Now that she is on the verge of turning eighteen, they make every effort to show their disapproval and keep them apart. After having spent the majority of Grace’s life absent and uninvolved, Grace’s parents show concern over her deepening relationship with Sam.
In addition, Grace has developed an unlikely friendship, if you can call it that, with Isabel, the sister of a boy who became a werewolf in Shiver but died of the same cure that saved Sam’s life.īut it isn’t meant to last, and complications arise. Grace and Sam now enjoy an idyllic love, teetering on the border of adulthood and with it, the impending question of their future plans after Grace graduates from high school. Linger starts after the events of Shiver, which ended with Sam being cured of his lycanthropy through unlikely means. Ironically, instead of the lasting trauma you’d expect from such a violent, childhood attack, she developed a lifelong fascination with wolves. In Shiver, we learned that Grace was attacked by a pack of werewolves as a child but never became one herself. Eventually, they become unable to change back to their human shape and in fact, if they spend over a decade in their wolf shape without changing back, they die. So instead of taking the warm temperatures of spring thaw to trigger the change to human form, they eventually need the scorching heat of summer. Unfortunately, the older a werewolf gets, the more extreme a temperature change is needed to trigger the shift and the longer they spend in their wolf form. It brings a whole new meaning to developing a heavy coat of fur to guard against the cold. In the colder seasons like winter, they become wolves. In the warmer seasons like summer, they take human form. The shift between human to animal and vice versa is triggered by temperature changes. In the world depicted by Shiver and Linger, werewolves are the result of a virus. Despite my issues with the book, however, I liked the prose and was curious to see how you intended to continue the love story of Grace and Sam in Linger since I could easily see Shiver as a standalone novel. In the end, I decided it was more accurate to describe Shiver as Twilight for the werewolf crowd. Since Blood and Chocolate is one of my favorite books, I eagerly picked your first foray into the werewolf YA arena. When Shiver came out last year, it was touted as Blood and Chocolate meets The Time Traveler’s Wife. Jia C+ Reviews family relationships / First-Person / Minnesota / shapeshifters / Young-Adult 5 Comments
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