Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

Infinity Son by Adam Silvera

6 reviews

anniereads221's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Loveable characters? It's complicated

4.0

I loved this but Oh My Goodness Brighton was so annoying!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Animal death, Body horror, Death, Grief, Kidnapping, Murder, Violence, Animal cruelty, Blood, and Injury/Injury detail

therainbowshelf's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I don’t always enjoy superhero books, but this was a fun take on superhero tropes. I loved the way that natural powers, powers stolen from animals, and phoenixes all combined in this book. The characters were fun, and the pacing was good. Even the dramatic bits were well executed. I felt a little out of touch with the whole war dynamic for some reason. If you hate cliffhangers, not a good book for you.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Fire/Fire injury, Drug use, Blood, Violence, War, Grief, Emotional abuse, Death of parent, and Chronic illness

Moderate: Torture

Minor: Abandonment

sssssoup's review against another edition

adventurous dark reflective tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Murder, Torture, and Violence

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body shaming, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Panic attacks/disorders, and Police brutality

Minor: Bullying, Cancer, Confinement, Drug use, Gun violence, Medical content, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, and Vomit

jenarae's review against another edition

adventurous emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Cancer, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Police brutality, Torture, and Violence

Minor: Vomit

owenblacker's review against another edition

adventurous medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

Infinity Son is a book that I read before publishing my Pride month blogpost, but I didn’t get written up in time to include there. Partly, this was because I just didn’t get on very well with the book.

It’s not a bad novel — especially given it’s a YA book and I’m not the target audience — but there were a couple of elements I didn’t like, and one plot point that just hit one of my personal red buttons and left a bad taste in my mouth, but that probably won’t upset most other readers in the same way.

The broad plot is that, in an alternate New York of a world with magic, 2 brothers idolise the Spell Walkers, superheroes born with magic who fight against “specters”, who steal their magic from endangered magical beasts, like the phoenixes from the museum exhibit where Emil works. Then, in a fight on the Subway, Emil seems to use magic…

I was disappointed with the worldbuilding in a similar way as I was with Bright, the 2017 Will Smith urban fantasy Netflix film I reviewed at the time, where the existence of fairies, elves, orcs and centaurs appear to have had absolutely no other impact on reality. In Infinity Son, New York is thoroughly recognisable as our modern Gotham, but with magic and some extra events that happened in our characters’ backplots; the essential balance of the world is otherwise unchanged.

The book is fine; I initially rated the book with 5 stars (out of 5) immediately after reading it. But I withdrew it from the Pride blogpost because I couldn't bring myself to write it up appropriately and I argued with myself about whether to bring it down to 3 or 4. It’s good, but it didn’t sit with me fondly the way so many of the other books did here.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Confinement, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Mental illness, Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Toxic relationship, and Violence

CN: cruelty, abuse and murder of animals, mental health and depression, hostage capture, murder, frequent mention of deaths of parents, uncomfortable sibling dynamics. Also, I just plain didn’t like some of the characters, albeit in ways that are clearly intentional.

alyxinthestars's review against another edition

adventurous emotional fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death, Body horror, and Torture

Moderate: Animal death and Drug use

Minor: Death of parent