Author: Gillian Shields
Title: Immortal
Rating: 4/5
Category: Fantasy and Romance
Main Theme: One step into reality can magically change lives forever.
Main Question: How does it feel to go to a completely new place?
When going to foreign places, anything can happen and sometimes the experiences in the new place can be magical or a colossal failure.
Background Information: Immortal written by Gilian Sheilds is a fantasy fiction and paranormal fiction book. This book first came out in the year of 2009 and is the first book out of a 4 series book collection. Immortal gives a tale about a young girl's journey of learning many different life lessons and how different occurrences can spark magical things in life. From being torn from reality, this young lady displays several waves of sadness, determination, and love in order to survive in the dystopian world that she lives in. Gilian Sheilds is trying to relay to the world through her 4 series of books that life can have many twists and turns.
Evie Johnson is a young girl who got a scholarship to a prestige school called Wyldcliff Abbey School for girls. From this scholarship, Evie will have to leave behind her sick grandma and her home by the sea. During Evie’s stay at Wyldcliff, she felt even more isolated than ever. Surrounded by strict teachers, arrogant students, and a cruel environment, Evie’s attitude towards coming to Wyldcliff has gotten worse. But, this soon changes as Evie started to hang out with a mysterious boy named Sebstion and started to always have hallucinations about a girl that looks like her that is surrounded by magic. Through these occurrences, Evie, with the help of her two friends, is out on a mission to find out what Evie’s true calling is and why these mysterious people keep popping up in her life. Will Evie find the answer she is looking for, or will she fall short?
Review: I would say this book was a pretty good read. Although I thought the book was kind of cheesy it actually really captivated my attention. After every chapter, I would love to see what would happen next in the story. Even though it was somewhat of a romance novel, it was actually full of fantasy elements that really brought the characters out. How Shields really incorporated a wide broad of vocabulary and sentence structures really captivates the storyline of each character. At first, when I started reading the book, it was very eye-catching and very exciting to read. But, as the book continued, it got confusing for a bit since there were some flaws in the description of what was really going on to the characters at specific moments in the book. Towards the middle, the book started to become more understandable since Shields put more explanation on what the actual situation is supposed to be. So from my experience of reading the novel is that the story sort of dragged a bit at the beginning, but then brought it together towards the middle. Personally, the way the characters were described was not that broad. It was hard for me to imagine how the characters looked because there were very few descriptions about how the characters should look like. Also, I feel like the way that Wyldcliff was described was lacking some description that could really bring in the audience like they were actually in the same shoes as the main character Evie. Other than that, the book was very entertaining to read and I can’t wait to read the next book in the series.
Even though this book had some flaws to it, it is an excellent read for readers that love fantasy novels with a hint of romance. I gave this book a 4 because there can be more detail in the way the characters were displayed and also the way the plot was made. But other than that, I would highly recommend this book to read.
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