61. Linger - Maggie Stiefvater

2nd in the Wolves of Mercy Falls series (more to come??)
for: YA
HC $17.99
360 pgs.
Rating: 4

I've had so much going on in my life that it took waaaaay too long to finish this book. It was an interesting mesh of peoples' inner (hidden) and outer (who-cares-what-anyone thinks) feelings. And the science of possibility.

Told from four points-of-view, Grace, who was bitten by a wolf as child and is just now suffering the repurcussions, her boyfriend - and soulmate - Sam, who has been "cured" of shifting from human to wolf when it gets cold and the return to humanity as summer approaches - Isabel, the seemingly cold-hearted rich-girl sister of a brother who died trying to change is fate, and Cole, famous musician, newly changed to werewolf, by choice, to flee a life he'd created, but hated.

It's a bit slow in places, but this is more of a think-about-it book than action thriller. Lots of think-about-it, actually. Full of music and poetry and sadness, I don't know whether to sigh loudly, knowing this is the way the story ends and wondering...wondering.... or waiting for a sequel. Research time.