Running from things we can’t really grasp, he and another member of his band Victor were turned by Beck, before he stopped switching back and forth and stayed wolf. The shifting back and forth doesn’t suit him, he wants to become a wolf properly. A former teen rockstar, Cole has major attitude, a chip on his shoulder and is looking for a permanent escape. The narrative changes slightly in Linger – as well as the points of view of Sam and Grace, we also get Isabel and newly created wolf Cole.

It’s Grace that’s feeling restless, feeling the call of the woods and the wolves. However, it’s Grace that isn’t feeling comfortable. It failed on Jack, but worked on Sam and he no longer changes form back into a wolf when winter arrives. It’s a couple of months after the end of Shiver and the experiment that Grace and Isabel undertook to attempt to save Sam and Jack. When Linger opens, the prologue tells us immediately which direction the novel is going to go in. ***There are some SPOILERS FOR SHIVER in this review***

It’s July before the third book is released but I couldn’t wait any longer to read Linger. I didn’t want to read the first two in a week and then have a lot of months to wait for the third book, Forever. I ordered Linger almost straight away after finishing it, but as I do sometimes, I left reading it for a while, just so I could drag out the series a bit. I really enjoyed Shiver, the first novel in the Wolves of Mercy Falls Series when I read it last year.

Shiver and linger books