Reviews

The Immortal Boy, by Francisco Montaña Ibañez

Only show reviews with written explanations

lkstrohecker's review against another edition

Go to review page

dark mysterious sad medium-paced

clarkso6's review

Go to review page

dark emotional hopeful sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character

3.5

Quick read. A girl in an orphanage I trying to be friends with a boy who is deemed "immortal." We see the story unfold from his life before the orphanage and her quest to get to know him.

Content Warnings

readmoreyall's review

Go to review page

4.0

Disturbing and heartbreaking and confusing — but I don’t think it’s meant to be linear or easy to understand. It will stick with you.

krissyronan's review

Go to review page

3.0

Heartbreaking story and there’s a part that made me feel sick to my stomach.

Thank you to Dreamscape Media and Libro.fm for the audiobook and to Levine Querido for the print copy.

DNF at 60% - received a physical ARC from the publisher from attending NCTE.

I tried...really hard to like this book. I love that it has the Spanish (original version) included and the diverse characters...but I could not get into the book. At all. There were no indications of the POV shifting. No background building. No character building.

I normally do not DNF books, but I did this one. I don't know if it was a translation mishap or what, but to echo another reviewer: "I'm not sure if it was trouble with following the switching perspectives or something that got lost in translation, but something about the narration that I still can't quite put my finger on made it really hard to connect to or even fully follow the narrative."

I think the book has merit, but I simply could not get into it to truly appreciate the complexities of human life it apparently presents.