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Immortal: Second Edition

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I enjoyed this book well enough to finish it, but not fully enough to venture to the next one. I spent alot of time lost in all the changes, character insertions, without warning scene changes that it took away from the overall delivery for me. The formatting needs to be edited so that there are some sort of breaks when changing from one scene to another. The storyline left me confused about the main villains true motivation for wanting to destroy the heroinne. The time traveling also left me with multiple questions, not sure from once sentence to the next where I was in the connection with the "present" story. I do however think the Author is very talented, and I will say that perhaps I was simply out of my element in this one, but this is my honest critique.

I'm not a shape shifter fan but I'm a definite Valjeanne Jeffers fan. She takes the genre and tosses it around, combining sci-fi, horror and romance resulting in an exciting and interesting book. Valjeanne also makes her characters very believable in this fantastic setting. She never fails to incorporate the character's personal and ordinary struggles into their extraordinary and public lives. Valjeanne is also a master at action scenes. Her fight scenes and exciting and tense, just like I like them. I'll be following this series to the end.

Ms. Jeffers has created an oddly vivid and not so far-fetched neo-Earth in Immortal. Quick paced and well-crafted, I felt a connection with her protagonists and a distilled hatred for her antagonists. The characters' backstories fit together like the pieces of an intricate puzzle. From the absence of war to the presence of the obscenely paranormal, the frightening and beautiful; dangerous and air-tight; Immortal is filled with yins and yangs that somehow culminate into a satisfying literary balance. A wonderful read from beginning to end.

I was able to read this book from beginning to end with an interest to finish it. The main character - a recovering drug addict- was interesting and real. The world the author painted with her words was vivid and interesting, an almost perfect utopia. With all that, I just couldn't get into the books as I would have liked to. I bought the second volume and will read that, if I like it I will get the third.

When I first sat down to read Immortal I was skeptical. I'm not a vampire/werewolf/shape shifter fan but the book came highly recommended. Now that I have read it I'm hooked. Valjeanne balances a number of genres in this book; horror, science fiction and romance and makes it all believable. It's the strength of her characters and their personal lives that tie it all together. Although these characters are involved in epic situations they are also dealing with everyday relationship issues that affect their bigger decisions, just like real folks. And Valjeanne knows how to write an action scene as well. A great book and a great series to follow.

IMMORTAL by Val Jeanne Jeffers starts in the year 3075 and Tundra has been at peace for 400 years. Gone is the racism, poverty and war. Where if any weapons are brought into Tundra it is the one thing punishable by death. Tundra, a place where you are only known by your first name and number.

A young Indigo woman, named Karla, works as a healer, at a place called CLEAN. Where people go to get "clean" from being addicted to the drugs Rush and Placid (the only drugs that are legal.) Karla is tormented with erotic, yet terrifying dreams that she is immortal. The dreams are so real, that she is sure she sees a creature in her bedroom. When she recognizes him from her dreams...he disappears. Unfortunately, she knows without a shadow of doubt that this creature means her no good.

Later she meets an aspiring artist, Karla knows it is destiny that their paths have crossed because this is the man she has been dreaming about, for as long as she can remember. He is her warrior and protector from her dreams.

Joseph, a young farmer from Sorres, is haunted by dreams of a sorceress. These dreams embark him on a journey to find her and his destiny. Where together they will journey to the edge of time, to try and save Tundra from the evil that seeks to destroy it.

IMMORTAL by Val Jeanne Jeffers is an enchanting tale of magic, werewolves and humans that turn into creatures of the night. The story was mesmerizing to say the least. I look forward to reading the next installment in this series. Although a quick read, the story moves fast and leaves you wanting more. The writings of Mr. Jeffers remind me a lot of the writer Clive Barker. So if you are into stories that are magical that tell tales of the mythical, then this is your book.

Reviewed by Leona
APOOO BookClub

Length:: 6:42 Mins

"Four hundred years ago, before the Time of Legend, war and
crime had almost destroyed the planet. The Book of Records told stories of citizens hiding under their beds, as taser fire shattered their windows - stories of gang wars, of entire city blocks destroyed by explosions - of a world dying of the
toxins that filled its water and air.

But in the year of our One 3075, war, crime and pollution didn't
exist.

Contamination of the environment was illegal. Recycling was
mandated by planet law. Weapons had been outlawed and purged from
New World Tundra. Only a few remained on display in museums.
Prisons had become behavioral clinics where inmates were taught
the life skills they needed to be mainstreamed back into society.
It was illegal to have homeless living within one's borders, and
cities were punished with heavy fines if they didn't house them in private living quarters.

Junkies were the exception to this rule, since so many of them
lived in dormitories; and they were locked out if they missed curfew.It was forbidden for a citizen to be unemployed if he could work. Tundra law dictated that every able-bodied man and woman must be given a job, and it was forbidden to pay a citizen less than she needed to buy both necessities, and a few luxuries.

Racism and sexism were also relics that the New World had discarded during the Time of Legend, when everyone had been fighting to survive the holocaust. Then, they were luxuries the planet couldn't
afford. Now, like the chemical waste that had once poisoned Tundra,
they'd been forgotten.

But rush and placid were legal. If you were an addict you simply
went to a nightspot flashed your ID card and, if you had credits for the month, got high. If your card was empty, you went to a dormitory and did the same thing. Just not in luxury.

In fact, Tundra politicians - at their citizens' request - had
bankrolled illicit drugs. They seemed to say: "If you want to kill yourself, feel free to do so at the planet's expense."

Yet, these same politicians rolled out the red carpet for any junkie
who wanted to kick. Thus, plush clinics like CLEAN ("Clean living
experiences and no chemical dependency") where Karla worked, were
not uncommon.

She pulled the bell for her stop, got off and began her morning
walk..."

Length:: 6:42 Mins

"She was in the basement again. It was pitch black, the only
illumination a glowing, quarter moon etched into the floor. A burst of
light split the darkness, and she moaned low in her throat.

Please, I don't want to see anymore...I don't want to look.

Yet her feet moved of their own volition, inching toward the
mark...and the twisted bundle now lying in its center. A man was curled
upon the stone. He wasn't breathing, and his limbs were tiny and
withered. But she knew he wasn't dead.

He wasn't human.

The daemon opened his eyes. I've been sleeping. But for how long?"

Author Valjeanne Jeffers reads from her novels Immortal 2nd edition & Immortal II: The Time of Legend.
Copyright Valjeanne Jeffers 2009 all rights reserved.
[[ASIN:1441480897 Immortal: Second Edition]