A review by monicalaurette
The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

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!

I really thought it would turn out in the end that Jeb was a vampire or vamp-like creature at first because of always traveling at night but then it was because of Rabid raids.
Kanin was probably my favorite character after Allie because I love an ancient vampire who is just done with everything but also trying to help the world. But I hate his son. Gave me bad vibes.
Stick will be seen again and I feel it’s either going to be as a human or maybe even a vampire. Maybe Allie will have to turn him and risk making him a Rabid.
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