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4.03 AVERAGE
4.03 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
funny
tense
medium-paced
This is a great teen book. Lot's of action, no language or inappropriate stuff. Just good clean demon, zombie, necromancer type stuff. lol It's a series I would let my 13 yr old read without hesitation. I can't wait for the next one.
This is the second book in the Chronicles of Nick. Things are getting back to normal after the zombie attack. Nick finds himself on the football team with a Coach who is black mailing him into stealing from other students. On top of all that he is still trying to get his head around the fact that he is part demon.
I definitely liked this book more than the first one. I really adore Nick and I am starting to like a lot of the other characters.
Nick gets a job working for Kyrian. A wealthy dark hunter who is sworn to protect people from the supernatural. Kyrian also helps Nick’s mom get a better job as well. This greatly improves Nick’s home situation.
I am still on the fence about Nick’s friends. They are very entertaining and helpful. I think Caleb is hilarious, he can definitely go toe to toe with Nick with the sarcasm. Kody is a lot more mysterious.
I am not a huge fan of her. I think Nick put her on a pedestal from day one and she just made herself a little too comfortable up there.
I give this book a B+
I definitely liked this book more than the first one. I really adore Nick and I am starting to like a lot of the other characters.
Nick gets a job working for Kyrian. A wealthy dark hunter who is sworn to protect people from the supernatural. Kyrian also helps Nick’s mom get a better job as well. This greatly improves Nick’s home situation.
I am still on the fence about Nick’s friends. They are very entertaining and helpful. I think Caleb is hilarious, he can definitely go toe to toe with Nick with the sarcasm. Kody is a lot more mysterious.
I am not a huge fan of her. I think Nick put her on a pedestal from day one and she just made herself a little too comfortable up there.
I give this book a B+
dark
funny
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:
Complicated
Invincible
by Sherrilyn Kenyon
YA Fantasy Paranormal
Scribd audio
Book 2 of the Chronicles of Nick that picks up right where book 1 left off and now there is a brand new principal who instantly thinks Nick is a criminal and a brand new football coach, who believes the same thing and blackmails Nick.
Meanwhile, Nick has a new tutor to show him more of his powers, and he's getting to know those protecting him a little better, and a few of the secrets they were keeping from him.
Not as good as the first book in the series, but there were still funnies and snarky, sarcastic comebacks that had me laughing.
Some of the characters from the first book were left out, but new ones were introduced.
4 Stars
I think I'll be working these books out of my library soon. I swear, I thought the book was just a fun zombie run the first time I read it. But I was also swamped at the time with finals so I might have just read what I wanted to. This book was just too painful to read. At heart it might have been okay. Not the Death thing, I started reading the Disc World novels and no Death can live up to Pratchett's, at least that I found. And this is a rather underwhelming version of Death all around. But I'm getting distracted. Over all, the simple story of getting the stuff for the coach might have been okay.
The problem is that the book is heavily weighed down by all the twists of characters that exist in the book, especially the ones that we know that Nick doesn't. I truly think that it would have been better for the series if we hadn't known these off the bat, but were given subtle clues while the characters developed and interacted with Nick. With us knowing all that is going on, the list for the Coach seems stupid and trivial no matter how the others characters build this Coach guy up. I'm in this weird position of thinking that this is the most interesting plot part of the book, since it seems like it should be the central plot, and the other stuff just seems more important to be building overall and that this is just icing, and shoddily put together icing like that time I tried to make banana pudding.
It's a mess. I'm done with this series. I skimmed the last one hundred pages or more and I don't care.
Bah
The problem is that the book is heavily weighed down by all the twists of characters that exist in the book, especially the ones that we know that Nick doesn't. I truly think that it would have been better for the series if we hadn't known these off the bat, but were given subtle clues while the characters developed and interacted with Nick. With us knowing all that is going on, the list for the Coach seems stupid and trivial no matter how the others characters build this Coach guy up. I'm in this weird position of thinking that this is the most interesting plot part of the book, since it seems like it should be the central plot, and the other stuff just seems more important to be building overall and that this is just icing, and shoddily put together icing like that time I tried to make banana pudding.
It's a mess. I'm done with this series. I skimmed the last one hundred pages or more and I don't care.
Bah
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Brief summary
Nick's world has been turned upside down. Now with full knowledge of the shapeshifters, demons, and hunters around him, Nick has to go through high school learning how to control his new found powers. With the new football coach blackmailing him into stealing his teammates personal belongings. Nick doesn't want to do it, but feels like he has no choice. More than that, if he doesn’t learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week, he will become one himself.
What I liked
Overall I really liked this book. I love the characters. Numerous times I had to stop myself from laughing in public. I would love to see this book get made into a T.V. Show. Each book could be a different season.
What I didn't like
Many things get re-explained from the first book and many times to the same characters (the concept of Daimons get repeated twice to Nick). Sherrilyn reintroduces characters as if we hadn’t met them in the first book as well as repeats their monologues but it’s mainly at the beginning of the book so it doesn’t weigh the rest of the story down.
Also the plot did feel a bit rushed.
Also the plot did feel a bit rushed.
Brief thoughts
Even though I initially gave this book 5 stars I am going to knock it down to 4. That does not mean I still don’t see this as a must read book, it is, It’s just not as gripping as the first book in the series.
Just a side note I find it funny how in the audiobook they can’t agree on how to pronounce Acheron yet they can pronounce Parthenopaeus perfectly.
IMPORTANT:
If you are listening to the audiobook, be aware that the audiobook does skip some sentences and paragraphs from the book and pronounce names differently. For example, in the first book Acheron is pronounced Ak-er-on and in the second it’s pronounced Ash-er-on.
Still a solid narrator, though the beginning was super confusing from where the 1st boom left off (I gave the first one a re-listen before diving in). While this one didn't quite catch me the way the first one did, I might still continue the series- all 8 of them...
This story from this book was quite slow, comparing to the first book. I adored Nick's friends. They're definitely awesome. I'm waiting for the time this series and Dark Hunter series assemble. This must be fun.
I adore 'Ambrose'. I wanna know more what the direction he's going I wanna see the changing of Nick.
I forgot to mention about my attitude towards this series in my last review. I think by reading this series with little memory of Dark Hunter series is giving me new aspect of each characters. It's like you see other aspect of that people....rather than the aspect you're familiar with. At lease, I get the new aspect from Nick's perspective.
I adore 'Ambrose'. I wanna know more what the direction he's going
Spoiler
due to the condition of Nick after Acheron was released from Artemis.I forgot to mention about my attitude towards this series in my last review. I think by reading this series with little memory of Dark Hunter series is giving me new aspect of each characters. It's like you see other aspect of that people....rather than the aspect you're familiar with. At lease, I get the new aspect from Nick's perspective.
I had fun with the story of Nick in this book. I can't decide if I'll read the last though because the details don't line up with the time line. As Kenyon emphasizes Nick's age and his mother's age, the background she created for the mother doesn't add up. Nick is a fourteen year old high school kid who the year before was a big time football player.
Where's the editor?
I think the story is worth reading but I've lost some enthusiasm for the book.
Where's the editor?
I think the story is worth reading but I've lost some enthusiasm for the book.