My Immortal: Erin McCarthy

Marley Turner has always sacrificed her own happiness to see to the needs of her family: mother, father, younger sister Lizzie, and most recently Lizzie's son. When Lizzie takes off on another one of her jaunts no one is especially concerned but when Marley checks her e-mail while on a religious retreat and receives one from Lizzie, she realizes that it is two months old, and it's the last word that has been heard from Lizzie. Armed with only the vague clues of the city of New Orleans and a plantation called Rosa de Montana, Marley sets out to find her sister and wanders straight into a southern gothic fairytale and a two hundred year old mystery wrapped around a very handsome enigma.

Damian du Bourg has spent the last two hundred years flogging himself for a sorry, drunken pact he made with a fallen angel: eternal life and youth in exchange for sowing sexual deviancy among mortals. He fulfills his portion of the pact by hosting "adult" parties at his plantation, though he never takes part in the activities and seems to find them distasteful. The pact also makes him irresistible to women but he grew weary of this (poor man!) and vowed to never take his pleasure from women again. He would only give pleasure, generally to women who aren't used to receiving it from such attractive men. When Marley barges into his life in pursuit of her sister he finds his vow being tested for the first time in a very long time and he also finds that she is able to resist the demon-charm when no other women has been able to. Indeed, she seems to see the real man and cares about him but with her sister missing and an ever growing mystery surrounding Damian and the plantation it may take more than demon-charm to placate Marley.

I generally hate metaphors like the one I'm about to employ but it's really the best kind to use so here goes: this book is very much like a quick-mix chocolate mousse. It's rich, sweet, and fluffy but it's soon gone and easily forgotten. The writing was somewhat stilted in places but it wasn't bad overall and there were several moments of redeeming humor. It's a good book if you're looking for a light afternoon read but don't expect the mystery to be a page-turner. If you haven't figured everything out within one hundred pages then you don't deserve to read anything else ever again.
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Jove (August 28, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0515143480
ISBN-13: 978-0515143485
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