Format:
Paperback
Pages: 485
Publisher:
Mira Ink (imprint of Harlequin)
Series: Blood
of Eden Book 1
From Goodreads:
"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.
Review:
In a world where
vampires control everything, being Registered is the easy way to live. All you need to do is register with the
vampires and give monthly blood donations and in return you get a meal ticket
and since the vampires control all of the food in the city, a meal ticket is the
only guarantee of having enough food to eat.
Allie is an Unregistered
doing her best to survive, when she leaves the city one afternoon to look for
food she gets knocked unconscious by a shelf of food and wakes up to
darkness. In an underground tunnel
trying to make it back home, Allie comes face to face with a vampire, only he
doesn’t do what she expects, he doesn’t drain her and leave her for dead, he
talks to her and then walks away. But
this won’t be the last time she sees him.
When she
makes it back and informs the rest of her crew what she found in the ruins,
they decide it’s worth the risk to go back and get it; only they don’t make it
back. They are attacked by rabids. Rabids were once human but now they are
soulless creatures that will attack, drain and kill you without a second
thought. Allie is on the verge of death
when the vampire she met in the tunnel shows up and gives her a choice; die as
a human or live as a vampire.
As it turns
out turning into a vampire is just the beginning of Allie’s journey. After her creator Kanin prepares her with
what she needs to know they go their separate ways. Allie isn’t alone for long, she comes across
a group of people that are kind enough to take her in, but they are human and
she has to hide what she really is. But
how long can she go without revealing herself to a boy she is falling for.
The Immortal
Rules is an incredible first book in the Blood of Eden series; it’s exciting
and filled with action. Julie Kagawa
knows how to keep a readers attention from the beginning to the end. The Immortal Rules is a book that you don’t
want to pass up.
Favorite Quotes
“If the damn
bloodsuckers wanted me, they’d have to catch me first. And I wasn’t going to make it easy for them”
“Hey, what was that?” easing forward, I tried peering into the
box on tiptoe, but he shouldered me away.
“Oh, come on. I want to see the
big-spiky-ball thing.”
Rating:
