Review: The Deathless One

The Deathless One
Author: Emma Hamm

Series: The Gravesinger

Gallery Books, 2025

ISBN: 9781668063125 (paperback)
9781668063132 (EPUB)
9781668137574 (audiobook)

$26.99 CAD (paperback)
$13.99 CAD (EPUB)
$35.99 CAD (audiobook)

336 pages

Ages: Adult or New Adult

In this fantasy romance novel, Emma Hamm takes readers to a world where the gods are dead, a mysterious plague threatens the kingdom of Inverholm and the only way Princess Jessamine Harmsworth can save it is through a marriage she does not want. The story has a running start in chapter 1, when Jessamine is betrayed and murdered by the groom at the wedding before the story flags and meanders for most of the book. It manages to find its momentum again for the last few chapters, but the overall effect has plot and themes of revenge and “feminine rage” (promised on the back of the book) taking a backseat in favour of romance between Jessamine and the Deathless One. This leaves the book feeling clumsier than it needs to be. The Deathless One can fit New Adult or Adult fantasy-romance collections in public libraries. Emphasis that this book falls firmly in the New Adult genre and not Young Adult (for example, the sex scenes do not fade to black).