The Immortals...Awesome Book!

           I just finished reading a book that was not only surprising, confusing, appalling, even a little gross, and it was really good. J.T. Ellison's The Immortals was just a random mystery novel I picked up at Half-Price Books one day, and I never thought I'd actually get the chance to read it until Mizzay said we had to read challenging, adult novels for our at-home reading. The best comparison I can think of would be a combination of Law and Order with your typical murder mystery novel with a few curveballs thrown at you. This books mixes murder with religion, witchcraft, sex, drugs, as well as pop-culture that makes the story even more tangible.

            I've read many mysteries, probably because they're my favorite books to read; I like figuring the plot out. This book was different though; you find out who the killer is before you're even a third of the way through the book. The exciting part in this case is just how the main character and cop, Taylor Jackson, pieces together the clues and how everything fits together. It's amazing how many small details are randomly thrown at you as you're reading and then as she figures it out, everything makes sense to you as the reader and it feels so obvious. I think Ellison did an amazing job with this book; she even went "undercover", so-to-speak and found out "cop lingo" to make the book feel more genuine which I think is really cool; it shows she was truly dedicated to this story and it shows.

            The Immortals is actually part of a series and it's the fifth book, so I think I'm going to read the first four and possibly this one again so it'll all tie together. The book is well-written enough that it isn't too confusing and you don't have to read the other books for it to make sense. I highly recommend this book, whether you're interested in mystery novels or not. It has a lot of other aspects to it that will intrigue you anyway.

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