Hardcover, 485 pages
In a future world, vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle.
And one girl will search for the key to save humanity. Allison Sekemoto
survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and
her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.
Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. The
vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is
attacked- and given the ultimate choice. Die...or become one of the monsters.
Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she
despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal,
including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will
go mad.
Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her
city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend- a
possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the
rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.
But it isnt easy to pass for human. Especially not around
Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide
what- and who- is worth dying for.
Vampires= Sparkles+Romantic+Baseball? Read this book and
tell me how you'd like to date a vampire. :)
THE IMMORTAL RULES? EPIC!! Let me tell you this: This book
is not just any vampire or dystopian
novel. NO! This is a book with the kind of story that will keep you reading all
night with the lights on. If there’s a limit to how many times a heart could
beat, I’m probably already dead ‘cause this book got me worrying that my heart’s
beating way too fast. Even listening to Swift’s Safe and Sound couldn’t calm me
down.
First of all, I love how Julie creates the world that is both
unique and terrifying at the same time. It’s very well written and the Asian
girl,- Allison Sekemoto- as the protagonist, PERFECT! The actions and choices the cast seems genuine
if you’d ask me, and it’s as if the characters are real.
When I read this book, I pictured Daybreakers and the
rabids? Oh, that sooo Descent’s creepy creatures. As unpredictable how the
story goes as it is, I was glued to
my bed, unable to stop reading. I started to love the book right after Allie
got attacked by the rabids and were given the choice to either die or become
one of the vamps. WOAH!
Last but not least, Julie, finish the second book ASAP
alright? ‘Cause I can’t wait to get my hands on it. *Thumbs up*
- 4.5 stars
Almost perfect!
Extras
Note of Thanks
Thank you Thank you Thank you Mira Ink for the copy of The Immortal Rules!
Julie Kagawa was born in Sacramento, California. But nothing exciting really happened to her there. So, at the age of nine she and her family moved to Hawaii, which she soon discovered was inhabited by large carnivorous insects, colonies of house geckos, and frequent hurricanes. She spent much of her time in the ocean, when she wasn�t getting chased out of it by reef sharks, jellyfish, and the odd eel.
When not swimming for her life, Julie immersed herself in books, often to the chagrin of her schoolteachers, who would find she hid novels behind her Math textbooks during class. Her love of reading led her to pen some very dark and gruesome stories, complete with colored illustrations, to shock her hapless teachers. The gory tales faded with time, but the passion for writing remained, long after she graduated and was supposed to get a real job.
To pay the rent, Julie worked in different bookstores over the years, but discovered the managers frowned upon her reading the books she was supposed to be shelving. So she turned to her other passion: training animals. She worked as a professional dogtrainer for several years, dodging Chihuahua bites and overly enthusiastic Labradors, until her first book sold and she stopped training to write full-time.
Julie now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where the frequency of shark attacks are at an all time low. She lives with her husband, two obnoxious cats, one Australian Shepherd who is too smart for his own good, and the latest addition, a hyper-active Papillon puppy.
Check her out at http://juliekagawa.blogspot.
5 creative remarks:
Wow, I'm intrigued. Thanks for this stellar review, Naadir!
Oooohhh... This one doesn't sound like the typical vampire type of book. Awesome review! :D
Fara @ Tumbling In Books
That's the first time I'm seeing the trailer for The Immortal Rules and dang it's a good one! Lovely review by the way xx
Thanks for the great review, I love the trailer too!!!
What can I say? I loved this book. I was a little nervous at first. I feel like vampires have been done to death, pardon the pun, in YA but this one was fantastic! Julie Kagawa has managed to take the age old Vampire myth and blend it amazingly with the fractured future of mankind.
Allie lives in a world lost to illness and desperation. This isn't your typical YA vampire novel which has the heroine running into danger to follow her heart. Instead this is a story of survival. Allie is focused on one thing, living. When the unthinkable happens and she is faced with death, or becoming the monster she has always feared Allie chooses to become a Vampire.
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