Book Review: Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan

Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

My first review in a long time...god I miss doing them.

I read Immortal by Sue Lynn Tan and I enjoyed myself. I liked Liyen and how headstrong she was, trying to make sure the choices she made for her kingdom of Tianxia were the perfect choices for it-which means that she's not gonna bow down to the Queen and get her blessing. She wants the Shield of Rocks and Sand I believe so they can take down the barrier so they can live in peace and not locked up in a shield and not being able to go out to the world, to see it and see what is out there. While she was trying to do that, that's when she met the God of War, Zhangwei, whom she hates immediately because he burned her home down and also possibly killed her beloved grandfather, which was terrible, but there was a reason why.

Her grandfather gave her the Divine Lotus Flower because she was poisoned by the Wangchuan Waters, and he gave it to her instead of Queen Caihong, so she could heal and live. When the God of War comes and tries to get her to fall in love with him so he can get the Divine Lotus, she starts to fall for it...only for her to learn that it was all a trick to get her to relinquish the flower, and he tries to get it from her by stabbing her.

Liyen gets mad and goes back to Tianxia, where she tries to navigate the court without the blessing of Queen Caihong when the darker forces attack and she's in their clutches. She meets Lord Dalian and learns a secret: her Aunt Shou is one of them. Lord Dalian wants revenge on Queen Caihong for what happened to their people and how his sister died. But the more Liyen learns about the past and what happened, even going to the Temple of the Crimson Moon to learn about her past. When she rejects both destines and rewrites her own, that's when she gets the memories of the time she was immortal and remembers the love she shared and loved with the God of War, Zhangwei.

The ending was slow, but at the same time, I enjoyed myself reading it. I was close to crying when I read the ending, and I didn't want this story to end. I wanted to know what happened to Liyen and Zhangwei, though it did also turn out funny when he came back when she summoned him and said that she's gonna marry him in front of the whole entire court, and she was trying not to laugh (but I laughed because that whole thing was funny.) I enjoyed this book and now I wanna read all of Sue Lynn Tan's works :)

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