A review by faileskye
The Immortality Game by Ted Cross

3.0

Very good premise, very well developed world, extremely well-developed, rounded characters. All of it just tacked on to a good, but not special plot.

The plot of this book is a chase story, our wonderful protagonist Zoya and her foil Marcus are chased through a moderately far future Russian city. This is all well and good, but the middle of it is just the same couple scenes over and over again. This is where I got frustrated. Thankfully it was saved by the well written characters. And of special note the plot device of "Oh no I have been given the skills of a super soldier, I'm scared and can't use them against bad guys" was handily avoided.

So while I was frustrated by the repetitiveness at times, Ted Cross really did a good job of subverting my expectations and making a fairly decent story. I'm afraid this book isn't one of my top, but I could be convinced to read some of his other stuff. This was, after all, his debut novel.

I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a novel version of Taken and with a female protagonist instead of Liam Neeson. And Ruskies.