to readers who don’t expect the depth of the development. One aspect that stood out was Grace's progression from 'perfect student' to increasingly more defiant as the book - and her illness - progress. Overall, Linger is a dramatic book with its green cover and even greener text in an unusual font. She runs off as a wolf - saving her life but leaving the agony of good-byes in her wake. Cole is forced to 're-bite' her, allowing her to shift. Meanwhile, Sam goes home to find Grace is unwell, resulting in her parents finding him in her room and kicking him out. He breaks into a house and encounters Isabel, who kisses him before he reverts to his wolf form. He was the lead singer of an extremely popular band who chose to become a wolf to lose himself. Eventually, after a bit of walking, he encounters a person curled up in the woods, not in pain, not upset, not dead but just there. He misses being with the pack of other part wolves, however being able to stay with Grace makes it better. Usually, in the cold, he would 'shift' into his wolf form, but during the first book Shiver, he and his girlfriend Grace found a cure - or so they think.

The second in the series opens with Sam enjoying a cold, wintery day. Linger, however, has a twist: Sam and Cole are not just human but also wolf, and Grace is dying. Any other story might begin with a high school or a college, where the innocent students are brought together by some tragedy, and couples form. This amazing book in a series centers on Sam, Grace, Cole, and Isabel.

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