Title: Immortal BelovedAuthor: Cate TiernanPublisher: Little Brown and CompanyPublish Date: 07 September 2010Pages: 407ISBN: 978-0-316-03591-0Source: BoughtGenre: Young Adult, ParanormalSeries: Immortal BelovedOther books in series: Darkness Falls, Eternally Yours (06 November 2012)Nastasya has spent the last century living as a spoiled, drugged-out party girl. She feels nothing and cares for no one. But when she witnesses her best friend, a Dark Immortal, torture a human, she realizes something's got to change. She seeks refuge at a rehab for wayward immortals, where she meets the gorgeous, undeniably sexy Reyn, who seems inexplicably linked to her past.
Nastasya finally begins to deal with life, and even feels safe--until the night she learns that someone wants her dead.
What do you live
for when you live forever? We have heard
that tag line in many stories before. This
one is different, however. Nastasya, aka Nasty or Nas, is an immortal. It starts out telling you about her and her
friends, Incy, Boz, Sratton, Cicely and Katy, and their partying in London. This wasn't different than any other night for
them. At least it started out that way. Something happened that night that woke Nas up. She realized that things that were happening
scared her. So, she did what any
rational person would do – she ran. She
knew right where she was going to go. She
had previously met River, who had a compound in West Lowing, Massachusetts for
wayward immortals.
When Nas arrives,she cannot find it because it is cloaked. At first, she doesn't think that anyone could help her on her journey to become a better person and wants to leave. She has it set in her mind even before she spent the night that she was going to leave in the morning. She meets other immortals at River Edge. Namely, Reyn, Jess, Asher, River, Solis and Nell, among others. Nas learns things at Rivers Edge that she wasn't planning on. Could this be the thing that she is looking for?
Even though I thought that this book was a slow read, it kept me captivated. It wasn't one of those books which were like a rollercoaster where they have climax after climax, problem after problem. Immortal Beloved was more subtle. There were parts of the book that were downright funny and out of place at the same time. Nas is the narrator and throughout the whole book, except for a few instances, she isn't talking with an audience, but rather relating a story that includes flashbacks into her previous experiences. It is in those instances that you really get the sense that you are reliving not only her experiences, but her her thoughts as well. "Hey, I'm just reporting it how it is, people." is what she says in one part of the book.
The cover shows a
woman, whom I presume to be Nas, with a flowing dress. The words Immortal Beloved are down the
middle of the cover and it has the color red on it. I think this cover really works for this
book. It just shows you a picture of
her, so you don’t get a real sense of who she is, but I like this cover
nonetheless. On the back cover, the tag
line reads “New name, new town, new life.”
This is representative of the life that Nas lives as an immortal.
When Nas arrives,she cannot find it because it is cloaked. At first, she doesn't think that anyone could help her on her journey to become a better person and wants to leave. She has it set in her mind even before she spent the night that she was going to leave in the morning. She meets other immortals at River Edge. Namely, Reyn, Jess, Asher, River, Solis and Nell, among others. Nas learns things at Rivers Edge that she wasn't planning on. Could this be the thing that she is looking for?
Even though I thought that this book was a slow read, it kept me captivated. It wasn't one of those books which were like a rollercoaster where they have climax after climax, problem after problem. Immortal Beloved was more subtle. There were parts of the book that were downright funny and out of place at the same time. Nas is the narrator and throughout the whole book, except for a few instances, she isn't talking with an audience, but rather relating a story that includes flashbacks into her previous experiences. It is in those instances that you really get the sense that you are reliving not only her experiences, but her her thoughts as well. "Hey, I'm just reporting it how it is, people." is what she says in one part of the book.
•Nas. She goes through an enlightening period when she is at Rivers Edge. She understands things and has new experiences and feelings. It is at Rivers Edge where she learns what is important.
•Reyn. He is trying to make his life better. That is the reason that he is at Rivers Edge. Yes, he has problems, both in the present and the past, but he is working through them.
•River. She lets wayward immortals come to her place in West Lowing, Massachusetts, where she teaches them how to be better and appreciate the things in life. She keeps asking Nas what she wants and works toward that goal.
•The teachers at Rivers Edge. They really help Nas and the other immortals learn.
•Nell. She has
some serious issues.
•Incy, Boz and
her other friends in her immortal group. In the first chapter, Nas calls them her
"gang." They want and do things that are separate from what Nas
is learning at Rivers Edge
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