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** spoiler alert ** Look, don't read the review if you're like me and will be discouraged by what it says, marking little seeds of doubt inside of you and keeping you from being happy when you're reading the book. Read ONLY if you've already read Invincible, because I do not want to deter you from liking the Chronicles of Nick, book 2.


This book was actually quite different from Infinity, so that gave me a nice reprieve whilst reading it.
Invincible was a quicker read, which explained a lot of the events of the first book, which was nice, because I had already forgotten most of the characters introduced to us.
I think, when we were warned about Ash and Caleb in the first book, that many readers were like, seriously? They made us laugh, they made us happy. But in this book, yeah... not so much. We only get to see Ash once, Simi twice (and both are very short moments), and we see a completely rude side of Caleb that wasn't there in the first book. And while we are introduced to Grim, he isn't a very prominent character at all, and in this series, you'd expect Death to get a bit of a spotlight.
I think the problem I had with this book was that it just... didn't add up to my expectations. Ash and Kyrian and Simi and Caleb were four of my favorite characters from Infinity, but in this book, they were given a bad rep, and it wasn't because Nick was being to stubborn to actually believe they were helping him. No, they get a bad reputation purely on their own, which... is quite unusual in YA books, and is making me incredibly exasperated. In book one, it seemed as if Caleb and Nick became friends. In this one, Caleb lets Nick know in excruciating detail that he's only protecting him to be free, and he doesn't much like our hero. Acheron not only appears very, very briefly, but there isn't any sarcastic humor in him at all, which we got a lot of in Infinity.

I don't know. New characters, old characters-- they just... fell... flat. And some, like Tabitha and Eric and whatnot, did not even appear at all in the book. That made me mad, which is why I'm only giving the book four stars. Great book, but... not so great at the same time.
And am I the only one who thought the ending was rough and much too short? Seriously. The "battle" with Devus lasted only a few pages, and the resolution didn't really feel like it was there at all. In fact, the only two ends seemingly tied up were the Gautier's moving houses, and Nick finally realizing who Ambrose really is.

All in all, the book was okay. Prior to reading it, I was reading a book which made me feel really depressed, so reading this one was kind of like reading a good book on a rainy day--it just made things better. I simply wish for two things to happen now with this series:
One, we get our old characters back! And Two, the next one wouldn't take an entire year to be published, because, let's face it, we'll start losing interest in the series, and we'll all feel incredibly impatient. Ms. Kenyon, please, I beg of you, publish Inevitable SOON. Not in a year. Simply as fast as possible. Please.