Dennis's Reviews > Reluctant Immortals

Reluctant Immortals is the love child of Taylor Jenkins Reid and Paul Tremblay. I do not agree with the comparisons of Mexican Gothic AT ALL. I said what I said. I enjoyed this book a lot more than I thought I would as it centers around women in classic fictional horror literature and is retold in a new environment—1960s Hollywood. The story centers around Lucy Westenra from Dracula and Bertha Mason (Bee) from Jane Eyre as immortal beings living with the demons of their past. Both Lucy and Bee are haunted by the ghosts of their past—Dracula and Rochester. It isn't until the return of another immortal that throws the ghosts of Lucy and Bee's pasts into the present.

I don't want to give too much information about this plot, because well, it's f'n weird. In a good way. In a fun way. In an intriguing way. I want you to enjoy the peculiarities of this book like I did because if I wasn't so caught off guard, this book would probably not have worked for me. This book is my first read by the author and honestly, Gwendolyn Kiste's writing is spectacular. Kiste knows how to tell a story! This story takes place in the 1960s, but the themes in this book cover both current day and the past before this time period. This character-driven horror is not for everyone, but if you need a palette cleanser from your typical thrillers, this is a fun one to escape with.