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sunflower7skull's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.5
It was fine. I have no particularly strong feelings about it.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Torture, Abandonment, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Physical abuse, Animal death, Violence, Death, Gore, and Murder
bamfling's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood
Moderate: Violence
Minor: Death
keiriofthesands's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
AMAZING BOOK!!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gun violence, Violence, Body horror, Physical abuse, Death, Gore, Grief, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, and Murder
kassidyreads's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Violence and Death
Moderate: Child abuse, Animal death, and Blood
Minor: Torture and Death of parent
tizi_reads's review against another edition
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood and Death
Moderate: Death of parent and Gun violence
monicalaurette's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Vampires. Forbidden love. Dystopian-esque world. Julie Kagawa’s writing. Count me in!
This book has been in my TBR and on my shelf for a while now and I don’t understand how I just now got around to reading it.
I’m a fan of the vampire, I won’t deny this fact. I haven’t read too many books with vampires in them either, but I have to say that this is one of my favorite interpretations of vampires and how they can integrate with our world. I liked how the whole ‘vampire veganism’ aspect was in a sense ignored in this story too as just something that won’t work. The other vampire stories that I’ve read have either had the vampire eat only animal blood or have the blood source only be blood bags of unknown origin.
Seeing a vampire being a blood-sucking vampire just because that’s what they are was really great to see in my opinion. I really liked the character of Allison and how (sorry if this is a spoiler but it’s also in the summary) she turned into a vampire so early on in the book. So it wasn’t she was constantly fighting against vampires for most of the story, but fighting against herself. How she never really left her Fringe life as a vamp because she was still fighting off hunger and self-preservation.
“Immortality is a lonely road.”
I gave The Immortal Rules 4 stars. While I loved the way that vampires are shown in this book and the story was interesting to me and hooked me in, I felt that some of the aspects of the story line were a little predictable and left me wanting a new and different twist by the end. But, that all being said I will be getting the other two books soon so that I can finish this story!
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood and Death
Moderate: Violence, Physical abuse, and Child abuse
Minor: Physical abuse
sabrinz's review
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
It has been years since I've read this book. But now that I finally also have book 2 and 3 it was time to re-read this one so I could get started on the rest of the story.
Reading the book now, I got the faint association with The Walking Dead; especially once Allie leaves New Covington.
But from the start: After a deadly virus (Red Lung) somehow spread around the world, vampires came forward an offered humans their protection from rabids (some sort of bloodhungry zombie vampires that turn more or less everyone they bite into one of them). This protection however looks more like slavery and so Allie, unregistered human, ekes out her live scavanging, begging and stealing in the Fringes (the suburbs of the vampire city New Covington).
However, one day, she and her crew are caught by a strom that draws the rabids close and they are attacked. Allie fights them off as best as she can, but she is fatally wounded and would have died if not for a vampire close by who offers her a choice. Die for sure or die and become a vampire to see another night.
And thus the real story begins. Kanin, Allie's maker, teaches her everything she needs to know about being a vampire and how to defend herself.
We get to know some more information about the virus (and how humanity and vampires ended up with rabids) and which vampire helped the humans back then (it's not that hard to guess^^).
But when Kanin's past catches up with him, he and Allie are forced to flee. They are separated and Allie wanders the nights, getting further away from New Covington until she stumbled upon a small group of humans who are on their way too Eden, a city only run by humans, save from rabids and in an unknown location to vampires.
Allie joins the group as much for company as she does for blood. While she struggles with her humanity and about what type of monster she will inevitalbe be (she has to drink human blood to survive after all), Allie learns that she can still decide to be human even if she has to drink blood (and that maybe, just maybe there is a cure).
Reading the book now, I got the faint association with The Walking Dead; especially once Allie leaves New Covington.
But from the start: After a deadly virus (Red Lung) somehow spread around the world, vampires came forward an offered humans their protection from rabids (some sort of bloodhungry zombie vampires that turn more or less everyone they bite into one of them). This protection however looks more like slavery and so Allie, unregistered human, ekes out her live scavanging, begging and stealing in the Fringes (the suburbs of the vampire city New Covington).
However, one day, she and her crew are caught by a strom that draws the rabids close and they are attacked. Allie fights them off as best as she can, but she is fatally wounded and would have died if not for a vampire close by who offers her a choice. Die for sure or die and become a vampire to see another night.
And thus the real story begins. Kanin, Allie's maker, teaches her everything she needs to know about being a vampire and how to defend herself.
We get to know some more information about the virus (and how humanity and vampires ended up with rabids) and which vampire helped the humans back then (it's not that hard to guess^^).
But when Kanin's past catches up with him, he and Allie are forced to flee. They are separated and Allie wanders the nights, getting further away from New Covington until she stumbled upon a small group of humans who are on their way too Eden, a city only run by humans, save from rabids and in an unknown location to vampires.
Allie joins the group as much for company as she does for blood. While she struggles with her humanity and about what type of monster she will inevitalbe be (she has to drink human blood to survive after all), Allie learns that she can still decide to be human even if she has to drink blood (and that maybe, just maybe there is a cure).
Content Warnings
Graphic: Blood, Death, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Animal death
Minor: Death of parent and Racial slurs
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