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Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

109 reviews

anitaforthewin's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Honestly I don’t get the hate for this book. I read TVD and didn’t like it at all and this is a HUGE step up from it. It was exhilarating and dark and the last page had me shook. The MCs are definitely morally gray, the way they continue to put their own desires above the lives of other people. This first book is so action packed but given how it ends, I think book 2 should be very political and I’m interested in seeing that.

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tamsterdam_reads's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

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renewed_reader's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

Unfortunately, this book wasn’t as good as I thought it would be. There were entertaining parts but the pacing was quite off toward the end. I also think two key characters were underdeveloped.

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charthegoose's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

I really enjoyed this book! It kept me hooked and I was excited to keep reading. I loved the world building and found the world Calla lives in to be a fascinating place. I also grew to love Calla Anton and August and I’m excited to see where their story goes next. I found that the plot would always continue in ways I wouldn’t expect which meant the plot twists were shocking and had me gasping out loud at times 😂 I’m not farmiar with the shakespear this books reimagines so I can’t comment on that area.
However I do feel some areas of the plot aren’t explained well or at all

for example Calla isn’t actually “calla” and invaded the princess at age 8. The book explains at the start how her eye colour is unique to those with royal blood. However when people body jump their eye colour follows them so why didn’t Callas eye colour change when she jumped?

I also felt some conclusions and loose ends were tied up quite quickly and seemed as if they came out of no where and weren’t explained very thoroughly. However I am aware there are 2 more books to come in the future so these may be explored there
Overall I really enjoyed this book and will be reading the next instalment. Everytime I picked this book up I was excited to keep reading :)

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bergha1998's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

Wow that cliffhanger, I wasn’t prepared. I found the book’s pacing to be a bit slow at points, and I Really didn’t like August as a character. But Calla and Anton were very interesting. I’m excited to see where this series goes.

Fantasy, Magic System, Romance Subplot, 1 🔥

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entropyseeker's review against another edition

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adventurous medium-paced

Loveable characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Am absolute banger of a book. It gave me everything I wanted for a fantasy novel AND I didn't have to read poorly written smut to get there. This story is drenched in the blood of kingkillers and every detail had me reading on.

The romance felt tense and and written perfectly in tune with thenmain characters, the motives and backgrounds were clear and MADE SENSE

While I expected every twist, it hit in such a satisfying way that I didn't mind. Can't wait to start the next book in the series.

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clhtdr's review against another edition

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adventurous dark tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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izzyluna's review against another edition

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adventurous dark mysterious

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

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ginamiya's review against another edition

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challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

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soryualan's review against another edition

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adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? N/A
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

I saw so many negative reviews of this book back when I bought it that I wasn't in a rush to read it. Now I'm wondering if we read the same book.

I loved the writing and loved how immersive it is. The story has some plot holes, I was so engaged with it that I didn't mind. The whole book feels like a dystopian Korean/Japanese/Movie. I loved it. I can't wait for the sequel.

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