Infinity Son

I saw the negative reviews, I knew what reviewers said about Infinity Son, and I refused to believe them.

This book alone should bump all of the books I have reviewed up by a single star because of how much of a mess it was. I hated it. I hated every second of reading this.

The worldbuilding is a mess. Setting a fantasy novel in the present day is a tough cookie to crack which is why a lot of stories (like Silvera's beloved Harry Potter) resort to hidden worlds/communities. Silvera did not and it crumbled on page freaking three.

The characters are boring, uninteresting, and lame with the exception of Ness and Emil but them being somewhat interesting is offset by how much of a douchebag Brighton (yes, there is a character whose name is Brighton in a book about phoenixes...I sighed every time his name came up).

Then we have the worst part of the book, the dumbest, the most awful part of any fantasy book and it's so perfectly summed up in the following quote:

“Maybe this war can be removed from the streets and won online.”

Why is this [expletive] in a fantasy book ? Why is Buzzfeed, YouTube, and Instagram mentioned in a fantasy book? Why a main character, in this fantasy book, obsesses over social media?

Nope.

I finish all book series that I start reading (eventually) but the chances of me picking up Infinity Reaper are pretty much zero.