Name: The Eternity Cure
Rating: 4.109090909090909 (55 reviews)
ISBN: 9780373210695

The Eternity Cure

Marissa Luzio 

This book starts somewhere right after the events of the first book. Allison is persistent to find Kanin by the blood bond they share. After some while, she links up with Jackal, her blood brother and Kanin's other creation. Lets just say, they don't exactly get along. Jackal is basically your stereotypical strong, leader, asshole type vampire. He ruled Chicago, the post-apocalyptic version anyways. This book opens with Allison fierce and cold-hearted, basically just killing anything that gets in her way, and I frankly LOVE her like that. It's so refreshing from the all-too popular innocent and weak protagonists that we get in books nowadays. It's pretty cool to go back to the original setting in The Immortal Rules, FYI the first book, where we got introduced to Allison and her band of misfits. The town is exactly as she remembered except for one thing, rabids are roaming the city more than ever and somethings up with the vamps. Also the fact that Kanin is being tortured and kept in captivity by Sarren, a psychotic and crazy vampire who has the weirdest obsession with birds. Yep. Crazy. Tweet Tweet.

Of course we meet back up with Zeke, who now fully accepts Allison for what she is, much to her relief. I LOVED THE FACT THAT THE ROMANCE WAS EVEN LESS THAN THE FIRST BOOK!! It's like Kagawa had heard my prayers. It was still evident but definitely not focused on at all! Of course with Zeke there he is re-introduced to Jackal and wants revenge for what happened to his people and most importantly, Jeb. Jackal being Jackal doesn't really give 2 shits which is pretty funny. I do love Jackal, as much as he is infuriating and an asshole, it's hard not to like him. Lets just give an example shall we: 

“We’re both still here.”
He drew in a slow breath. “Allie…”
“Oh, don’t mind me,” came an extremely sarcastic voice near the wall. “You two go ahead and make out—I’ll just sit here and bleed quietly.” 

And that's just one of his lines that cracks me up. Jackal is a pretty complex character beneath all that humour. He is not good nor bad, he does wish Allison accept herself fully and believes that humanities purpose was to be ruled by them, vampires. 

Overall, this sequel was amazing and deserves all the praise it has gotten! The ending was a huge shock considering what happens and leaves us on a cliffhanger. Sarren definitely has some hell to pay and Allison is going to come collecting very soon with Kanin and Jackal by her side. Till next time, in the last and final book of the series, The Forever Song. 

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Isabella Brouwer

Omygod, I don't even know what to feel anymore. Just, what?

Rachel Rozdzial

I actually liked this one better than the first. Allie felt much more developed as a character, and honestly, I found her a little annoying in the first book. But she really came into her own, and her motivations and conflicts felt more solid and realistic. There was sometimes too much repetition in some of the wording/descriptions but the writing was tighter on a whole. And I liked that Kanin got more "screen time",but I would have liked a little more impact from his back story. It seemed to be glossed over too much. Jackal was delightfully morally ambiguous, and Zeke, while his relationship with Allie seemed a little forced, also grew as a character. I liked the new plague that they had to deal with, it made the plot much more tense. I am looking forward to reading the next one.

(Disclaimer: I won a copy of this book in a Goodreads giveaway, and was not paid for this review. :) )

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