katieinbavaria 's review for:

Immortal Consequences by I.V. Marie

3.25

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⭐️: 3.25

🌶️: 0

Thank you to NetGalley, Delacorte Press and I.V. Marie for sending me an ARC. 

I was so excited to get approved for this ARC and had every intention of reading it as quickly as possible. And then life happened and an international move plus new jobs etc and time got the best of me. But I finally found the time to start this book at the beginning of July because I wanted to have my review in before publication date. Dear reader, it’s now August 18th and has taken me over a month and a half to finish this book. Trust me in saying it wasn’t because I had other things to do. It was the book itself. 

The concept was incredibly intriguing. A school in purgatory existing to help ferry lost souls and exist in every shade of teen angst for all of eternity. Maybe this book isn’t for me, I will gladly say that. But I have been loving a lot of YA books lately so that doesn’t fit quite right. But good lord, get to the damn point. That’s how I felt through most of this book from like 35% until 85%. If I wasn’t so focused on completing this ARC, I would have DNF’d this book. 

First, 6 different POVs is a lot to track. I’m not a huge fan of that many characters inner thoughts and might have been part of the issue. Also, all of them are harboring deep, dark secrets they can’t tell anyone because bad things will happen? And like I get it. They’re 19 or whatever but they’ve been 19 for about 70 years so I don’t think that really counts anymore for the lack of rational thought. 

I wanted to care about the characters. And the romances. Wren and August have a nice slow burn but the will they/wont they felt way too dragged out and then suddenly it was on? The pacing for them felt odd. And Oliver and Emilio was also a weird pacing thing. I felt like the author wanted to do slow burn longing but only ended up giving readers frustration and confusion. 

And can someone please put Irene in therapy? For the love of god. Her constant anger and lone wolf tendencies were exhausting. Her past is hinted at but never really explained. Or maybe it was but it took too long to get there and I was already checked out. 

Overall this book had a lot of promise. And finally FINALLY in the last 8% the book got good enough to keep my attention. But not enough to make me rate it higher. Will I read the second book? Meh. Maybe. But I do hope the author works with a better editor to work on the pacing and layering. She has great ideas…the execution is just wanting.