The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin

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The Immortalists – Chloe Benjamin

Published: 01/09/2018

A free e-book from Penguin First To Read in exchange for an honest review.

This was not what I was expecting… As literary fiction it is driven forward by the characters and this left me underwhelmed most the time. The story focuses on four siblings and their various reactions to a prophecy of their death days. It brings to question destiny and if you can change the outcome or if its all self-fulfilling prophecies. Nothing is fully answered or even discussed, just briefly mentioned.

It was interesting to see the various reactions to their noted death days. Especially since we were never told how they would die it made you question did their choices lead to death or they would have died regardless. Overall though, I didn’t really care about any of the characters. The first two stories being the least interesting made it even more of a struggle. Bits and pieces were interesting but their overall lives were very boring to me. Even the side characters were rather dull and added very little to the overall story.

Something I absolutely hated, the random sexualized text. The story opens with a thirteen year old being introduced by the status of her pubic hair. Another scene adult Klara is skinny dipping and her “pubic hair blooms” before she dives in. Seriously… just why. What does women’s pubic hair have anything to do with a girl walking up steps or a woman diving into a pool.