![]() ![]() Will the prophecy be true? How deep-rooted is our fear of death? How strong is our will to survive? The Immortalists is an exploration of self under duress, under the ultimate and most final kind of pressures.Ĭhloe Benjamin's writing is tremendously readable and felt true to each era she attempted. Simon and Klara have left home in pursuit of an unrestrained life and dreams come true, while Daniel and Varya chose a more practical and seemingly solid path. What follows is a chapter dedicated to each of the four (now adult) children during the months/years leading up their predicted date. A trip to a woman who claimed to be able to tell you the exact date of your death. Where she took it, however, was not somewhere I was consistently following.įour Gold siblings. I had no idea where I expected, or even wanted, the author to take the storyline. ![]() I truly had no expectations beyond the first prophetic chapter. So enthralled was I with the concept of a book where it's characters have 'found out', at an extremely young and fragile age, just how long they were to be on the earth. It was literally the only question I asked anyone else who cared to answer. What if you knew the exact day that you would cease to exist? It was literally the only question I asked myself as I read The Immortalist. ![]()
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