There's something about The Immortalists that makes it feel like a really special book (and it's not just the touch of sparkle on the cover). How does a book that focuses on how four siblings individually handle their feelings after visiting a woman who predicts the dates each of them will die manage to not feel terribly depressing and morbid? Instead, this book was an interesting contemplation on family, mortality, and living.
We follow the Gold siblings throughout the decades of their lives that follow the day they learned how much time they had left to live. Each sibling is featured in their own sections, and we get to know each of them through their perspectives and in how they are seen by each other. There's a great range of ages that are predicted, and how the siblings each choose to live with the their knowledge and the time they have left varies, and impacts the way they interact with both each other and the world. I felt deeply invested in finding out how they chose to live, and if the predictions would come true. I read Chloe Benjamin's first book several years ago and really enjoyed it, and hope that there is much more to come from this author.
We follow the Gold siblings throughout the decades of their lives that follow the day they learned how much time they had left to live. Each sibling is featured in their own sections, and we get to know each of them through their perspectives and in how they are seen by each other. There's a great range of ages that are predicted, and how the siblings each choose to live with the their knowledge and the time they have left varies, and impacts the way they interact with both each other and the world. I felt deeply invested in finding out how they chose to live, and if the predictions would come true. I read Chloe Benjamin's first book several years ago and really enjoyed it, and hope that there is much more to come from this author.