"The Immortal Rules" AND "The Eternity Cure" by Julie Kagawa

Started June 24, 2013 - Ended June 28, 2013

The Immortal Rules

From Amazon:To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness…
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in 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 dies and becomes one of the monsters.

Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend—a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what–and who–is worth dying for…again.


I resisted this book, because I wasn't a huge fan of the "Iron Fey" series, also by Ms. Kagawa. All I can say is, "what was I thinking?!" I will hands down say I loved it. It sucked me in, chewed me up, and spit me out. I feel bad giving a YA novel a higher grade than "The Great Gatsby", but this isn't about classics vs. trash. It's about how much I enjoy a read, and how it makes me feel. So with that in mind I give "The Immortal Rules" an A.

The Eternity Cure

From Amazon:In Allison Sekemoto's world, there is one rule left: Blood calls to blood.

She has done the unthinkable: died so that might continue to live. Cast out of Eden and separated from the boy she dared to love, Allie will follow the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin, from the psychotic vampire Sarren. But when the trail leads to Allie's birthplace in New Covington, what Allie finds there will change the world forever—and possibly end human and vampire existence.

There's a new plague on the rise, a strain of the Red Lung virus that wiped out most of humanity generations ago—and this strain is deadly to humans and vampires alike. The only hope for a cure lies in the secrets Kanin carries, if Allie can get to him in time.

Allison thought that immortality was forever. But now, with eternity itself hanging in the balance, the lines between human and monster will blur even further, and Allie must face another choice she could never have imagined having to make.


Because I was completely enamored with "The Immortal Rules", I had very high hopes for "The Eternity Cure". But, as most sequels do, this one failed to deliver on the same par. I still thoroughly enjoyed it, and will most definitely return for the 3rd book (what a cliff-hanger!!), but of the 2, the first is still my favorite. I give "The Eternity Cure" a B+.








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