hossz: 309 oldal
nyelv: angol
külföldi megjelenés: 2012. Márc. 13.
kiadó: St. Martin’s Griffin
Értékelés: 4,5 pont
Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him.
He’s learned to annihilate zombies and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive and keep a girlfriend so dang hard? But that isn’t the primary skill he has to master. Survival is.
And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known.
Or he’ll be the one who ends the world. With enemies new and old gathering forces, he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or he’ll lose everyone he cares about.
Even himself.
értékeljünk:
Hmm…. Az eddigi három közül ez volt a kedvencem. Nem annyira vicces, mint az előzőek, persze nem kell aggódni, Nick hozza a szokásos humor herold formáját, de ez a kötet picit már jobban fókuszál a főszálra, a háttértörténetekre (VÉGRE!).
Ismét nagy örömömre sok Kody és Caleb jelenetet kaptunk (nem tudom miért imádom én ezt a kettőt annyira), illetve feltűnik Thorn (I’m in LOVE!) és Asmodeus (aki a Simitől megszokott hülyeséget egy teljesen új szintre emeli) is. Cherise-t még jobban gyűlölöm, mint eddig, Devet pedig még jobban imádom, mint eddig 😀
És az a függővég…basszus!! Már olvasom is a következőt…
Kedvenc idézetek:
“People aren’t just ants rushing around over a crust of bread. Every life, no matter how isolated, touches hundreds of others. It’s up to us to decide if those micro connections are positive or negative. But whichever we decide, it does impact the ones we deal with. One word can give someone the strength they needed at that moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburst or word could be the tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge into destruction.”
“…life isn’t a puzzle to be solved. It’s an adventure to be savored. Let every challenge be a new mountain to climb, not an obstacle to get in your way and stop you. Yeah, it’ll be hard, but once you reach the summit of it, you’ll be able to see the world for what it really is. And at the top, it never seems to have been as difficult a feat to climb there as you first made it out to be. Most of all, you’ll know that you beat that mountain, and that you rule it. It does not rule you.”
“Can you keep a secret?”
“Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain’t nothing going to get out.”
You’ve no real powers, do you?”
“Oh contraire, mon frère. I’m able to annoy all adults in ten syllables or less. Sometimes, I don’t even have to speak at all. I just walk into the room and it rankles them.”
“I can see that,” Thorn said drily.
“In the land of Bad Ass, Acheron reigned supreme.”
“Mistakes don’t have to define us. They’re how we learn and grow. They show us who and what we don’t want to be. It’s why they’re mistakes.”
Chronicles of Nick kritikák:
- Inferno (CON #4)
- Invincible (CON #2)
- Infinity (CON #1)