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A review by shmarvie
The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
3.0
My feelings about this book keep bouncing back and forth between like and dislike that I’m rating it right in the middle.
Concept: great
The way it played out: not so much
While reading the prologue I was getting hyped up for this story. Four young siblings find out the days they’ll die from a fortune teller, good start. Now the book begins and it’s split in to four parts; each siblings story up to their death.
(Spoilers ahead)
Simon’s story starts and I start to really flip pages, breezing through his story. However, I was very disappointed in how cliche she went with him. I did love Robert. I was annoyed with the fact that he really started to make something of himself and yet the only reason he started making absolutely reckless decisions was because his supposed death day was coming.
Klara’s story I enjoyed too up until the end. She followed her dreams of perusing a career in magic. She started a family. Everything was peachy. Then she decides to commit suicide because it’s her death date.
(I just felt like their deaths could have been more creative. Morbid? Maybe)
Rinse and repeat my feelings about Daniels story..liked it until his death.. also O’Donoghue made me roll my eyes and why was he so close by? Just seemed far fetched..but it’s fiction after all so forgiven.
Varya’s story was the only one I truly enjoyed all the way through..maybe because her death wasn’t played out and she wasn’t stuck on her death day. She actually redeemed herself from her boring, monotonous life and started living for something.
That’s my feelings with out giving too much away.
Also:
There are some cringe worthy writing moments, for example, Varya’s mentioned pubes and Simons dislike for vagina (cabbage folds? I promise you this isn’t what gay men think of vaginas).
Concept: great
The way it played out: not so much
While reading the prologue I was getting hyped up for this story. Four young siblings find out the days they’ll die from a fortune teller, good start. Now the book begins and it’s split in to four parts; each siblings story up to their death.
(Spoilers ahead)
Simon’s story starts and I start to really flip pages, breezing through his story. However, I was very disappointed in how cliche she went with him. I did love Robert. I was annoyed with the fact that he really started to make something of himself and yet the only reason he started making absolutely reckless decisions was because his supposed death day was coming.
Klara’s story I enjoyed too up until the end. She followed her dreams of perusing a career in magic. She started a family. Everything was peachy. Then she decides to commit suicide because it’s her death date.
(I just felt like their deaths could have been more creative. Morbid? Maybe)
Rinse and repeat my feelings about Daniels story..liked it until his death.. also O’Donoghue made me roll my eyes and why was he so close by? Just seemed far fetched..but it’s fiction after all so forgiven.
Varya’s story was the only one I truly enjoyed all the way through..maybe because her death wasn’t played out and she wasn’t stuck on her death day. She actually redeemed herself from her boring, monotonous life and started living for something.
That’s my feelings with out giving too much away.
Also:
There are some cringe worthy writing moments, for example, Varya’s mentioned pubes and Simons dislike for vagina (cabbage folds? I promise you this isn’t what gay men think of vaginas).