Book Review: The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

In a future world, vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.
Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is attacked—and given the ultimate choice. Die…or become one of the monsters.
Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will go mad.
Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.
But it isn't easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth dying for.

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        It has been so long since I have read a good vampire story. Since Twilight, I've been craving something good to devour! When I picked up this book, I was so excited to read it. I read it in two days and LOVED it. It was nothing like I anticpated though, which was so good for me! Everything was so unexpected, which made it all the more interesting.

       Allison's character is so brilliant even though she came from nothing, you were smiling the whole way through with her as she came to terms with what she was and evidently grew up more as the book went on. The way she handled her conflicts in the book was something that I really came to admire about her throughout this story, as she breaks away from her maker and is forced to do things on her own.

     The world building in this book is fantastic, honestly, it is like being transported into another time. With Julie Kagawa, this can be expected for those who have read her Iron Fey series, we know that she has the power to create a world so unlike any other.

     I am very pleased with how this book turned out and cannot wait for the sequel which hits shelves in 2013.