The Last Immortal

Lady Ramillia Winmoore recounts in memoir form her life as one of the few immortal women, the search for her own identity and the struggle for her freedom.
I have to say that the book is not suitable for everyone because of the amount of trigger warnings it contains, including sexual abuse (both adult and child), incest, rape, sadomasochism, violence and I'm sure I've left some out.
That said, from the first moment I was captivated by its engaging and original plot, I felt immersed in the story of Victorian gothic horror and I empathized with characters that keep you intrigued. Of course if you do not have problems with the above mentioned TW, I recommend it to lovers of gothic horror with a touch of eroticism.

Lady Ramillia takes you on a wild ride through her life Victorian gothic horror style. My jaw was dropped the entire time, and my head was spinning with Lady Ramillia. You are given mere breadcrumbs to piece together before you’re hit with a bunch of dark turns and crazy twists you didn’t expect! Be forewarned going in that there are a lot of triggers, and as Lady Ramillia warns, "not for the faint of heart"— she means it. ⚠️ If you have any child-related triggers, step away from the book; it doesn’t deserve 1 star. It’s definitely not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. I on the other hand, will shelve this with my classics. Thank you NetGalley and BHC Press for the opportunity to read this ARC for free.

Some of the triggers include:
Assault/Murder
Animal cruelty
Blood/Gore
Cannibalism
Child SA
Child birth
Child death
BDSM
Drug use
Forced Abortion
Human Skin wearing
Incest
Mental health issues
Pedophilia
Reanimated corpse
SA
Self Harm

This book has trigger warnings and was interesting. I am very neutral on this review. I did not hate it nor love it. It was a wild. We follow the main characters life in this Victorian gothic horror style novel. An original plot with a lot of dark material. I left this book and days later am still thinking about a lot of the elements.

Once you get past the graphic depictions of mental, physical, and sexual violence, "The Last Immortal" is a story of power and redemption. Or that is to say feminine power and redemption. Gibson explores the many facets of the female psyche; the mother, the child, the ruthless survivor, and raw sexuality. Each of these personalities enables the protagonist to overcome many obstacles even death. Throughout the novel it is evident that we are dealing with an anti-hero. As the books states nothing is black and white or gray it just is. As the book comes to a close, we are forced to watch and cringe at the final corruption of our heroine. The genius of this book is unique and lives with you long after the final page.

This book has a lot of trigger warnings and violence as well as gore. When you get past all those things, the gothic elements and overall dark theme of the story is very well crafted and I enjoyed reading the adventures of the main characters. It was a wild and twisted ride, but interesting.

Thank you Netgalley, the publisher and author for the free copy of this book!

This book is a wild ride, and while my first instinct is to call it an almost coming-of-age story, that would be still fairly inaccurate. The novel – split into three books - detail different periods of the main character, Ramillia's, life as she grows into her own, stomaching revelation after revelation while going through one life-altering event after another.
It was honestly quite hard to stomach some of what she goes through, to say nothing of what her company endures, and I would encourage anyone who would like to read the book to pay attention to the list of trigger warnings included. I will not be including any of that content here, but be warned that there are moments that warrant warning and they occur repeatedly throughout the story.
On a lighter note, my favorite part of this book had to be the evolution of Ramillia as a character – this feels kind of like a cop-out as it’s what the story centers on, but it really is done in such a way as to make you feel as if you were watching a sort of metamorphosis of a young woman. Seeing her interactions with familiar – to an extent – characters as both she and the reader learned new things about them – and her! – was especially satisfying.
Overall, I enjoyed this book a lot. It’s one of those stories that I can tell will be sticking with me for a while, and I don’t doubt that I will pick it up again closer to its release so I can hopefully pick up on some details or foreshadowing that I may have otherwise overlooked.

This is not a book for everyone; it is heavy on the trigger warning and when they say this is a dark fantasy, boy do they really mean it. However, despite all of that I absolutely loved this book between the heroine and the prose (so cool that this is written like a memoir) and the plot. As a librarian, I usually get people asking me to recommend books that might make them uneasy or have some horror elements to it; this is definitely the book that I would recommend to them!