My first review is Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon. This is the second book in the Chronicles of Nick series, a spin off from the Dark Hunter series, which is a fave of mine. It is a Young Adult book but still has enough action to keep me entertained. Plus coming from one of my favourite authors and series it can't go wrong!
Synopsis from Goodreads.com:
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...
My review:
Nick is just recovering from the zombie attacks on his schoolmates and his mom is furious with him for tranquilising her and making her lose her job at the dance club. He received his first ever kiss from Nekoda, but isn't really sure whether she likes him or not; he certainly likes her, but feels a bit uncomfortable about the whole situation. He's ok with his "uncle" Ambrose talking to him in his head, even if he doesn't always like the answers. He's started working for Kyrian Hunter, who also helps get his mom a job at Sanctuary, the local bar run by a pack of werebears.
A new football coach has appeared on the scene to take over a day after the old one was eaten alive by the school-football-team-turned-zombies in the first book. He takes an interest in putting Nick on the team, but fortunately for Nick he was shot in the arm and therefore can't play. However, his coach soon starts blackmailing him to steal some personal items from some of his school friends, including a diamond necklace from Nekoda, which Nick really doesn't want to do. He is helped along the way by Casey, one of the most popular girls in school, who now thinks Nick is cool because he's working for Kyrian, who is rather on the wealthy side! Typical shallow high school prom queen! LOL
Nick is also being trained by a Messenger of Death to learn and control his powers. Nick uses a book to find some answers to a multitude of questions, but the results he gets are usually very cryptic and takes him a while to sometimes work out. Death, however, does have a hidden agenda. He knows that Nick will eventually become the Malachai and wants to control Nick and his powers himself.
When Caleb, Nick's demon guardian, is attacked at school by a Fringe Hunter, Nick tries to use his powers to help, but Caleb throws him into a locker with his own powers. Nick is furious and when he is finally released, Caleb reveals how Nekoda is also a demon, but she is there to help protect Nick's mind not his body like Caleb is. Caleb tells Nick that if he uses his powers the other demons who are trying to find the Malachai will know who he is. But Caleb isn't all he seems to be anymore...
Nick finds out what the new coach is up to - he made a deal with a demon many many years ago - he has to kill people and send their souls to him, usually after winning the football championships. The coach is also trying to find the Malachai to break free of his commitment by killing 14 year old boys. To stop him Nick has to get the heart of the first 14 year old girl the coach killed and get her ghost to merge with her heart again. In the process, Nick damns the coach into the vortex where the girl's spirit had been for years, kills a load of demons and everything is all over...for now.
Simi makes a brief appearance - I totally love Simi and her penchant for eating everything and anything with barbecue sauce! I think she's my fave demon in the Dark Hunter series! She's just so hilarious.
This book was brilliant! Lots of action, some background parts revealed and I love how the love story is starting to develop between Nick and Nekoda. Although this book is a spin off of the Dark Hunter series and some of those characters appear in this book - Acheron, Simi, Kyrian, the Peltiers - the world is slightly different to the original Dark Hunter world, only because Ambrose (Nick in a later life after he became the Malachai) is trying to alter his teenage form's future. I can't wait to see how this slightly alternate world pans out over the series and how Sherrilyn Kenyon makes the two fit together. I love how Sherrilyn writes, so much so I read this book in one sitting!
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