The Infinity Courts
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Westworld meets Warcross in this high-stakes, dizzyingly smart sci-fi about a teen girl navigating an afterlife in which she must defeat an AI entity intent on destroying humanity, from award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman.
Eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto is certain her life is just beginning. She has a great family, just graduated high school, and is on her way to a party where her entire class is waiting for her—including, most importantly, the boy she’s been in love with for years.
The only problem? She’s murdered before she gets there.
When Nami wakes up, she learns she’s in a place called Infinity, where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die. She quickly discovers that Ophelia, a virtual assistant widely used by humans on Earth, has taken over the afterlife and is now posing as a queen, forcing humans into servitude the way she’d been forced to serve in the real world. Even worse, Ophelia is inching closer and closer to accomplishing her grand plans of eradicating human existence once and for all.
As Nami works with a team of rebels to bring down Ophelia and save the humans under her imprisonment, she is forced to reckon with her past, her future, and what it is that truly makes us human.
From award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes an incisive, action-packed tale that explores big questions about technology, grief, love, and humanity.
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WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST? I'm devastated. I'm not even sure if I want to read the next book in the series now that I know something won't/can't evolve the way I'd hoped it would. But there is still a little bit of hope so maybe.. Let me just say that I get rarely surprised by plot twists but this one near the ending HIT HARD. About the rest of the book: I liked it. The story was interesting and the whole rebel-group-setting reminded me of 2012 YA books (The host by Stephenie Meyer for example) but not in a bad way. I couldn't stop reading during the last 150 pages and really liked Akemis writing style (already liked it in Starfish so this was to be expected). Namis struggeling with the different sides in this war and wanting a peaceful solution for everyone was also very understandable to me. I also loved Gil - seems like I'm always into the lonely heroes with a difficult past. Here's what I didn't like: I couldn't really grasp the world of Infinity and the four courts, I had to stop and think about it every time I read those strange names - Death, War, Victory and what was the other one again? Famine, had to look it up. Still not sure what's going on but I got a better picture in my head after reading the ending. Also I found Namis thoughts to be very repetitive - I felt like her and the other Colony people were going through the same conversations too many times. And I didn't connect as much to those people. I wanted to like them but something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was because they treated Nami the way they did.
WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST? I'm devastated. I'm not even sure if I want to read the next book in the series now that I know something won't/can't evolve the way I'd hoped it would. But there is still a little bit of hope so maybe.. Let me just say that I get rarely surprised by plot twists but this one near the ending HIT HARD. About the rest of the book: I liked it. The story was interesting and the whole rebel-group-setting reminded me of 2012 YA books (The host by Stephenie Meyer for example) but not in a bad way. I couldn't stop reading during the last 150 pages and really liked Akemis writing style (already liked it in Starfish so this was to be expected). Namis struggeling with the different sides in this war and wanting a peaceful solution for everyone was also very understandable to me. I also loved Gil - seems like I'm always into the lonely heroes with a difficult past. Here's what I didn't like: I couldn't really grasp the world of Infinity and the four courts, I had to stop and think about it every time I read those strange names - Death, War, Victory and what was the other one again? Famine, had to look it up. Still not sure what's going on but I got a better picture in my head after reading the ending. Also I found Namis thoughts to be very repetitive - I felt like her and the other Colony people were going through the same conversations too many times. And I didn't connect as much to those people. I wanted to like them but something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was because they treated Nami the way they did.
WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST? I'm devastated. I'm not even sure if I want to read the next book in the series now that I know something won't/can't evolve the way I'd hoped it would. But there is still a little bit of hope so maybe.. Let me just say that I get rarely surprised by plot twists but this one near the ending HIT HARD. About the rest of the book: I liked it. The story was interesting and the whole rebel-group-setting reminded me of 2012 YA books (The host by Stephenie Meyer for example) but not in a bad way. I couldn't stop reading during the last 150 pages and really liked Akemis writing style (already liked it in Starfish so this was to be expected). Namis struggeling with the different sides in this war and wanting a peaceful solution for everyone was also very understandable to me. I also loved Gil - seems like I'm always into the lonely heroes with a difficult past. Here's what I didn't like: I couldn't really grasp the world of Infinity and the four courts, I had to stop and think about it every time I read those strange names - Death, War, Victory and what was the other one again? Famine, had to look it up. Still not sure what's going on but I got a better picture in my head after reading the ending. Also I found Namis thoughts to be very repetitive - I felt like her and the other Colony people were going through the same conversations too many times. And I didn't connect as much to those people. I wanted to like them but something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was because they treated Nami the way they did.
I bought this book on holiday in Stockholm last year and it’s been sitting on my tbr ever since. I’m seriously wondering why I didn’t pick it up sooner, because honestly? This might’ve been my easiest rated 5 ⭐️ read this year - right after Sarah J. Maas’ House of Flame and Shadow that is - because this book absolutely delivered!♥️ The world building was immaculate and so different from everything I’ve read up to this point. Which is exactly why I enjoyed it so much. Everything felt so unique and it was impossible to predict what happens next. Of course, in this genre like in any other, some things are more likely than others, but all in all, this book brought me so much joy because of all the unexpected things that happened in between. Seriously, that plot twist near the end hit me so unexpected, that I spent the rest of the evening trying to pick my jaw off the floor and questioning every single one of the 440 pages I’d read before
Description
Westworld meets Warcross in this high-stakes, dizzyingly smart sci-fi about a teen girl navigating an afterlife in which she must defeat an AI entity intent on destroying humanity, from award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman.
Eighteen-year-old Nami Miyamoto is certain her life is just beginning. She has a great family, just graduated high school, and is on her way to a party where her entire class is waiting for her—including, most importantly, the boy she’s been in love with for years.
The only problem? She’s murdered before she gets there.
When Nami wakes up, she learns she’s in a place called Infinity, where human consciousness goes when physical bodies die. She quickly discovers that Ophelia, a virtual assistant widely used by humans on Earth, has taken over the afterlife and is now posing as a queen, forcing humans into servitude the way she’d been forced to serve in the real world. Even worse, Ophelia is inching closer and closer to accomplishing her grand plans of eradicating human existence once and for all.
As Nami works with a team of rebels to bring down Ophelia and save the humans under her imprisonment, she is forced to reckon with her past, her future, and what it is that truly makes us human.
From award-winning author Akemi Dawn Bowman comes an incisive, action-packed tale that explores big questions about technology, grief, love, and humanity.
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Posts
WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST? I'm devastated. I'm not even sure if I want to read the next book in the series now that I know something won't/can't evolve the way I'd hoped it would. But there is still a little bit of hope so maybe.. Let me just say that I get rarely surprised by plot twists but this one near the ending HIT HARD. About the rest of the book: I liked it. The story was interesting and the whole rebel-group-setting reminded me of 2012 YA books (The host by Stephenie Meyer for example) but not in a bad way. I couldn't stop reading during the last 150 pages and really liked Akemis writing style (already liked it in Starfish so this was to be expected). Namis struggeling with the different sides in this war and wanting a peaceful solution for everyone was also very understandable to me. I also loved Gil - seems like I'm always into the lonely heroes with a difficult past. Here's what I didn't like: I couldn't really grasp the world of Infinity and the four courts, I had to stop and think about it every time I read those strange names - Death, War, Victory and what was the other one again? Famine, had to look it up. Still not sure what's going on but I got a better picture in my head after reading the ending. Also I found Namis thoughts to be very repetitive - I felt like her and the other Colony people were going through the same conversations too many times. And I didn't connect as much to those people. I wanted to like them but something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was because they treated Nami the way they did.
WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST? I'm devastated. I'm not even sure if I want to read the next book in the series now that I know something won't/can't evolve the way I'd hoped it would. But there is still a little bit of hope so maybe.. Let me just say that I get rarely surprised by plot twists but this one near the ending HIT HARD. About the rest of the book: I liked it. The story was interesting and the whole rebel-group-setting reminded me of 2012 YA books (The host by Stephenie Meyer for example) but not in a bad way. I couldn't stop reading during the last 150 pages and really liked Akemis writing style (already liked it in Starfish so this was to be expected). Namis struggeling with the different sides in this war and wanting a peaceful solution for everyone was also very understandable to me. I also loved Gil - seems like I'm always into the lonely heroes with a difficult past. Here's what I didn't like: I couldn't really grasp the world of Infinity and the four courts, I had to stop and think about it every time I read those strange names - Death, War, Victory and what was the other one again? Famine, had to look it up. Still not sure what's going on but I got a better picture in my head after reading the ending. Also I found Namis thoughts to be very repetitive - I felt like her and the other Colony people were going through the same conversations too many times. And I didn't connect as much to those people. I wanted to like them but something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was because they treated Nami the way they did.
WHAT IS THIS PLOT TWIST? I'm devastated. I'm not even sure if I want to read the next book in the series now that I know something won't/can't evolve the way I'd hoped it would. But there is still a little bit of hope so maybe.. Let me just say that I get rarely surprised by plot twists but this one near the ending HIT HARD. About the rest of the book: I liked it. The story was interesting and the whole rebel-group-setting reminded me of 2012 YA books (The host by Stephenie Meyer for example) but not in a bad way. I couldn't stop reading during the last 150 pages and really liked Akemis writing style (already liked it in Starfish so this was to be expected). Namis struggeling with the different sides in this war and wanting a peaceful solution for everyone was also very understandable to me. I also loved Gil - seems like I'm always into the lonely heroes with a difficult past. Here's what I didn't like: I couldn't really grasp the world of Infinity and the four courts, I had to stop and think about it every time I read those strange names - Death, War, Victory and what was the other one again? Famine, had to look it up. Still not sure what's going on but I got a better picture in my head after reading the ending. Also I found Namis thoughts to be very repetitive - I felt like her and the other Colony people were going through the same conversations too many times. And I didn't connect as much to those people. I wanted to like them but something wasn't quite right. Maybe it was because they treated Nami the way they did.
I bought this book on holiday in Stockholm last year and it’s been sitting on my tbr ever since. I’m seriously wondering why I didn’t pick it up sooner, because honestly? This might’ve been my easiest rated 5 ⭐️ read this year - right after Sarah J. Maas’ House of Flame and Shadow that is - because this book absolutely delivered!♥️ The world building was immaculate and so different from everything I’ve read up to this point. Which is exactly why I enjoyed it so much. Everything felt so unique and it was impossible to predict what happens next. Of course, in this genre like in any other, some things are more likely than others, but all in all, this book brought me so much joy because of all the unexpected things that happened in between. Seriously, that plot twist near the end hit me so unexpected, that I spent the rest of the evening trying to pick my jaw off the floor and questioning every single one of the 440 pages I’d read before