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The Immortal Rules
by Julie Kagawa
Allie hates vampires. Allie’s friends hate vampires. Every human alive either hates vampires or are slaves to them. Then Zeke happened.
Forced with the decision of death as a human or an eternal life as a vampire, Allie chooses life. Struggling to hold onto her humanity, she tries to feed without killing, and live without feeding, but unfortunately, that’s impossible. On the run from her vampire city, she joins an interesting group of people, Zeke among them. They’re searching for a mythical land, though, as they say, every story has some truth to it. Eden, a place where only humans roam, a land in which vampires have yet to taint with their blood, with their evil.
With her ragtag team of humans, Allie finds it harder and harder to resist the temptation of blood. As the weeks go on, she wonders how long she can last before the monster within takes over…
Kagawa has blown me away again. Kagawa’s Iron Fey series was dark, there was violence, there was betrayal, but she made the world of the fey unique, beautiful, captivating. Again, Kagawa created her own world. When we all thought that the vampire concept was used up and totally run dry, Kagawa came back with something knew, something horrifying.
Allie’s world consists of humans, vampires, and Rabids, which are mutations between humans and vampires. Alike to George R.R. Martin’s “White Walkers”, those who die at the hand of a Rabid or have been bitten by one, will become one.
Kagawa’s world defies all of today’s present day buddy-buddy vampire and human ideas, shattering them, rolling them over with a monster truck, and then blowing them up with a nuke. Her characters come out strong: Allie: the vamp who wants to save her humanity; Zeke: the selfless one who believes that there’s good in everyone; Kanin: the guilty one, who has a war within himself; Jeb: the hard-ass leader that doesn’t trust easily and only knows one way – his own; Ruth: the only one who could see the truth, also the bitchy character that the MC often hates. These characters brought a number of personalities to the table, and had someone, or something that everyone could kind of connect to, in their own way.
This novel was like The Host (Stephanie Meyer) meets Blood Red Road (Moira Young) meets Dracula (Bram Stoker) meets Julie Kagawa’s imagination, ending in one gigantic story of awesomeness (if you liked any one of those titles, you’re likely to like this book… actually, if you like reading you’re likely to like this book). I can’t wait to see what Kagawa has in store for us next!
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
World Building: 5/5
Cover: 4/5
Overall: 5/5
GoodReads Rating: 4.16/5
-review by Between Printed Pages
Forced with the decision of death as a human or an eternal life as a vampire, Allie chooses life. Struggling to hold onto her humanity, she tries to feed without killing, and live without feeding, but unfortunately, that’s impossible. On the run from her vampire city, she joins an interesting group of people, Zeke among them. They’re searching for a mythical land, though, as they say, every story has some truth to it. Eden, a place where only humans roam, a land in which vampires have yet to taint with their blood, with their evil.
With her ragtag team of humans, Allie finds it harder and harder to resist the temptation of blood. As the weeks go on, she wonders how long she can last before the monster within takes over…
Kagawa has blown me away again. Kagawa’s Iron Fey series was dark, there was violence, there was betrayal, but she made the world of the fey unique, beautiful, captivating. Again, Kagawa created her own world. When we all thought that the vampire concept was used up and totally run dry, Kagawa came back with something knew, something horrifying.
Allie’s world consists of humans, vampires, and Rabids, which are mutations between humans and vampires. Alike to George R.R. Martin’s “White Walkers”, those who die at the hand of a Rabid or have been bitten by one, will become one.
Kagawa’s world defies all of today’s present day buddy-buddy vampire and human ideas, shattering them, rolling them over with a monster truck, and then blowing them up with a nuke. Her characters come out strong: Allie: the vamp who wants to save her humanity; Zeke: the selfless one who believes that there’s good in everyone; Kanin: the guilty one, who has a war within himself; Jeb: the hard-ass leader that doesn’t trust easily and only knows one way – his own; Ruth: the only one who could see the truth, also the bitchy character that the MC often hates. These characters brought a number of personalities to the table, and had someone, or something that everyone could kind of connect to, in their own way.
This novel was like The Host (Stephanie Meyer) meets Blood Red Road (Moira Young) meets Dracula (Bram Stoker) meets Julie Kagawa’s imagination, ending in one gigantic story of awesomeness (if you liked any one of those titles, you’re likely to like this book… actually, if you like reading you’re likely to like this book). I can’t wait to see what Kagawa has in store for us next!
Plot: 5/5
Characters: 5/5
World Building: 5/5
Cover: 4/5
Overall: 5/5
GoodReads Rating: 4.16/5
-review by Between Printed Pages