Grace and Sam are happy together and still learning to trust in their love. Beck no longer takes a human form at all. Sam has a brutal history and was raised by the wolf that infected him, Beck. Grace was bitten by the werewolves as a child but never turned. He continually tries to remind himself that he must 'believe in the cure.' He'd been infected with bacterial meningitis which had apparently cured him of the 'werewolfism.' Sam's girlfriend is Grace Brisbane. As the story opens, Sam is trying to come to terms with the fact that he's no longer a werewolf. Violence is minimal.Sam Roth is an eighteen-year-old werewolf.

There is one scene in which two characters come close to having sex but one tells the other that it would make her miserable. Rated: Mild, for some mild and moderate language, though it’s not a lot, and some references to sex that are completely off screen.

The only drawback (aside from the green ink in which it is printed - what is THAT about?) is that readers have to wait for a third book in the series. The writing is lovely poetry, music and song lyrics figure just as heavily in the second book as the first, so the whole book is lyrical and beautifully composed. The characters have room to grow and be revealed more in depth throughout the book, and the conflicts are natural, rather than forced by superficial added tensions. The stories and conflicts in Linger play out just as gradually as the stories in Shiver. His story intersects with that of Isabel, the sister of a dead werewolf from Shiver, who is now one of Grace’s close friends, and the only one (aside from Olivia) who knows about the wolves. Cole becomes a major character in Linger his history and personality gradually are revealed, and readers sympathize with him as a character.

Unfortunately for him, he still is shifting back to being a human, and he would gladly be a wolf all the time. Cole willingly became a werewolf he wanted to escape his life, and he figured that being an animal would fix his problems quite tidily. In the meantime, they are dealing with a new wolf infected by Beck. But it’s Grace’s turn to cause concern: she is sick, and it has something to do with the wolves. Now, in Linger, Sam is in human form and they feel sure he’s been cured.

They struggled with the mostly certain understanding that when Sam shifted back to a wolf, he would stay that way forever. In Shiver, the first book in the series, werewolf Sam and human Grace finally get to meet and fall in love while Sam is in his human form they had been watching each other for years while Sam was in his wolf form.

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