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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN num: 9780515143485
ISBN number: 0515143480
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Page Count: 320
Printing Date: August 28, 2007
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In the late eighteenth century, plantation owner Damien du Bourg struck an unholy bargain with a fallen angel: an eternity of inspiring lust in others for the gift of immortality. But when Marley Turner stumbles upon Damien's plantation searching for her missing sister, for the very first time in two hundred years it's Damien who can't resist the lure of a woman. But his past sins aren't so easily forgotten-or forgiven.
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This was different from McCarthy's other books. It lacked an entertainment value I have enjoyed with her other stories. This book is about immortal demons. There have been spells cast upon them that require them to promote sin. Huh???!!
Its a little too out there for my liking. Was quite disappointed.
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I'm not sure what McCarthy was trying to say or imply in this story. Supposedly this guy, Damien, is a Demon servant (is it just me or do ALL authors name their demon or demon related characters Damien?) whose job is to instill the evil sin of lust in people. Therefore, Damien has been hosting sex parties for like 200 years. Basically, people get together and worship each other's bodies all night. No drugs, no coercion, no rape allowed. Ooookay....how is this different than a regular nightclub--only the nightclub can have drugs, alcohol, and sometimes may even lead to rape. So Damien's party is suppose to be evil? Then, he "evilly" sudduces ugly, shy, and fat women because that is his way at getting back at the demon. So, the demon ONLY wants to instill lust in beautiful people? Does he really think a demon would care what the person looks like? Are we suppose to like admire Damien now because he tortures himself by messing around with ugly/fat people? Poor Damien?
Sorry, but ewwwww. I don't think so.
At the end of the story the demon shows our "heroine," Marley, a vision of her enjoying her time spent with her possible future children. She turns to the demon and ask where God was. *pause* What? Was she expecting to see him sitting on the front porch waving? What kind of question was that? Plus, the whole sex is evil even with your husband thing was just weird.
I really don't think McCarthy knows what lust is and how to portray it. She wasn't willing to get down and dirty about it and show it as something that could be considered a sin. Instead she showed a lighter, softer, safer side of it which left the storyline fake and flat. I'm disappointed and I don't plan to read anything more by her. I perfer by writers a bit more fearless.
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It's 1790 in River Road Louisiana, and wealthy, spoiled plantation owner Damien du Bourg has made a deal with the devil. Or more accurately, with a demon named Rosa. The price for his immortality is "to promote sin, to encourage lust, obsessive and selfish sexual desire." It doesn't take long for the novelty to wear off, and Damien soon decides he will no longer take pleasure for his own sake. His self-recrimination is the result of intense feelings of guilt for everything that went wrong in his marriage to his frail French bride, Marie. But he holds up his end of the bargain for more than two hundred years, throwing wild sex parties where the dissolute can come to slake their lust.
Flash to present day, and Marley Turner is leaving the convent where she has spent the summer trying unsuccessfully to find peace. She gets an email from her sister Lizzie, who's off partying and sleeping her way through Louisiana, leaving her young son to stay with relatives. Marley has always been the strong, sensible one holding things together for her family, and she's alarmed when she can't find her sister.
Marley has never wanted a bad boy; in fact, she believes she wants someone "intelligent and kind and respectful" with whom she can settle down and start a family. When she meets enigmatic and sexually compelling Damien, she feels inexplicably drawn to him. Because for the very first time in a very long time, Damien feels genuine desire, and he can't deny it no matter how hard he tries. But can he forgive himself for his past sins?
I like the dark side of Erin McCarthy! My Immortal alternates between Marie's letters to a confidante detailing her miserable marriage and the present day where a hopeless optimist comes together with a jaded cynic. Damien feels a temptation that he hasn't felt in a very long time, and the result is delicious. The bathtub scene is very hot, and one of my favorite parts of the book. Don't be surprised if you feel the urge to grab Marley's irresponsible sister and slap her upside the head. I thought more than once that I was going to dislike Damien, but he kept pleasantly surprising me. In fact, the whole book is a nice blend of suspense and drama, and it kept me guessing to the very end. A terrific read.
4 1/2 Kisses, 1 Pepper
~Lindy
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I'd recommend skipping the very first 235 pages and just read from page 236 to the end, page 311. Do I give this 1 star for not liking most of the book or 4 or 5 stars for the Alex part? I don't know, so I'll compromise with 2 stars. The main characters did not interest me. For most of the book, I wanted it to be over. I did not like the back-and-forth writing style of two stories, but I liked the plot concerning demons.
The book consisted of two stories, one about Damien and Marie in 1790. The second story was about Damien and Marley around 2007. I would have preferred the author tell the 1790 story completely, and then tell the 2007 story. For the very first 236 pages, the author told both stories at the same time, going back and forth. I was annoyed, with a feeling similar to tv commercials interrupting the stories. I wanted each story by itself. I don't think it would have hurt the plot to do it my way. Marley was learning the story over time and took certain actions based on her growing knowledge of the earlier story. I think that still could be accomplished, without the reader learning the past story with interruptions.
I didn't enjoy reading about the main characters: Damien, Marley, Marie, and Rosa. Damien was selfish and unlikeable in his youth. One night, on a whim, he asks Rosa to make him immortal in return for his servitude to her demon father Alex for eternity. Damien had no reason to do this. Then after he becomes immortal, his job is to incite lust in humans, which he does by hosting orgy parties. Then, for reasons unclear to me, he refuses to have sex with women for over 100 years, as his way of defying Alex. Alex probably didn't even care. This made no sense to me.
I had trouble liking Marley. She was the "good girl," single, a teacher with strong moral values and felt responsible for her family. Her sister Lizzie the "bad girl" had bipolar issues and would run off and disappear for long periods of time. Marley learned that Lizzie had been gone for awhile so Marley spends more money than she can afford to travel and stay in a hotel to try to find Lizzie. When she eventually found her, she discovered Lizzie was in love with a man, having a ball, and not thinking about her family being concerned. I had trouble with Marley's "always the martyr" decision to go after Lizzie in the very first place. When there is a bad egg in the family, one doesn't break the bank to find and convince them come home when they don't want to come home, especially when this has been a habitual problem.
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I didn't like Marie either. She started out sympathetic because she was married to an abusive man. She was afraid of sex and sickly. After seeing her husband have sex with Rosa, Marie decides she wants to have lustful sex as well. She gains weight, improves her health, and starts having passionate sex with Damien. Then, she becomes haughty, irritable, gossipy, possessive, jealous, etc.
On the other hand, I loved reading about Alex, the demon father. He was the ultimate in wickedness regarding women and sex. I want to be surprised when I read a story. Well, this guy shocked and surprised me! It's almost worth getting the book just to read about him, on pages 247 to 292. Although, the reader might need some of the previous story for context to get the full impact. Alex had a strange and shocking relationship with Lizzie. And even stranger was what he wanted from Marley and then what he did after she told him her decision. Alex is one of those unforgettable characters.
Sexual language: strong. Number of sex scenes: eighteen plus. Setting: 1790 and current day New Orleans area. Copyright: 2007. Genre: fantasy romance.
To date, I've read the following Erin McCarthy books.
4 stars. Bad Boys OnLine. Copyrt 2007. Review Date 6/26/08.
4 stars. The Lady Of The Lake (in anthology When Good Things Happen to Bad Boys). Copyrt 2006. Review Date 2/3/07.
3.5 stars. The Pregnancy Test. Copyrt 2005. Review Date 6/26/08.
2 stars. My Immortal. Copyrt 2007. Review Date 6/26/08.
1 star. You Don't Know Jack. Copyrt 2006. Review Date 2/11/07.
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My Immortal by Erin McCarthy is the very first in a series of (supposedly?) seven books following the Seven Deadly Sins. The very first theme shown here is Lust. We learn the history of Damian, a demon servant, through letters left by his very first wife and stories told by an elderly neighbor woman. I became completely engrossed in the novel due to these letters. We learn quickly that Damian was made immortal by the demon in exchange for encouraging lust. The more immoral sex going on the better, apparently. The letters are mixed in with the narrative told by Marley, a slightly chunky, straight-arrow woman in search of her missing, trampy sister. This story is extremely well-written and I look forward to reading more novels by this author due to that fact alone. The story so engaging that I found it hard to put away. We see many sides to Damian and Marley, to a lesser extent. (Seeing how he has 200 plus years on her, I guess thats understandable.) My problem with this novel wasn't the explicit sexual content. The book just went on and on about about how immoral sex was. When people were doing each other randomly and in groups and stuff, I could MAYBE stretch my imagination and say 'ok maybe' that could be considered immoral. But when the married woman believes she is becoming more and more immoral because she is having wild sex with her husband, that just seems like Ms.McCarthy was stretching a little bit to make the story fit her theme of Lust being a Deadly Sin. What happens between and man and his wife isn't immoral, its beautiful. Three stars for "My Immoral" for its portrayal of sexuality as always being a sin. This was very distracting to me as a reader. The plotlines were strong, and the story-telling even better, despite that.
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