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Have you ever discovered a new book, by a new author, and absolutely LOVED it, so you go out and immediately buy the next book the author writes, and it’s not quite as good as the first one, but it’s still pretty good, so the next time a new book is released by that same author, again, you go out and buy it immediately, only this time it’s not very good at all, and you start to think maybe the author is a one hit wonder?<——that’s a REALLY long, yet (mostly?) grammatically correct, sentence.

That’s also really NOT what happened here. In fact, it was pretty much the reverse.

I discovered Tiernan’s Sweep series probably 10 years and inhaled it (all 15 installments) . It was okay, but the most I can say about it is that it was entertaining. Then I found her Balefire series, which was thankfully much shorter (only 4 installments) and it blew Sweep out the water.

So when I stumbled across Immortal Beloved, I was like, “Ooohhh . . . that looks interesting.”

And it was fantastic.

Nastasya, Nasty to her friends, is an immortal. No one is sure where the first immortal came from, but they can be found among every race and nationality. As is usually the case, they are not truly immortal—if you cut off their heads, burn their bodies, and scatter their ashes, they will not survive, but that’s a rather specific set of circumstances, so I don’t begrudge them their “immortal” status.

They also have the ability to learn and use magic.

If you know anything about Tiernan, then this is not a surprise. Tiernan excels at writing all things witchy, and Immortal Beloved is no exception. But Nasty avoids her magic b/c she learned at a very young age how dangerous it was for her to let others learn of her abilities.

Why is it dangerous . . . ? I think you know where I’m going with this—READ THE BOOK *winks*

But Nastasya can no longer avoid her magic when she leaves the life she’s been living in London and the friends she’s been living it with for the last hundred years behind.

This book . . . is a very emotional story to read. Nasty has money and beauty and immortality and a collection of friends who have all of those things as well, and . . . well, they’re pretty damn awful to tell the truth. Nasty leaves without a word after Incy, her best friend, uses magic to break the break of a rude cabbie . . . b/c he can. B/c he was angry that the cabbie dared to call them out for their juvenile behavior. So he . . . broke the poor man’s back . . . left him in a puddle on the street beside his cab . . . used magic again to prevent the man from calling out for help . . . and then went clubbing.

YEP. Incy’s kind of a bastard.

And while Nasty is shocked and horrified by Incy’s behavior—she had no idea he could use magic that way—she allows herself to be steered towards the bar that the rest of her crew are headed for, starts drinking, and does not one thing to help that man.
The next day, she wakes up hungover and completely disgusted, and decides that something has to change. She has no idea how she became the person she currently is, but she’s terrified of what it might mean for the rest of her very long life.

So she runs to the states.

She’d met a women about 80 years ago, who told her to simply to come if she decided she wanted more out of life.

So she does.

From there she enters a kind of rehab for immortals. It’s hard and it hurts, but Nastasya has reached a place where no matter how bad it is with River and the other immortals at the retreat, she can’t stand the thought of being anywhere else either . . . so she stays.

This book would be an excellent story without the paranormal elements. Nasty doesn’t need to be an immortal or capable of magic for her story to draw you in, make you feel her agony and despair and determination to change, be better, be MORE. But she is . . . and that only makes things more interesting . . .

And then there’s Reyn . . . the Viking GOD. Well, okay fine, he’s not really a god, but he’s several inches over six feet of blond Viking warrior, and that’s good enough for me.

And they hate each other. It’s fantastic. Nastasya and Reyn achieve the kind of slow burn combustibility that’s only possible when legitimate dislike is present, and it’s HOT.

So the characters are awesome. And despite what I said earlier about no one really knowing where immortals came from, the world-building in this series is VERY cool. It’s a mix of mythology and paganism, and I loved it. AND b/c even the youngest characters are as old or older than your grandparents, and no part of this story takes place on a high school campus, this is one of those YA novels that even readers 10+ years out of high school can enjoy. I recommend it to anyone who likes witchy UF and hot Viking gods. Immortal Beloved is an excellent first installment to this excellent trilogy.


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Immortal Beloved Cate Tiernan Books Reviews

From Sweep Author Cate Tiernan comes Immortal Beloved.

The story of Nastasya, a magickal Immortal who is almost 500 years old, is told in first person narrative creating a hard to put down novel that I, personally, hated to see end.

When Nastasya aka Nasty witnesses her long time companion commit a brutal act deliberatly harming an innocent mortal, Nasty decides it's time to make a change in her life.

After spending the last century indulging in whatever whim that takes her and running from the pain of her past, Nasty takes the advice of a woman she met on a lonely stretch of road years ago and heads for a group home set in Massachusetts.
Natasya isn't sure what to expect but what she finds isn't it! Rivers Edge is actually a Communal Organic Farm to outsiders but for Immortals it's much more. It's a place to get back in touch with their inherited powers and the simplistics of life. For Nasty, her inherited powers were always there but never really honed; she lost her family when she was a small child and her heritage was taken from her. As far as the simplistics, well, Nasty has acquired wealth--she doesn't do manual labor--period. On a farm where everyone is expected to pull their own weight that can be a problem and some people at Rivers Edge feel more entitled to be there and resent Nasty for her easy going charismatic ways. There's the introduction of Reyn, to which there is an instant hot-cold relationship between he and Nasty along with a sense of recognition from somewhere in the past and the other Immortals at Rivers Edge are engaging vivid characters that offer much to the story.

Immortal Beloved shows Nastasya's development through her stay at Rivers Edge; the mad attempts of her dark Immortal friends trying to find her and of course, someone at Rivers Edge doesn't like her.

All in all, Immortal Beloved is a great start to a new series and if you are a fan of Sweep or any of Cate Tiernan's writing, you'll love Immortal Beloved.
This is a fantastic book. And in it, Tiernan manages to do something not many author's can pull off turn two thoroughly unpleasant lead charactesr into people the reader truly cares about and roots for. I was not a big fan of Nastasya (Nasty to her friends) in the beginning, which I am certain was the point. Given her drug/alcohol-ridden existence, total lack of empathy or responsibility, and Chuck Bass-like, morally depleted friends...she's not at all your typical heroine. But her frequently painful journey into acceptance and renewal was absolutely captivating. She's strong, funny, and thoroughly human (in spite of the whole immortal thing, of course).

And the less said about my first impressions of Reyn, the better. I was really wondering how in the hell anyone could make him remotely sympathetic, especially after some of the big reveals. But Tiernan makes it work.

I also LOVED the immortal mythos. It was so refreshing to come across an entirely new sort of fantasy/myth element...something akin to vampires/faeries/et al, but at the same time, totally and uniquely different. I think Tiernan really captures what it might be like to be immortal...to continue to exist while everything around you changes and eventually dies. It makes sense that so many immortals go the way of Nasty and her crowd of friends (and why, at the same time, a select few eventually find their way to River and attempt to regain their humanity).

This book may be too light on the "romance" element and too heavy on, well, heavy themes (like hitting rock bottom, redemption, etc) for some readers. If you are looking for something light and entertaining, you may want to put this on the back burner for now. But if you're in the mood for something that will keep you thinking long after you've finished the story (and if you can handle waiting until next year for book two..) then get this book, NOW!
Have you ever discovered a new book, by a new author, and absolutely LOVED it, so you go out and immediately buy the next book the author writes, and it’s not quite as good as the first one, but it’s still pretty good, so the next time a new book is released by that same author, again, you go out and buy it immediately, only this time it’s not very good at all, and you start to think maybe the author is a one hit wonder?<——that’s a REALLY long, yet (mostly?) grammatically correct, sentence.

That’s also really NOT what happened here. In fact, it was pretty much the reverse.

I discovered Tiernan’s Sweep series probably 10 years and inhaled it (all 15 installments) . It was okay, but the most I can say about it is that it was entertaining. Then I found her Balefire series, which was thankfully much shorter (only 4 installments) and it blew Sweep out the water.

So when I stumbled across Immortal Beloved, I was like, “Ooohhh . . . that looks interesting.”

And it was fantastic.

Nastasya, Nasty to her friends, is an immortal. No one is sure where the first immortal came from, but they can be found among every race and nationality. As is usually the case, they are not truly immortal—if you cut off their heads, burn their bodies, and scatter their ashes, they will not survive, but that’s a rather specific set of circumstances, so I don’t begrudge them their “immortal” status.

They also have the ability to learn and use magic.

If you know anything about Tiernan, then this is not a surprise. Tiernan excels at writing all things witchy, and Immortal Beloved is no exception. But Nasty avoids her magic b/c she learned at a very young age how dangerous it was for her to let others learn of her abilities.

Why is it dangerous . . . ? I think you know where I’m going with this—READ THE BOOK *winks*

But Nastasya can no longer avoid her magic when she leaves the life she’s been living in London and the friends she’s been living it with for the last hundred years behind.

This book . . . is a very emotional story to read. Nasty has money and beauty and immortality and a collection of friends who have all of those things as well, and . . . well, they’re pretty damn awful to tell the truth. Nasty leaves without a word after Incy, her best friend, uses magic to break the break of a rude cabbie . . . b/c he can. B/c he was angry that the cabbie dared to call them out for their juvenile behavior. So he . . . broke the poor man’s back . . . left him in a puddle on the street beside his cab . . . used magic again to prevent the man from calling out for help . . . and then went clubbing.

YEP. Incy’s kind of a bastard.

And while Nasty is shocked and horrified by Incy’s behavior—she had no idea he could use magic that way—she allows herself to be steered towards the bar that the rest of her crew are headed for, starts drinking, and does not one thing to help that man.
The next day, she wakes up hungover and completely disgusted, and decides that something has to change. She has no idea how she became the person she currently is, but she’s terrified of what it might mean for the rest of her very long life.

So she runs to the states.

She’d met a women about 80 years ago, who told her to simply to come if she decided she wanted more out of life.

So she does.

From there she enters a kind of rehab for immortals. It’s hard and it hurts, but Nastasya has reached a place where no matter how bad it is with River and the other immortals at the retreat, she can’t stand the thought of being anywhere else either . . . so she stays.

This book would be an excellent story without the paranormal elements. Nasty doesn’t need to be an immortal or capable of magic for her story to draw you in, make you feel her agony and despair and determination to change, be better, be MORE. But she is . . . and that only makes things more interesting . . .

And then there’s Reyn . . . the Viking GOD. Well, okay fine, he’s not really a god, but he’s several inches over six feet of blond Viking warrior, and that’s good enough for me.

And they hate each other. It’s fantastic. Nastasya and Reyn achieve the kind of slow burn combustibility that’s only possible when legitimate dislike is present, and it’s HOT.

So the characters are awesome. And despite what I said earlier about no one really knowing where immortals came from, the world-building in this series is VERY cool. It’s a mix of mythology and paganism, and I loved it. AND b/c even the youngest characters are as old or older than your grandparents, and no part of this story takes place on a high school campus, this is one of those YA novels that even readers 10+ years out of high school can enjoy. I recommend it to anyone who likes witchy UF and hot Viking gods. Immortal Beloved is an excellent first installment to this excellent trilogy.