Series
The Taker / Immortal
Alma Katsu · 3 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story · 2011–2014
Alma Katsu's The Taker opens the Immortal trilogy (plus a linked prequel novella) when a young doctor named Luke meets a woman who reveals she is immortal, and hears how she was abandoned by a lover two centuries earlier and made eternal by a centuries-old Hungarian count who abducted her. The dark historical fantasy continues across The Reckoning and The Descent, with The Devil's Scribe serving as a prequel novella.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
Reading order
The order the books came out.
Best read in the order they were published.
Map
The Taker / Immortal at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
Stats
By decade
- 2010s5
Shape
3 novels · 1 novella · 1 short story
1 author
reads like:historical fantasyimmortalityafterlife & underworld19th centuryemotionaladult
Mood
Grim and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 46%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book4 of 5 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Devil's Scribedarkest · most intense
- The Takerbrightest · calmest