This is not a book I would have picked up on my own. The cover art put me off, apparently I do judge books by their covers! It took me probably a good 100 pages or so to begin to be interested in the story. To be fair, by the end of the book I was engaged in the story. This is a tale of immortality. Would you want to live forever?
Through a series of strange events Lanore, Lanny, finds herself immortal. She is unable to die - it is literally impossible. She was born in the early 1800's and when we meet her it is "present day." To say she's lived a lot of life would be an understatement. We meet her as she is brought in to Luke's ER. He's the doctor on shift. Lanny is beguiling and Luke finds himself helping her escape from the law. Along the journey to freedom Luke learns Lanny's odd and unthinkable story of immorality and the price she pays because of it.
I'm not sure what I think about this book. It wasn't horrible but it kind of dragged for me. There's a fine line between too little detail and too much. Katsu crossed over the line, in my opinion, to including too much detail in parts of the book. Like with Jonathan and his good looks. I wanted to say at just a few chapters in, "Okay, enough already. We get it - Jonathan is beautiful." However, kudos to Katsu for imagining this story and bringing it to life - I admire the fanciful creativity it takes to write fiction, I got done with the book and considered reading the other two in the series but after reading a brief excerpt from book 2 and reading reviews about both books 2 & 3 I have decided I don't need to read anymore of the series, I'm not *that* interested in it.