This was a surprisingly wonderful fun to read book. The story was engaging from the beginning and kept you turning the pages. Some twist and turns that were great to see happen and lots of what is going to happen next scenarios. Great preteen/teen book. Can't wait for book 2

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I was not a fan of this book... read the first 100ish pages and was quite bored, so I skipped around and skimmed the rest. I was still able to figure out what was going on, and I just found the story lacking overall. The characters seemed one-dimensional, and I just could not help thinking the whole thing was absurd. I'm usually very fond of these types of books, and even of cheesy romance novels, but I just couldn't get involved in this one.

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Reviewed by Bibliophile's Bestiary Blog at bibliophile-bestiary.blogspot.com

This is a romantic book with Victorian like pulls. If you have liked The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray, you will love this book. It had that kind of feel, but in modern times. Evie (love the name) is quickly drawn to Sebastian. The romance between them is sweet and loving, not sexual. The story goes between Evie and Lady Agnes' journal. While the story is easy to figure out, it is still a great read and somethings you thought would happen, change. Evie finds love, friendship and family within the walls of Wyldcliffe Abbey. It is beautifully written and a great story. I am excited to read the second installment of the book! 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.

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This book is just wonderful.Its beautifully wrought and carfully woven.The magic of this enticing gothic romance will linger after the pages turn.

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Reviewed by Bibliophile's Bestiary Blog at bibliophile-bestiary.blogspot.com

This is a romantic book with Victorian like pulls. If you have liked The Gemma Doyle Trilogy by Libba Bray, you will love this book. It had that kind of feel, but in modern times. Evie (love the name) is quickly drawn to Sebastian. The romance between them is sweet and loving, not sexual. The story goes between Evie and Lady Agnes' journal. While the story is easy to figure out, it is still a great read and somethings you thought would happen, change. Evie finds love, friendship and family within the walls of Wyldcliffe Abbey. It is beautifully written and a great story. I am excited to read the second installment of the book! 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.

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This book started off as quite promising. Gothic boarding school, mysterious past events, creepy people, etc. The beginning was really the perfect set up for what potentially could have been a fantastic book. Could have been are the key words, though.

I'm trying not to give away any spoilers ... but, while Sebastian is dark, brooding, sexy, etc. ... it seems a little unrealistic (or naive or stupid) for the main heroine to simply set aside his (rather terrible) past deeds as if they were nothing and madly fall in love with him. Further, after the sacrifices made by a certain person in the past to protect a certain object, the main heroine seems to just blithely ignore all that by practically giving said certain object away. Her teenage love, at that point, just seemed to me to be an all consuming obsession that doesn't allow any rational thought. Which made me lose all respect for her.

Finally, the ending was very rushed, and really absolutely nothing was resolved. I suppose it's set up that way in order for there to be a sequel? Either way, the ending should have been less rushed. It seemed like the author had a certain page limit on the book and just squeezed the climax into a few paragraphs.

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Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com

Evie Johnson's life can't possibly get any worse. Her beloved grandmother has taken ill. She has been living with her while her father has been serving in the military. But now, she can't go with her father, her mother is dead, and her grandmother is in a home. So with a little-known scholarship, Evie finds herself sent off to the Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies out in the moors. Evie grew up by the sea, and she can't imagine what it will be like so far removed from the water she loves.

She has to take the train to the school, and the cab driver refuses to take her all the way to the school, calling it a cursed place. In the dark cold rain, Evie struggles with her bags through the trees to the school. It's in the trees that she is hit by a dark brooding boy on horseback. She's tired, dirty, and is distraught to find her mother's photo frame broken on the ground. The mysterious boy helps gather her belongings and murmurs he will see her again.

When Evie sets her picture frame beside her bed, she's surprised to find that it's in one piece, the glass not broken at all. She begins to believe she imagined the encounter and the strange boy, but then she notices the gash on her hand, from a piece of the previously broken glass. This begins her first night at the school. And things do not get better for Evie.

She's taunted by one of her roommates, Celeste. Evie's place at the school is due to the mysterious death of Celeste's best friend. And as part of being a scholarship student, Evie must help crazy Helen Black with some of the chores after dinner. The only bright spot is the friendly gesture by one other girl, Sarah.

The mysterious boy returns, and soon Evie finds herself sneaking out after hours to meet Sebastian. He gives little information about what he does during the day, and Evie makes many requests to have him call properly at the school. The more mysterious Sebastian seems, the more intrigued Evie becomes. When Helen starts to watch over Evie and get her in trouble for sneaking out, hints of stories told to Evie by her grandmother start to make more sense.

IMMORTAL is an intriguing and dark tale that intertwines the past and the present. With glimpses into the past through a character's diary entries, Evie learns who she is and what she must do to survive and protect those around her. The story captures the reader from the first page and draws them in until the final one. There was so much mystery as well as romance throughout the entire story that it should appeal to a large audience.

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This book is a little better than alright, but far from superior. It does switch views back and forth a little between the writer of the diary and the main character Evie, but I enjoyed it. If you're reading it just for romance, it will wrench you back and forth quite often and you can't be satisfied in this book just based off that. But I enjoyed the mysteries of the past, the oddities of the present, and the question of the future this book brought. It does leave you hanging at the end a bit, but not terribly so. In my opinion, it wraps the main point of the book up too quickly since the main story line doesn't start revealing itself until far into the book leaving very little time to wrap up what needed to be developed in this book afterwords. But that doesn't mean it's boring, because it really is not.

Personally, I wouldn't buy it full price or ever hope to own it permanently (I borrowed my copy from a friend) but it's a pretty decent book overall. Barely worth my while, but it had its moments nonetheless.

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Evie Johnson, a desendant of powerful witchcraft unknown to her. This teen is sent to a boarding school after her gran can no longer take care of her. Girl meets dark, handsome mysterious boy and is swept away by the adventure of escaping the walls of the school...

I loved the way this was written. Bits of it fell out like poetry. But I found myself bored with the plot. I kept with it because I liked the idea of where it may end up. I will read the next book.

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