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House Immortal
House Immortal Series #1
Devon Monk

ROC
September 2, 2014/ ISBN 9780451467362
Science Fiction

Reviewed by Jan Fields

 

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.

  

Reviewer Janis Fields is the editor of Kid Magazine Writers emagazine and has written dozens of stories and articles for the children's magazine market.
Reviewed 2014
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