Invincible by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Genre: Young Adult
Sub Genre: Urban Fantasy, Gods, Vampires, Time Travel, Were-People, Demons, Magic
Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars

Back Cover: 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...

This is the second book in the Chronicles of Nick. Nick is hoping life will start to normalize, even though he is now working for a vampire and his mom is working for shapeshifters. Then there is a coach that wants to befriend Nick which is a little weird. There is so much going on in this book and you begin to see how dynamic this world is. Nick is growing as a character and you see a little bit of the character that he becomes in the adult series. I can’t wait to read the next book in this series, Infamous.

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1250002826
Pages: 432
Series: Chronicles of Nick
Volume: 2

Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Genre: Young AdultSub Genre: Urban Fantasy; Zombies, Vampires, Werepeople, ShapeshiftersRating: 5 out of 5 Stars

Back Cover: At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends. . .until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. Nick quickly learns that the human world is only a veil for a much larger and more dangerous one: a world where the captain of the football team is a werewolf and the girl he has a crush on goes out at night to stake the undead. But before he can even learn the rules of this new world, his fellow students are turning into flesh eating zombies. And he’s next on the menu. As if starting high school isn't hard enough. . . now Nick has to hide his new friends from his mom, his chainsaw from the principal, and keep the zombies and the demon Simi from eating his brains, all without getting grounded or suspended. How in the world is he supposed to do that?

This is the first in the Chronicles of Nick series which is a spin-off of Sherrilyn’s Dark Hunter series, per her webpage it both a prequel and a sequel. Nick is a 14 year old kid who if finding out that there are some things that go bump in the night. So much is changing as he is learning about this new world. Then students start to turn into zombies. This is brilliant writing and as a fan of the Dark Hunter world this is great to see some new perspective on what has happened in the past with one of the characters that we get to know in a whole new way. Nick is still smart mouthed as always but your now seeing more into his own world, like what he had to deal with growing up. I loved reading this book and can’t wait to read the next book in the series, Invincible.

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 978-0312603045
Pages: 480
Series: Chronicles of Nick
Volume: 1