Nastasya has lived a lifetime, an everlasting lifetime. As an immortal, she's reinvented herself more times than she can count. After witnessing her friend Innocencio break a man's back with a spell and then walking away, Nasty takes a look at herself and her friends and she doesn't like what she sees. In fact, she's scared, horrified even. Scared enough to run and hide from her friends, from her memories, from her life.

Nasty seeks help from a woman she once met years ago and ends up at River's Edge. She doesn't feel like she belongs there, but where she belongs doesn't exist anymore. She can't trust the people she thought were friends, is there anyone she can trust? Will River's Edge save Nastasya or drive her deeper into despair? Will Innocencio come looking for Nasty?

Read the book to find out!

Immortal Beloved is the first book in a new trilogy by Cate Tiernan. It's different to most paranormal/fantasy books these days, because there's no vampires, no werewolves, no shape-shifters, nothing like that. This is about being immortal in this world and all that is brought with it, magick is also wound through the story.

The story is told from Nastasya's point-of-view, so the other characters are all based her perspective. You almost find yourself liking or disliking the characters she does. Despite being several hundred years old, Nasty is quite immature, but when you read how she's been wasting her life you can see where the immaturity comes from. Her immaturity also gives the character room to grow, to become who she is, not who she pretends to be.

Some might find this story slow, but I'd say to keep with it as it's an evolving story and there are faster-paced parts to it. We learn more about Nastasya's life through flashbacks, giving us a more detailed story.

Something I like in a book is humour and there were several instances where I had to laugh while reading Immortal Beloved. Despite what shes been through, Nastasya can be quite funny. Even on the last page the author managed to fit in some humour.

My only real problem with the book was that one of the storylines was left open, almost forgotten about, not in a cliffhanger sort of way. However, I'm guessing that this will be carried on into the second book, so it's not a big issue.

All in all, I enjoyed reading Immortal Beloved and found it a refreshing change. In fact, I enjoyed it so much that I got through it in just a couple of day and I'm already looking forward to reading the second book in the trilogy.

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