Review: Immortal Writers

Immortal Writers by Jill Bowers
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Immortal Writers has a fantastic premise. Great writers don’t die. Their words and the stories that they tell allow them to live forever. Not just in the minds of their reader. Actually live forever, in what I guess is kind of an alternate universe. And it’s not just the writer. The best (and worst) characters also appear.

Liz McKinnon is a young author, she’s just about to put the finishing touches on the latest novel in her wildly popular series when she is kidnapped and whisked off to a world even she could never have imagined. The whisking is done by one of her own characters – naturally she doesn’t recognize him because it couldn’t possibly be. Oh, and William Shakespeare? Seriously? Her kidnappers need to do better with the mind games, because she isn’t falling for this… Wait, wait, WAIT! He’s serious, he’s really Shakespeare? And this world is really magic? Was that a dragon?

At this point I’d be a gibbering idiot, but Liz takes it in stride. She discovers that her talent has granted her a place in the Immortal Writers – alongside Shakespeare, Poe, McCaffrey, Wells and so many, many more. The only catch is that she needs to take care of some loose ends, and save the world from destruction by her previously fictional antagonist. No big deal, really.

As I said, great premise. The characters were a little flat, and the romance was a touch underplayed. I get it that when she wrote about her protagonist that he was her ideal of the perfect man, but still, he didn’t write her, so realistically the attraction could have been a little more one-sided and give a chance to build. Overall, a fun story.


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