 | Title: Invincible
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Description
Just when he thought things couldn’t get any worse...
Nick Gautier’s day just keeps getting better and better. Yeah, he survived the zombie attacks, only to wake up and find himself enslaved to a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul.
His new principal thinks he’s even more of a hoodlum than the last one, his coach is trying to recruit him to things he can’t even mention and the girl he’s not seeing, but is, has secrets that terrify him.
But more than that, he’s being groomed by the darkest of powers and if he doesn’t learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week, he will become one of them…
Review
This series is a blast! Sherrilyn Kenyon continues to reinvent the character of Nick Gautier (made famous in her adult paranormal romance series, Dark-Hunter) by turning back the clock to when he was a teenager and allowing him (and those around him) to make different decisions that then ripple out and change his future/history in several key ways. It’s brilliant really because this approach allows both old and new readers to fully embrace the Chronicles of Nick series as a completely separate, yet complimentary, entity.
Nick is once again the same completely self-deprecating character that charmed me in INFINITY. He’s got more friends this time and he’s beginning to scratch the surface of his formidable powers, but he still deals with bullies, his smothering mother, and girl troubles (why is the most popular girl in school suddenly into him?). He also has several new problems to juggle including magic tutoring from Death, a new football coach who literally wants to kill him, and hoards of demons who are trying to collect on the newly placed bounty on his head. Never a dull moment for Nick.
Not quite as good as INFINITY, but still excellent in it's own right, INVINCIBLE is a great read for any age and any sex. While you don’t need to have read the Dark-Hunter series to enjoy this book (and those are definitely not YA), you probably do need to read INFINITY first since INVICIBLE picks up immediately after the events from that book and Kenyon doesn’t waste time rehashing what’s already happened. No word yet on the title or release date for the next book in the Chronicles of Nick book, which frankly borders on cruel given the awesome/horrible way INVINCIBLE ended. Whatever it’s called, wherever it comes out, I’ll be reading it.
Great review! I'm liking this series as well. I didn't think this one was as good as the first book but I still really enjoyed it.
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Paranormal Haven
I loved this baby too! It was so cool to see where Nick came from, wasn't it?
ReplyDeleteGreat review! I really want to read this one since I enjoyed "Infinity". Nick is such a great character.
ReplyDeleteParanormal Haven - Ditto. I'm starting the Dark-Hunter series now too. It's so fun to see Nick in his early twenties too.
ReplyDeleteMagaly - I'm actually going backwards. I've read the YA Nick books and am just know reading about him as an adult, but I'm loving him at any age.
Paranormal & Romantic Suspense Reviews - This series is so much fun. Really different from her adult PNRs.