Immortal
 

Immortal

by Traci L. Slatton

In an age of wonderous beauty and terrible secrets,
one man searches for his destiny...

In the majestic heart of Florence, a beautiful golden-haired boy is abandoned and subjected to cruelty beyond words. But Luca Bastardo is anything but an ordinary boy. Across two centuries of passion and intrigue, Luca will discover an astonishing gift—one that will lead him to embrace the... (read more)

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Shana
  • Rated 4 stars

I went into Immortal thinking it was going to be pretty straight-forward historical fiction. It is so much more than that (which should have been obvious from the title.) There is a mystical, supernatural element to Traci Slatton's debut novel and it flirts with time travel, too. While both require a certain suspension of belief on the part of the reader, I enjoyed the extra dimension they added to the story.

Luca, the 'immortal' main character was extremely well-developed. He...

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AAR Rachel 2008 Reading
  • Rated 2 stars

Immortal is rather a hard book to pigeon hole. The title suggests vampires, but it's not a novel of the paranormal, unless you count the fact that the protagonist ages abnormally slowly, over the course of centuries instead of years. If pressed I would say this is historical fiction because so much of the book centers on the development of art and culture in medieval Florence.

Luca Bastardo does not know where he came from. He has heard rumors that he is the lost son of a noble...

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  • zsazsa26

    zsazsa26 said:

    Jacks, I saw this in B&N 2 weeks ago and it seemed very interesting...

    posted Thursday, March 13 2008
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