The Weekly Pour: These Immortal Truths by Rachelle Raeta
Just another New Release Tuesday and our Weekly Pour, TBL friends! We started The Book Lounge because of books exactly like this one. The kind you read in a single sitting with a drink in hand and the dishes still in the sink. The kind you’re still thinking about a week later. The kind you press into someone’s hands and say, just trust me.
We’ve been “thrilling” you lately with newly released Thrillers, but this week, we’re going a little different. These Immortal Truths by Rachelle Raeta releases today, and it is the kind of romantic historical fantasy that converts people. Readers who swore they didn’t read fantasy are finishing this book in tears and immediately buying it for their friends.
We’ve got it on our shelves. Come find out what forever feels like.
A Note From Us
We’re still waiting on our beer and wine license — but our non-alcoholic menu is genuinely something special, and the moment that license lands, our full Idaho craft beer and local wine selection will be ready to celebrate with. The pairing below works beautifully either way.
About the Book
Rachelle Raeta’s debut is one of those rare novels that earns every comparison it gets — and readers have been comparing it to The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue since it first circulated in ARCs. More than a few of them say it does what that book was reaching for, and then some.
England, 1184. Anna has spent years in exile, her vitiligo mistaken for leprosy, surviving on the margins of a world that has rejected her. Then a single act of kindness toward a beautiful stranger — and the taste of a divine peach — changes everything. Suddenly, neither time nor harm can touch her.
As decades stretch to centuries, Anna watches every life she builds slip through her fingers. Friends, lovers, whole worlds — she outlives them all. The only constant, no matter how many years pass or how far she travels, is Khiran: the shapeshifting god who gave her immortality. He always finds her when she needs him most. But there is more to immortality than Anna has been told, and as she moves through the ages, she must reckon with both the beauty and the devastating cost of a life without end.
Told across centuries — from medieval England to Victorian London to the mid-twentieth century — These Immortal Truths is lush, emotionally precise, and deeply romantic. It asks what it really means to live fully when you can never truly lose everything. The answer is not what you’d expect. This is the first book in the Peaches & Honey series — and if the second book is half as good as this one, we’ll be first in line.
Perfect for Fans of: The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab, Outlander by Diana Gabaldon, A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons, Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros
This Week’s Pour:
This Week’s Pairing: Sockeye Hop Water (Zero Alc)
We take pairings seriously here. What you’re sipping should match what you’re reading — which is why we built a genre pairing guide and why our team talks about this stuff genuinely and often.
For These Immortal Truths, a book that spans centuries and feels like stepping into sunlight through old stone, we’re reaching for the Sockeye Hop Water. It’s crisp and bright with a herbal edge — clean enough to let you stay in the world of the book, interesting enough to feel intentional. Zero alcohol, but it drinks like something worth savoring.
There’s something right about pairing a hoppy, botanical water with a story built around a woman who finds beauty in every century she inhabits. It’s the drink version of paying attention.
When That License Lands…
We’re planning to pour the Cinder 2023 Rosé alongside this one — elegant, floral, and just the right weight for a book about a woman who lives through centuries of beauty and loss. Follow us at @thebookloungeid for the announcement.
Come Read With Us
These Immortal Truths is on our shelves starting June 30. Find your copy at The Book Lounge — 33 East Idaho Avenue, Suite 120, in the heart of downtown Meridian, steps from City Hall.
This is a 21+ space, designed for adults who want to stay as long as they want, read as deeply as they want, and talk about books with people who mean it. Non-alcoholic options are stocked and ready. Light bites are on the menu. The chairs are comfortable. No one is rushing you.
We built this place for exactly this kind of book. Come find yours.
Happy Reading (and Sipping!)
The Book Lounge Crew
