Immortal Stories: Eve

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This is a novella set in Gene Doucette's “Immortal” universe. Doucette changes the perspective on this one from the 60,000-year-old Adam to the equally old/perhaps older Eve.

I'm reading the series a bit out of order since I have not read, as recommended, the Immortal at the Edge of the World. Nonetheless, I enjoyed this one as a bit of a spoiler because it gave me an advance look at Eve's backstory. In “Immortal,” she seemed to be a pure plot device, i.e., someone glimpsed from a distance that Adam could never reach. In Hellenic Immortal, we learn that she has a distinct antipathy for Adam. In this novella, we don't learn why she has such an antipathy, but we learn something about how she has managed to elude Adam for tens of thousands of years.

Eve comes across as a different person from Adam. There is no drinking or sarcastic humor here. She's a far more serious person, and she's confronted with a serious conundrum, a new disease for the non-human population and the return of someone from her deep past.

Neither of these conundrums is resolved. This book is bait and set-up for future instalments of the franchise. I often complain when I am handed the first part of a book without being told that it is just an instalment, but in this case, I enjoyed the story, I expected it to be short, and I don't feel that I got swindled by the price.