Title: Infamous
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Series: The Chronicles of Nick #3
Published: 12 Mar 2012
Length:358 pages
Warnings: violence,
sex references 13+
Source: Publisher
for review
Other info: The
other two in the series, Infinity and Infamous have been reviewed on DB&T.
Currently we have a giveaway of Infinity going-click here. Sherrilyn has also written (not for teenagers)
the Dark Hunter series, the Knights of Avalon and a lot more. The Dark Hunter
series has been adapted into a manga series, that is suitable for teenagers.
Summary : Go to
school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids.
But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even
he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone,
even his own father, tries to kill him. He’s learned to annihilate zombies
and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive
such a difficulty? But that isn’t the primary skill he has to master. Survival
is. And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in
comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has
ever known. Or he’ll be the one who ends the world. With enemies new and
old gathering forces, he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or
he’ll lose everyone he cares about. Even himself.
Review: I think
I’ve said it before. I love this series. I read the Dark Hunter series, I read
the Dark Hunter manga, it just makes sense that I read Infinity. And the next
one. And the next one. Nick’s still in a bad way-finding out that your “uncle”
is yourself from the future, trying to prevent you from being (like his other
attempts at safeguarding you) put into mental hospitals, sucked into
Nether-realms and worse. And as he learns more and more about his powers, and
what he can do, he becomes closer to either saving the world or destroying it.
Just what every fifteen year old needs.
If there’s one great thing about the series (and trust me,
there’s more), it’s the huge mix of characters. We get gods and goddesses,
familiar and unfamiliar, demons (Simi is my favourite thing about this series),
Dark Hunters, vampires (current favourite is Virgil, the lawyer), shapeshifters
(The bears at Sanctuary), a fair amount of humans, and the Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse. At least, I think there’ll be four. We’ve only met two. I want to
meet the others. And Nick of course. The good thing is that, while there’s so
many, I can still keep track of them. If I really wanted to, I could draw out a
neat(-ish) map of character relationships. And all the characters have their
own personalities. Individual, interesting and really good to get friendly with.
Nick is a great character. At the start, there’s a paragraph
that sums up exactly why I love him “Nicholas Ambrosius Gautier-smart mouthed,
streetwise kid. Typical teenager. Gaming guru. Anime and manga obsessed otaku.
Socially awkward around any girl his age. Total evil.” And from there, he just
keeps growing. His relationships with his mother and many other characters
develop, and you see him understand and take control of his powers and general
life a bit more. And his lovely little romance with Kody. Too bad she [ERASED
FOR SPOILER].
As well as the demonic powers coming into play aspect,
there’s also another plot running sideon. A nasty website has been started
saying the worst things about almost everyone. Nick’s attempts to deal with
everything being said about him and his friends are interesting, and his powers
shake a couple of things up, which makes me happy for the characters involved.
The world building is
so good. No, that’s not the right word. The world should have already been
built. The atmosphere. Yes, that’s it. It’s so easy for me to believe that in
New Orleans, there is a set of hunters and paranormal creatures running around
protecting the world from evil. Really, I want to go there. Not just the New
Orleans Kenyon has created, but also New Orleans (the real one in Louisiana).
Overall: Strength 5 to a great continuation in what is
one of my favourite series. Can’t wait for book 4, Inferno. Should probably
catch up with the Dark Hunter series while I’m waiting. But that’s a whole
different thing entirely...
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