Infinity Son

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Adam Silvera: Infinity Son (2020, Simon & Schuster, Limited)

368 pages

English language

Published March 6, 2020 by Simon & Schuster, Limited.

ISBN:
978-1-4711-8780-3
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3 stars (1 review)

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Review of 'Infinity Son' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

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, …

Subjects

  • Young adult fiction, lgbt
  • Young adult fiction, paranormal, occult & supernatural
  • Young adult fiction, family, siblings