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Immortal Beloved
by Cate Tiernan
Why I bought it: I stumbled upon it through a review on my tumblr dashboard from a trusted source and even though the corny title made me roll my eyes, the positive reviews convinced me in the end.
Short Spoilerfree Description: Nastasya is over 400 years old, she's an immortal and she's hanging with the wrong crowd. For the past couple of decades she's been best friends with Innocencio (or Incy), who's slowly starting to fall off the deep end. When she witnesses him breaking a man's back with his magick, she realizes she has to regain control over her life. So she takes up an offer she received about 80 years ago and flees to the USA to enter a halfway house for immortals. Here she starts a journey back to herself, back to her roots - and back into her horrible past.
What I liked: Nastasya isn't just any kind of immortal, she's a sarcastic, silly, unapologetic and self-mocking immortal and luckily she's also the first-person narrator. Even though there's not a whole lot going on in the first book - we're more or less simply introduced to the protagonists and their (horrible) pasts and presents - the book basically doesn't have a single boring page. The world from Nasty's point of view is very entertaining. Yes Nastasya is silly, and sometimes a tad too juvenile for a 400 year old, but it's not too distracting and she does have her grown-up side, too. I enjoyed Nastasya's character immensely.
What I didn't like: That Book Two wasn't available for kindle and I had to order the paperback version, which took two days to arrive and I had to start a new book in the meantime that was so good as well that I couldn't decide whether to read Book 2 of that one (available for kindle and thus promptly at hand) or Book 2 of this one first. ^^
What I thunk: This book is not at all what it sounds like, and it actually got me back into reading. Back in 2013 I had a hard time with it, since I couldn't focus on anthing for longer than 2 minutes, so reading was almost impossible. But this book cured me. I breezed through it in two days - something I hadn't done in ages - and immediately ordered Book 2. I don't have the patience for high prose, so this kind of well-written, pleasantly paced and fun read is just my kind of thing.
Short Spoilerfree Description: Nastasya is over 400 years old, she's an immortal and she's hanging with the wrong crowd. For the past couple of decades she's been best friends with Innocencio (or Incy), who's slowly starting to fall off the deep end. When she witnesses him breaking a man's back with his magick, she realizes she has to regain control over her life. So she takes up an offer she received about 80 years ago and flees to the USA to enter a halfway house for immortals. Here she starts a journey back to herself, back to her roots - and back into her horrible past.
What I liked: Nastasya isn't just any kind of immortal, she's a sarcastic, silly, unapologetic and self-mocking immortal and luckily she's also the first-person narrator. Even though there's not a whole lot going on in the first book - we're more or less simply introduced to the protagonists and their (horrible) pasts and presents - the book basically doesn't have a single boring page. The world from Nasty's point of view is very entertaining. Yes Nastasya is silly, and sometimes a tad too juvenile for a 400 year old, but it's not too distracting and she does have her grown-up side, too. I enjoyed Nastasya's character immensely.
What I didn't like: That Book Two wasn't available for kindle and I had to order the paperback version, which took two days to arrive and I had to start a new book in the meantime that was so good as well that I couldn't decide whether to read Book 2 of that one (available for kindle and thus promptly at hand) or Book 2 of this one first. ^^
What I thunk: This book is not at all what it sounds like, and it actually got me back into reading. Back in 2013 I had a hard time with it, since I couldn't focus on anthing for longer than 2 minutes, so reading was almost impossible. But this book cured me. I breezed through it in two days - something I hadn't done in ages - and immediately ordered Book 2. I don't have the patience for high prose, so this kind of well-written, pleasantly paced and fun read is just my kind of thing.