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Immortality: A Love Story

Dana Schwartz

2023 · 389 pages · Historical fiction

adventurous moodfast pacedlight and escapist toneresolved and happy ending

How it reads

Immortality: A Love Story is historical fiction (historical fantasy adventure, specifically), and its dominant mood is adventurous. It's driven by momentum, discovery and getting into trouble. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.

It's set in an international setting, in the historical past, told in the first person by a single narrator. Its central concerns are identity, love and power and politics. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.

It's a later book in a series — you'll usually want to start earlier. The ending resolves happily. At 389 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's well known, the kind of book most keen readers have heard of.

Pick it up if…

  • you're in the mood for something adventurous
  • you want a book that pulls you through
  • you want an escape

Maybe not if…

  • you need something cosy or melancholy
  • you want dense, lingering prose

All 15 dimensions

Author gender
female
Author experience
established
Setting: place
international
Setting: time
historical
Mood / feeling
adventurous
Tone / weight
light and escapist
Length
medium
Narrative style
first person, one narrator
Publication era
recent
Popularity
well known
Series vs standalone
later in a series
Ending style
resolved and happy

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