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My Immortal Assassin (2011)

by Carolyn Jewel(Favorite Author)

3.96 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0446563862 (ISBN13: 9780446563864)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Forever

series

My Immortals

review 1: It's more of a 3.5 or maybe 3.75.I won this book from a giveaway over at oddshots, picking the third book in the series, despite not having read the first two, because I had the impression that I would love this couple. And I was not disappointed.***spoiler alert***I love a strong female lead. The last heroine with a (former) dancing career made me want to wring her neck because she was such a whiny, little...But Grayson? Grayson kicks butt. Probably quite literally if the need arises. I started to like her when she faced off Durian when they first met, and I seriously loved her when she protected him from the mageheld sent after them. I liked that she didn't back down, no matter what they threw at her, no matter that she was scared or creeped out by some of the things she... more had to go through, that she was able to held her own despite the trauma she suffered. And I also liked that she didn't take stupid risks. She screwed up occasionally, but she was more focused on fixing her mistakes than whining about them. That's a heroine I can seriously get behind.I had my problems with Durian at times. He's very gentlemanly, but then he goes and binds Grayson with an oath of fealty that forces her to protect him with her life, at a time when he doesn't think she's able to protect him at all. In other words, if anyone had attacked them before Grayson got some training, she'd be killed in a useless attempt to protect someone who's more capable of doing that himself. So not gentlemanly at all.But on the other hand, it was really sweet to watch him fall in love with Grayson. While there was instant lust (which I don't like that much, but I liked that there was a good explanation behind it), there wasn't instant love. Durian is almost stereotypical prim and proper, while Grayson tends more toward the chaotic, wild and rebellious. What I really liked about their relationship was that their personalities weren't changed to fit each other. Durian wasn't suddenly happy with Gray's choice of clothing, but started to like the fact that he didn't like it. Neither did Gray get all meek and agreeable, but rather shifted her priorities from killing Christophe to protecting Durian.I'm not a romance reader. Give me some sappy love story, and I'm bored out of my mind within minutes. What makes me read paranormal romance books is the setting, interesting worldbuilding and the characters, and this book had plenty of all three. I loved the idea of demons and mages at war, and that you couldn't just side with one faction and declare the others evil. Fiends (the demons) might have once been a serious threat to humanity, but the mages who fought them got a great deal of power from enslaving and murdering them. One of the mages, Leonidas, sums the situation up pretty neatly: "What world do we live in when the demonkind have begun to protect humans from the magekind? The time for change is long past."The story left me with lots of intriguing questions, and I really hope we get to read Kynan Aijan's story. Because, wow. I'm definitely going to read the other books in this series.
review 2: MY IMMORTAL ASSASSIN by Carolyn JewelBook #3 in the Witches Series01/11 - Grand Central Publishing - Mass Market Paperback, 384 pagesWorlds collide, hearts are won over and love dances onto the pagesAnna Grayson Spencer saw life in a certain manner until someone she loved died and willed his magic to her. Gray went from human to magekind and needed someone to help her learn how to deal with this new found life. The man for the job is Durian a warlord’s assassin set up to help Gray not only by helping her embrace the magic but learn to use it against the forces of evil trying to kill off the human race but first she has to swear fealty to him – seriously?Gray has lost so much in her life and walked away from her family burying secrets about herself so deep even she forgot about them, but Durian is going to open and heal those wounds and keep her safe especially from herself. The more time Gray spends with Durian the more drawn she is to him and realizes that he is the missing piece she has been searching for. Their voyage involves fighting the darker side but even that moves them closer together as their two souls become one. What an engaging story and such wonderful characters that keep the excitement moving from page to page you will not want this book to end. The storyline is easy to follow and well laid out which for some is a challenge with this genre. A great author knows how to tell a story everyone can follow and Ms. Jewel has done just that. less

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