To Infinity and Beyond

Phew! Done with school for the week. You have to love getting a day off at the end of the week, it feels amazing. Especially when the weather is so perfectly lovely out! New announcement, but I'm not going to post it on the announcement page. If anyone here cares about James Dashner (awesome author) then go to find out his awesome announcement here: http://jamesdashner.blogspot.com/ It is just some info on his new series of books for grade-school age. Very cool for him!Last post I mentioned I was reading 3 books... Well I finished all 3 already. What? I've been bored! Anyway, without further ado, I'm going to review the book I finished today. Maybe I'll try to get through 2 of them tomorrow....
First up, Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon. By the way, I kind of love this woman's name, don't you? Sorry, off subject. Infinity is about a boy named Nick who lives in New Orleans. He is a regular kid, no dad around and he and his mom barely get by with the money she earns as a... ahem, dancer. He is mistreated by all of the people in his private school, including the principal. One day walking home from his mom's job, Nick gets shot (I won't give away why) and is rescued by a super-cool, ninja-fighting guy all dressed in black. When the strange man says he wants to pay for all of Nick's hospital bills, Nick is reluctant, but Kyrian (the ninja guy) offers Nick a job to pay off the debt. Life is actually taking a turn for the better! But the next day, when Nick goes to school, his fellow classmates are turning into zombies and eating each other! Now Nick's life is really in danger, plus it is full of Vampires, Demons, and even Werewolves, plus some really attractive new girl at school named Nekoda. What ever will he do?! This book is book one in the Chronicles of Nick series.
Infinity sounded really funny to me based on the back of the cover and I have been really excited about reading it. Unfortunately, this book just didn't cut it. Infinity was so clichéd, it sounded like it was written by someone really young who had never experienced any teen feelings and so they just based all of their dialogue on movies that they had watched that took place in high school. All of the reactions were just how you would expect, no surprises, but the reactions weren't well written, and I didn't love any of the characters. And apparently only super attractive women live in the same town at the main character, Nick, because whenever he sees a woman all he talks about is how attractive she is. The way women are portrayed in the book is like the author wanted you to feel like she could create strong, female leads, but it ended up feeling forced. I just felt like she was trying to stick some kind of strong female character in their so the book wasn't as male dominated, and it didn't work. I just really didn't like this book. Was I not clear on that?
Ugh! Just seriously don't read this book. It was not good. I kept being told it was good and it just isn't. It's amateur writing and I don't understand how Sherrilyn Kenyon got to be as popular as she is, or how this book sold enough copies for there to be not just 1, but 2 sequels. I wish I hadn't wasted my time on this book, and I'm trying to save you from the same fate!



Rating: 1.5/5