Reviews

The Immortals by J.T. Ellison

teachread22's review against another edition

dark mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

beastreader's review

4.0

For Detective Taylor Jackson’s part in helping to stop “The Conductor”, a horrible serial killer, Taylor has recently been reinstated. Detective Jackson is putting her team back together again. Taylor does not have much rest time before she is needed. While heading home after celebrating, Taylor receives a phone call from dispatch of a possible homicide. Detective Jackson and her team head over to the scene. While investigating, they receive another report of a homicide. Before Taylor knows it, reports of homicide are coming in from every direction. When it is all said and done, there are eight young teenage bodies. Each one with strange occult symbols carved into their bodies. Can Taylor piece together all the pieces before the killer strikes again?

The Immortals is the fifth Taylor Jackson novel. The Immortals I thought was a bit darker and grittier than the prior novels. It moved slower than the other ones. While I started this series with reading book three and have enjoyed every book since, I must admit that this book took me a little longer to get into than usual. Not saying that this book was bad as it was up to par with the rest of the prior novels. Detective Jackson is one tough cookie. She can hang with the big boys. No matter how big or scary the killer is…Taylor always makes sure to get her man. Mrs. Ellison does know how to serve up a good mystery novel with The Immortals! I can not wait to read the next Taylor Jackson novel.

shellic88's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful informative mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

ryry7878's review

5.0

Loved it. Even though it gave me nightmares! My husband would love to be immortal and a vampire (Like in interview with a vampire) And I dreamt they were after us. Lots of fighting, hiding and all that. Only he stayed "outside" so he could be turned. Only in the dream they were not turning people, they were killing. I woke up a nervous wreck, he thought it was cool. Over active imagination here! But AWESOME book. One of my favs by J.T.!!

__faith's review

5.0

It was a really good book! I loved how in this book, it took place on a "holiday". It made it a lot more interesting since it talked about the Wicca religion as well. I also really enjoyed it since we got to see more into Baldwin's past and about one of the cases we worked years ago, before he met Taylor.

All in all, I would recommend this book!

sarah_bear's review against another edition

dark tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

fayan's review against another edition

dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

craz0's review against another edition

slow-paced

3.0

vlyman's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.0

shahrun's review

5.0

This could quite possibly be the most awesome instalment in the series, so far... Because somehow, JT Ellison keeps on turning it up a notch each time and just goes from strength to strength!

Only one niggle...

The books run sequentially and follow on from each other (with little or no time delay). And I thought Baldwin only just broke it off with with his psychotic ex/college around the time he hooked up with Taylor. Which I thought was a pretty recent event, if I remember the plots of earlier books correctly. Not long enought ago to have a 5 year old son? Or am I massivly wrong here? It could just be me, because JT Ellison is too good to make such a slip up! I hope she ups her output soon, because there are only a couple books left for me to read in this series!!!