It might have been to protect me from being swamped by grief, so I wouldn't relive the sadness I'd felt for each of the people I'd lost over the course of my life. When my lovers and friends died, my feelings were always muted and distant. With their own immortality.".It seemed the immortality-rather than make me more sensitive to the pain of losing a loved one-had robbed me of the ability to feel real emotion in the face of death. What Katsu does so well in these novels, and is so powerful here in the third book, is probe the relationship her immortal characters have not with one another, but with themselves. But only Adair possesses the ability to send Lanore into the Underworld to help Jonathan and then have the power to bring her back. From his dominance and keeping of her to her sealing him in a brick tomb for decades. The relationship between Lanore and Adair has always been a turbulent one. Lanore knows she must save him and the only person who can help her do so is her maker, Adair. Jonathan is trapped in the underworld, a kind of purgatory, where he is being beaten and brutalized. In this final chapter Lanore is in mourning from burying her mortal lover Luke when she is tortured with dreams of her first love Jonathan, whom she turned into an immortal herself and then killed to release him. The Descent, which is book three of The Taker series by Alma Katsu completes the tale of Lanore McIlvare, the young beautiful farm girl bestowed with the gift of immortality.
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