The Immortal Tailor by Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
THE IMMORTAL WORLD IS IN TROUBLE, AND THE GODS DEMAND . . . THEIR TAILOR COME TO THE RESCUE?
The Immortal Tailor
Long ago, Damien Greystone hung up his guns, knives, and rope for the quiet life of a tailor. Sure, his clients now include the likes of bloodthirsty vampires, a hair-obsessed Bigfoot, and fourteen insane deities, but at least Damien doesn’t have to kill anymore. And, sure, he’s been cursed to live alone for all eternity, but nobody’s life is perfect. Right?
Unfortunately, his monk-like existence is about to come to a screeching halt. The gods’ powers are on the fritz, and they’re demanding his help.
But when Damien starts investigating, he meets Sky Morales, a beautiful journalist who’s up to her ears in danger (and one very aggressive fairy). He has no choice but to dust off his weapons.
Can he protect her without getting too close? Because his “curse of solitude” doesn’t negotiate, and bad things will happen to Sky if he so much as feels a flutter of affection.
And as if that pressure weren’t enough, his precious store is being looked after by a love-sucking demon and a punk chick who has a knack for insulting everyone. Bigfoot isn’t pleased.
The sooner Damien can get this job done, the faster he can get back to his peaceful life. If only he weren’t enjoying getting his hands dirty again. Just like the good old days that got him in trouble.
The high price of immortality!
The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💚🖤💙❤️
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘📔
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌏🌍
Character development: ☺️😊😁😉🥰
The Hero: Damien – he was a tailor in a fine shop that he owned, his life was simple though he made clothes for supernatural clients including vampires and gods. He had been cursed hundreds of years ago, to live an immortal life all alone. If he even hinted at love or attraction toward someone, that person would die, so he had resigned himself to being alone and liked his simple tailor’s life. However, he had a darkness inside him that nearly took over when he didn’t keep in control. He used to be a weapons expert and a supernatural fixer.
The story: Cimil, the goddess of the underworld showed up in Damien’s shop asking a favor of him. It seems that nine months ago, Cimil’s unicorn hooked up with a hellhound, which is a supernatural no-no. The resulting explosion turned the supernatural world upside down and now everything was out of whack. The gods and goddesses were all thrown into the underworld and their method of escape somehow got all their powers transferred to each other. So now Cimil is now the goddess of death and war, also most immortal creatures like vampires were turned mortal. Cimil wants Damien to return to being a fixer and find out what can be done to set things straight.
The heroine: Sky – She is an investigative journalist with her own online news outlet. She recently got national headlines after outing a group of human traffickers, but weeks later was in the news again when she was attacked by a sex fairy. She didn’t know it was a sex fairy, but explained to police that she was in a changing room at a sports store when a small person with wings was in her underwear trying to get all up in her business.
This story is different than anything I have read before. It was both serious and whimsical. Some of the supernatural things that happened were way out there and almost silly, but still the overall tone of the book was serious, as was Damien. He liked being a fixer, liked going out on the hunt for answers but was a bit afraid of his darkness and that is why he had to keep telling himself that what he really wanted was his simple existence as a tailor.
I kind of love the chaos that was Damien’s life since the start of this book. His life seemed so staid and boring before and now it was filled with all kinds of pandemonium, with supernatural creatures showing up left and right. Ghosts, demons, were eagles, former vampires, gods, fairy’s and even humans. He just wanted them all to leave. Plus he has this dark passenger (like Dexter), living inside him which his father had called his brother, who loved sex and killing, and spoke to him inside his mind. It was crazy but interesting.
“The truth was, no one in his family knew how they had evolved this way. Every male was born a twin.
One good. One bad.
One body to share.
It was always the task of the good twin to stay in command, only allowing the evil brother to assume control when it was required. Fight, survive, defend. The beast that resided within was a weapon.”
As whimsical that this story was, it was also dark in parts, there were more than a few murders, human trafficking, supernatural creatures that were tortured and killed and much more going on than you would expect. There was a big cliffhanger at the end, so I don’t know what will happen next, but I can’t wait to find out.
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