The Immortal Rules was an entertaining but fell short for me. While I enjoyed the worldbuilding at first, the story lost momentum once the main character left the vampire city, and the middle section felt like it dragged on. The romance didn’t work for me either, and I found myself more interested in the potential for a relationship with another character than the one that developed.

My friends know I'm a sucker for a good Vampire novel so it's no surprise that I ate this up! It was wonderful and gritty and harsh and had a super distinct division between both the vampire side and the human side. Did I mention it's face paced? Wonderful! Then again I'm a bit bias as I rather enjoy and thing by Julie Kagawa

I loved it and I cannot wait for the next book to come out; I hope we see more of Kanin there, he is becoming a firm favorite! Definitely a book I would recommend if you're looking for an entertaining, action-packed book that is also thoughtful.

The Immortal Rules is a dark and compelling paranormal novel that goes beyond your typical vampire book that you're used to. Allie is a kick-ass heroine that gives others a run for their money. She has attitude, spunk, wields a sword, and is a newly turned vampire. The writing is amazingly done and provides so much detail that the dystopian world in The Immortal Rules is created in your imagination.

Right from the first chapter I was hooked, I automatically fell for this post apocalyptic setting the Julie Kagawa created and the strong main character, Allie. The mix of the dystopian and paranormal genres is genius, and though it may have been done before, it has never been done quite like this. Aside from vampires there are also rabids, which are a more savage and animalistic version of a vampire created during the Red Lung virus, and mole men that inhabit the underground of the vampire cities. All thses creature are creepy, in a good way!

I would say that The Immortal Rules is a mixture of The Sookie Stackhouse series (Trueblood) and the Uglies series. Both great series! The vampires really remind me of the ones the Charlaine Harris created. I also think that this book on it's own is better than The Iron Fey series, I've only read the first two books but I already prefer this series. I really respect Allie as a person she wanted to live so much that she gave up what was the most precious to her, her humanity. Throughout the whole book she manages to keep a hold on it, for the most part, even though giving in to the "monster" would be the easier thing to do. She's both menatlly and physically strong. It takes quite a while for the love interest to come into play, and even then there is not much romance if you want to call it that, it's more of a friendship that could possibly lead to romance in the future. I personally think that's not important to the story at the moment, but we'll she where that leads to in the next book.

The Immortal Rules is a book that you won't want to miss! In a world where vampires rule and humans are cattle it stretches the imagination. It has tons of blood and gore and is a huge helping of awesomeness. As usual Julie Kagawa is an amazing story teller and writer, I think readers will really enjoy reading something of hers outside of the world of the Fae.

I loved Julie Kagawa's vampire books. This is the first book in the series. We meet Allison who has to pass as a human. Allie struggles with being a vampire, and she hates the vampires that stalk and kill humans. It doesn't help that she associates with humans and maybe has a strong affinitiy to one in particular. Even if you don't like vampires, this is a great series because you see Allison's struggle with what she is and where she fits in.

Julie Kagawa is a very talented author, and her books are awesome. The action and suspense is incalculable, it is very hard to wait for the next one. Her characters are well rounded and I love them all, please do not stop writing, ever!

I read about 50 pages or so of this one but just couldn't get into it and so I put it aside. I forgot all about it and probably won't try it again. Sorry.

After Twilight, I have avoided vampire books, but I couldn't resist this one. It was dark and fast-paced fun. A good read.

This is my first Julie Kagawa book, but it won’t be my last. I have gotten tired of the entire Young Adult vampire genre and delayed reading this book for years. I thought to myself, been there, done that.

I was so wrong.

Kagawa brings an entirely different plot to the many, many vampire books that have saturated the market. Is there a romance? Yes, but barely and it certainly isn’t the focus of the book. Are there vampires? Yes, of course, but although she has kept many of the standard vampire themes, the world itself is completely different.

No, I’m not going to tell you how. Spoilers are not your friend. You really will have to read it for yourself.

I will share one passage that I got a kick out of. It’s almost a throwaway part, but because I know the traditional vampire tropes, it struck me as funny.

“At one point, I stepped in something soft like mud, and looked up to see the ceiling crawling with what looked like hundreds of winged mice. I didn’t mention this to Zeke as we hurried forward, though for some bizarre reason I felt a strange kinship with the tiny grotesque creatures.”

And no, she can’t turn into a bat and fly away . . . at least not in this book.

I am a high school librarian and I really only read this book so I could discuss it with my students. I never intended to read the sequels. Well, I am now. I have to know what happens to Zeke, Ally, and the rest of the characters. Some of them I want to be sure survive and others I want to make sure DIE!

I am so glad the next two books are already published. I would hate to have to wait to find out.

This book was sent to me by NetGalley in return for an honest review.