Book: The Immortal Rules
Author: Julie Kagawa
Category: Young Adult Dystopian Fiction
Publisher: Harlequin TEEN
My hand dropped to my lips and jaw, probing my teeth where the ache had been. I drew in a quick breath. There they were. Fangs. Very long and very, very sharp. I snatched my hand back. It was true then. I really had done the unthinkable. I'd become that which I hated most in the world. A vampire. A monster - Allie
"What are you doing to me? you make me question everything I've learned, everything I know. Truths I've believed since I was a kid, gone. What's wrong with me? I shouldn't be feeling any of this. Not for a....."- Zeke
In a future world, vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.
Allie is a survivor.
She lives through the deaths of her mother, her friends, and even her own, only to rise as a being she loathes, a vampire. She then gets trained by her maker,
Kanin, to survive and kill if need be.
Allie is forced go on her own after Kanin is attacked by a vicious
vampire named Sarren.
On a road to
nowhere she sees and helps a lost boy, Caleb, who happens to belong to a group
of ragtag human survivors, one of whom is Zeke. He is the adopted son of
Jebediah Crosse, leader of the group whose mission is to find Eden, the supposed
human paradise. They sleep during
the day and travel in the dark, always ready against rabids, animal like
creatures feared by both humans and vampires.
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Against her will, Allie gets close to Zeke. But everyday that she’s with him, she
gets closer to either kissing or biting him for blood. Since vampires look human, Allie is
able to keep her identity a secret until Ruth, the girl who wants Zeke for
herself, discovers the truth. Zeke
lets Allie go but she secretly follows the group on their march towards Eden.
One night they are attacked and captured by human minions of
a vampire named Jackal who has been after Jeb for many years. Allie is too late to save everyone but
Zeke. They set out together
towards Jackal’s dominion and in the process fall deeper in love. Through many deaths and bloodshed, they
save the others except the most important one whose secret may spell the end of
vampires and rabids. A secret he
passes on to Allie right before he dies…..
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| Author Julie Kagawa |
Author Julie Kagawa has another winner in Allie
Sekemoto. From the get go, Allie
is a very strong character, even more so than Meghan chase of The Iron Fey
series, Kagawa’s other bestseller.
I know Vampire stories have been told many times over and
they mostly read the same….but this, Kagawa’s world, is very different. She makes this post apocalyptic world
filled with vampires scary yet intriguing with lots of blood and gore. Definitely a far cry from Stephenie
Meyer’s Twilight series.
Written in Allie’s perspective, this book is action packed
and perfectly paced. Boredom will
not set in as edge-of-your-seat moments are in every few pages. The romance is not too pushed, in fact
I appreciate the subtlety of its progression where the readers are given time
to breathe until almost at the end.
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I like that Allie kicks ass even before turning into a
vampire. She has a strong will and
wit that no one, not even Jeb, can break.
But while Zeke is a strong character, he is also conflicted by what he
knows as opposed to what he sees in Allie as a person, a vampire and the person
he loves. It is interesting to
read them go through I should and I shouldn’t moments, many of which end up
with Allie just walking away.
I can say nothing bad about this book. Julie kagawa is an amazing writer whose
consistency is much appreciated by fans like me. So pick this up along with the Iron Fey series. I’m definitely looking forward to the sequel of The Immortal
Rules: Blood of Eden.
