Immortal Rules

Julie Kagawa
4 Stars
"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.

I started out this book with low expectations, I really didn't think anything good would come out of another book about Vampires I am glad I was wrong. I picked up the book because it was written by Julie Kagawa and I LOVE her Iron Fey series, so I figured I would at least give her second a series a chance. I thought it started out a bit slow in the beginning, but it slowly started to grow on me and then of course I couldn't put it down. In a society were Vampires rule over humans I was intrigued by the idea that you wouldn't always turn into a Vampire you could become a rabid and it wasn't all rainbows and immortality of the Vampires it is a life of suffering and torment living to control the demon inside and being forced to survive on human blood. When Allison was offered the choice of die or become the very thing she hated, she chose to become a vampire and Kanin was there to help her along her journey. I have to say that I thought Kanin and Allison's relationship was a nice touch, a mentor in a world where everyone is in it for themselves. When Allison was turned I couldn't see where Julie was going to have a love interest come in for her, but Zeke was perfect for her the calm to her torment. A story about self preservation, self discovery, and challenging everything you've been taught to believe, it was entertaining (though for some reason I had a sense of deja vu for the end scene). I do have one bad note though on the book I kinda felt like it was the opposite of the Iron Fey series so instead of the heroine (Meghan) being naive and believing one her love interest (Zeke)was and instead of the love interest (Ash) being detached and tormented the heroine (Allison) was, that was the only part I was a little bit annoyed with. Over all the book was awesome and I really liked it I can't wait for the second book in the series to come out and I recommend it for anyone looking for a new twist on Vampire stories.