Take
one part classic Frankenstein and mix in two parts future
tech, then season with politics and a dash of romance (but
just a dash) and you'll get House Immortal. Matilda
Case works a rather unusual farm as far from house politics
as she can get. She knows she needs to keep her stitches and
her father's creatures secret, but she never guessed just
how special she really was. Then a desperately wounded man
shows up on the farm and turns her life upside down. Suddenly
she is thrust right in the middle of a world she knows nothing
about, and every choice she makes could mean the difference
between saving or dooming the people she loves. I thoroghly
enjoyed all the twists and turns of this plot, and the complexities
of the house system Matilda is thrust into. I enjoyed her
character as well, with her strengths and flaws. I also loved
the character of her grandmother and the surprises the old
woman had up her sleeves (or at the ends of her knitting needles).
I didn't quite enjoy the suddenness with which the book ended,
I like to see installments of any series have a bit more feeling
of satisfying completeness, but that wasn't enough to spoil
the book for me. Now, some are calling this urban fantasy,
but it felt a lot more like science fiction to me -- so if
you're looking for something really unusual in character driven
science fiction, you'll definitely enjoy this one.
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