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Immortality: A Love Story by Dana Schwartz

20 reviews

gracescanlon's review

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? N/A
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Grief, Medical content, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Body horror, Death, Violence, Blood, Classism, Child death, Dementia, Gore, Misogyny, and Sexism

Moderate: Sexual content, Colonisation, Gun violence, and Alcohol

Minor: Slavery, Racism, and Lesbophobia

vaevin's review

adventurous dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Fun continuation of this alternative history world, but the writing isn’t as strong as the first. Some of the plot gets a bit hand wavey and repetitive as the author tries to wrap it up. Still an enjoyable read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death and Body horror

Moderate: Sexism, Classism, and Grief

Minor: Dementia and Mental illness

obsessivebooklover's review

dark hopeful inspiring reflective relaxing medium-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? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual content and Abortion

Moderate: Rape and Sexism

Minor: Alcohol, Death, Gun violence, Blood, Injury/Injury detail, Misogyny, Pregnancy, and Medical content

laffi's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Outing, Sexual content, Violence, Sexism, Gore, Medical content, Body horror, Miscarriage, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Animal death, Injury/Injury detail, and Blood

Moderate: Classism, Hate crime, Stalking, Chronic illness, Alcohol, and Abortion

Minor: Vomit, Infidelity, and Mental illness

teawitchontravel's review against another edition

emotional informative mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Drug abuse, Sexism, Gore, Misogyny, Outing, Sexual content, Violence, Body horror, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Gun violence, and Miscarriage

Moderate: Stalking, Alcohol, Chronic illness, Abortion, Classism, and Hate crime

Minor: Vomit, Infidelity, and Mental illness

cyberhavok's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Gore, Misogyny, Medical content, Blood, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Abortion

scrubsandbooks's review

adventurous mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

This was not as intriguing and exciting as the first book, unfortunately, though things were hella more intense for Hazel for a moment there. The chemistry between her and the love interest in this book fell a little flat despite it being wonderful in the first one. I still enjoyed reading it and there was a queer side couple that were a pleasant surprise. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Medical content

Moderate: Confinement, Injury/Injury detail, and Sexism

kassidyreads's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content

Moderate: Abortion, Blood, Gore, Sexism, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Violence and Death

ambenicole418's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This is the second and final book in The Anatomy Duology. It follows Hazel as she ends up in London after being accused of murder, where she is tasked with treating Princess Charlotte for an unknown illness. While in London, she is not only tapped to join a secret society called The Companions to the Death, but she is also reunited with an old friend.

I ended up giving both Anatomy and Immortality 4 stars, but whereas Anatomy was a high 4 stars for me, Immortality is more of a low 4 stars. Even though in the end I did still enjoy and have fun with Immortality, overall, I just felt that it was a little underwhelming. My main problem with the book is the pacing. I felt like the first half of this book dragged on for way too long, and it meant that we didn’t get to spend enough time on the most interesting plot points (exploring The Companions to the Death, Jack and Hazel finding each other again, etc.). In fact, none of these things occurred until more than half way through the book. I think that if the first half of the book was cut down, and we got to spend more time focusing and expanding on the Companions, and Jack and Hazel rebuilding their relationship, then this book could’ve been a fantastic conclusion to this duology. Instead, we spent the first half of the book with Hazel as she tries to treat Charlotte’s “illness” and watching Hazel flirt with some guy we already know she’s not gonna end up with. Like I said, I did enjoy this book for what it was, I’m glad that we got to be with Hazel and Jack again, and I liked where these characters ended up, but honestly after reading this I think I would’ve been okay with Anatomy just being a stand alone novel that had a more open ending, and the second half of this book just being turned into a novella that served to wrap up the story and answer any lingering questions. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Blood, Confinement, and Gore

Moderate: Abortion, Gun violence, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Sexism, and Violence

tiernanhunter's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Murder, Grief, Gun violence, Medical content, Medical trauma, Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Colonisation, Miscarriage, Abandonment, Misogyny, Body horror, Pregnancy, Classism, Death, Abortion, Sexism, Violence, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Racism, Domestic abuse, Police brutality, Physical abuse, and Slavery