This is the harsh reality that seventeen year old Allison Sekemoto lives in. You can never take that out of them–out of us–no matter how civilized things are.”( The Immortal Rules, pg.383) “Except people still disappear from the streets all the time. Registered humans get blooded twice a month to feed the vampires and to prevent messy deaths. The ruling vampires try to convince their captive “citizens” that they have kept every thing very civilized. The vampires of this savage world are “vicious soulless demons” who wouldn’t think twice about ripping the throat out of some unfortunate human.Ĭities full of vampires have replaced the cities that had once belonged to humans, and the human race has become the source that keeps these cities alive. These vampires don’t sparkle in sunlight or even socialize with mortals, who they view as their blood cattle and nothing more.

The order of our world as we know it today has long since fallen to a new order lead by vampires. The Immortal Rules, book one in the Blood of Eden series by Julie Kagawa, takes place in a post apocalypse world where the Red Lung virus has ravaged humanity, killing those who succumb to the virus and bringing them back to life as mindless rabids hungry for living flesh and blood.

The immortal rules series