The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden #1) by Julie Kagawa

This book is extremly good! Is the best post apocalyptic book I've ever read (and I've read a few)

The narrative is excelent, the dialogs are shocking, I want to remember every amazing frase for ever.

My favorite quote in the book is:
"You don't understand now, but you will. There will come a time when the road before you splits, and you must decide your path: Will you choose to become a demon with a human face, or will you fight your demon until the end of time knowing you will forever struggle alone?"

That may sound extreme, pure fantasy and fiction, but how many humans do live with that truth?. To be "good" in real life is very similar to be "human" in this book, it depends a lot (if not completly) on a very unique and personal decision of who to be, and fight against the impulses and desires that goes against the inner paradigm that defines what "to be good" is. For some, the walls and boundaries are formed by religion, morals, values, principles... for others, the darkness is too great to resists, and they become the monsters of our real world.

Here our heroine decides to be "good", to cherish and keep her "humanity", fighting against her instincts and nature, even knowing that all those efforts will never gain her a place amongst those she calls friends, because there is no place for a vampire amongst humans.

You will find the kind of writing that validates the premise "words can change us", and you will be able to experience how one single sentence has the power to change the history of a character, the view of the reader, and the inner perspective of the person holding the book.

It changed my perspective on many topics and subjects... vampires, hunger, surviving, living, existing, being, belonging... it is very unexpected to find this grade of depth in a book about "vampires", but the thing is that this book is not about vampires, it's about people trapped in a world where very few really can "live", where most can only fight to survive, without daring to ask themselves if it's still worth it to exist in a world without future, without hope.

Little by little the story teach that true hope comes from within, not from prospects, facts or plausible possibilities. That the most valuable thing a being can have is the hability to believe that IT is possible DESPITE odds, reality, and common sense.

I recommend this book, it is in the "Must Read" list of for ever.