Mortal Danger (The Immortal Game, #1)

by Ann Aguirre

[Jack]

This was an amazing read and I couldn’t put it down. The more I read, the more frightening the book got. I can’t remember the last time I was so sucked into a book.

Edie is a very smart, (probably a genius) level high schooler, who is ostracized by The Teflon Crew, aka the popular kids at school for being so different. She’s not pretty, a little chubby, a recluse and very smart. So she gets mercilessly picked on by her peers.

After The Teflon Crew does something to push Edie over the edge she decides she’s going to end it all and jump over a bridge somewhere in Boston. She thought it out, planned everything out so that there would be minimal people around to stop her. It was very meticulous and scary how well thought out she had planned her suicide. She didn’t leave a note for her distant parents who are too caught up in the academical world to pay much attention to their daughter, let alone know how much she is suffering.

She was just about to let go, when an hand caught her arm, pulling her back, stopping Edie from ending it all. A strikingly beautiful young man is gazing intently at Edie, before telling her not to do it. She tries to pull away from him but he doesn’t let her go. She finds out Kian is his name and she has a deal to make with her.

They are instantly transported to a diner, which freaks out Edie. But the young woman sticks around long enough to hear Kian out. He makes her the deal of a lifetime. Kian offers her three favors, that can be used for anything, limited only by the imagination and what Edie is capable of doing. The catch is that she has to do three favors in return to Kian and the people he works for.

Sounds like a really good deal! Which Edie takes. She uses her first favor to make herself more attractive, the perfect version of herself. For the summer she goes away to a science camp so when she comes back her parents would be more accepting of the big changes that happened.

Once back at school she instantly goes from a loser to one of the popular kids. The outer members of the Teflon Crew are really kind to her, as they had nothing to do with what happened that caused Edie to cause her to go over the edge.

Edie really has her guard up when she starts to get more involved with the Teflon Crew. It’s about here when things start to get creepy. Edie sees creepy men out of the corner of her eye, a skinny man that smells of death that almost touched her.

Things start to get more crazy from there, shadows appear on the outskirts on her vision, a man with a bag and children with black eyes. They stalk her wherever she goes, she tries to go to Kian for protection, but knows she cannot trust him 100% because of the not so human man that he works for.

Edie realizes that she is destined for greatness, and Kian has been tasked to keep her on that path. What that path is, Edie has yet to figure out.

This book had me frightened on more then one occasion. It was deliciously creepy and left me wanting more. The world building and characters were amazing.

Immortals were playing a large game of chess with humans as the pawns. But Edie was the Queen, destined for amazing things.

The only thing I wasn’t partial to in this book was the romance between Kian and Edie. It felt really shallow, and I couldn’t quiet accept that Kian was being honest with her, and was really on her side.

I cannot wait for the next book in this series!