The Immortalists

This book started off really strong but I was really disappointed in the end.

This book revolves around four siblings who go to a gypsy woman (a psychic) as children. There's Varya, Daniel, Klara, and Simon...they are each told their date of death. We do not know what date each child is told until they have a conversation as adults after their father's death. We then get four different stories for each sibling. Simon as the youngest at 16 moves to San Francisco to a part of the gay community, Klara is a vagabond who loves magic and has a stint and success in Vegas, Daniel who is a doctor for the military, and Varya who has dedicated her life to science.

The stories of Simon, Klara, and Daniel are very touching and really make one think of the power a person allows a suggestion to take over their life. But then we get Varya's story and I just feel the story lost its luster at this point. I'm not sure if the author wanted things to be tied up in a nice little package but it definitely fell flat for me. I gave this book three stars because I absolutely loved 3/4 of it!