The Immortal Rules

Blood of Eden, Book 1

De: Julie Kagawa

Narrado por: Therese Plummer

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 isn't 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.

©2012 Julie Kagawa (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Such potential, but...

Would you try another book from Julie Kagawa and/or Therese Plummer?

I like a strong female lead charactor, and this book started out this way. Sadly, the author didn't keep the story true to this end. After Allison's life alterning event, the author failed to have her use the powers she had, and consequently failed to kick butt like I would have thought she would. Additionally, the story developed into a semi-romance, causing the author to write other events that didn't seem to be logical (relative to the story).

overly dramatized narration

What did you like best about The Immortal Rules? What did you like least?

The plot might be OK, but the narration is to dramatic, 1.5 hrs into the story, and I listened to 1.5 hrs of the narrator making ever thing dramatic, no rest periods, just a narrator trying to be creepy and scary with her narration or her voice, she just is trying to act creepy all the time, every sentence, and paragraph becomes the same. its like look out, beware, oh shit, run, stand your ground, fight, run etc..., almost like a comic book, to much vocal drama, if it continues this way, I will die of over dramatic narration. its ruining the book..

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

Tell the narrator to read the story not dramatize every sentence, and I mean ever sentence, ever thing is not dramatic, for god's sake, save me

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Therese Plummer?

She has a good voice she just needs to tone it down. one scene out of every 15 minutes shoud be dramatized, not every scene needs to convey fear, scary, etc...

Do you think The Immortal Rules needs a follow-up book? Why or why not?

not if it continues this way, but would be a good book for follow.

Any additional comments?

Keep Theresa as the narrator but control her overly dramatic sense of drama, she even trys to dramatize a argument scene rather the focus on reading the story and dramatizing key areas, NOT THE WHOLE STORY.FORGIVE ME GOD, TOO MUCH DRAMA IN HER VOICE, NEEDS TO TONE IT DOWN.

Great book!

Loved this book. The last 5 hours really sucked me in. I had a hard time putting the mp3 player down to do other things.

I really enjoyed it, even though it says it is a young adult book, I thought it was great - I am at 35 year old woman. It was nice to have some violence but not tons of it.

I am dying to download book 2 but I have heard it ends in a cliffhanger and book 3 has not been released. I will wait for both to be available.

Good

I loved this story, my only complaint is that much of the chapters are filler and fluff. Thr filler can get boring; however, the climax and peaks in plot make up for the..."fluffiness."

loved it!

I was hooked the moment i turned it on! I have no words LOVED IT, and i have to start the second audiobook now. k bye

Vampire APOCALYPSE

If you could sum up The Immortal Rules in three words, what would they be?

Apocalypse....Unusual.....Gloomy

What did you like best about this story?

This is not like any vampire story that I have ever read. Because of that I don't love it but the developing storyline is intriguing.

This is not a happy book and the "romance" is rated G for the "young adult" audience. That is neither good nor bad, but I am normally not a fan of YA books.

Which scene was your favorite?

Any scenes with Kanin.

love the book

I've listened to alot of julie kagawa s work and I have to say i totally love this series from the first book to the last one out at this time. I'm in hopes that she will be writing more, but it's been a few years. please if you see this, WRITE more. I and others would so enjoy them.

vampire/human forbidden love, with a twist!

Any additional comments?

This vampire/almost zombie apocalypse book does all the right things, develops some complex characters, a well described dystopian world and has a strong female lead. However, it also strays from some of the key formulas in this genre which make a pleasant change.

The story is set in a post apocalyptic world with ruled by vampires and beset by "Rabids" - which are more or less zombies. Living inhabitance of post apocalyptic cities are either tied to the vampires as a food source with benefits or actively avoiding that fate as "fringe dwellers". The lead character (Allison) is such a fringe dweller, who is caught in a bad situation when scavenging and is turned into a vampire in order to save her life. The story follows her personal development (understanding and acceptance of her vampire monster self) as well as a developing love interest with a human boy. There is a back story/mystery surrounding the source of the disease that led to the apocalypse that keeps the story and the action going.

The highlight for me? Finally, a female vampire teenager and love struck human male teenager. A nice change!

The narration performance was good and the narrator a solid match for the book.

Overall, I liked Divergent, Hunger Games, Enders Game and Angelfall better than this book. But not by THAT much, which is high praise considering the hype surrounding all of those books. It delivers a good balance of action; story development and a love interest. My only complaint is that the *villains* are a bit one dimensional which is somewhat irritating.

Very pleasantly surprised. Good Book!!

I usually steer clear of young adult books, but I am glad I listened to this book. Great storyline, interesting characters which were insightfully written, and a world which develops as the the story unfolds. Was sad to see the book come to an end, and will definitely check out the next book of the series.

Finally!!

Would you consider the audio edition of The Immortal Rules to be better than the print version?

I have not read the print book, but I believe the audio version would be better. The acting and talent of the narrator (to me) made listening to the story so enjoyable! I can't imagine - just reading the book. I think I would get confused with all the different characters.

What did you like best about this story?

Original. Numerous characters who each could have their own back story. Dystopian + Vampire - two topics that were well mixed and creatively written. Story drew me in. There was a real story. There was balance between the scenery, the characters, the inner and external happiness and conflict of the people in the book. Not focused on erotica as many of the existing vampire series have - which are there own sub genre..but my intellect starves after a while w/ those books

What about Therese Plummer’s performance did you like?

I've been an audiophile practically my whole life. So I have listened to a lot of narrators. Therese Plummer was outstanding. Simply put, her ability to act out ~20 different characters (and do it WELL) made this book fantastic.ADVISE FOR WRITER: DO WHATEVER YOU NEED TO DO TO ENSURE THIS PERSON READS YOUR SERIES!!!

Any additional comments?

Hurry up!!! and get the rest of your series out :)