I was excited when Rummanah asked me to pop by and write a guest review of the first book in Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Chronicles of Nick series, Infinity.  I've read many of her adult books and was intrigued by the concept of a young adult series based on the adolescence of Nick Gauthier, whom we meet and come to love in the Dark-Hunter series.
     The successful Dark-Hunters series follows a group of warriors, per se, who give up their souls and pledge fealty to the Greek goddess Artemis by becoming a Dark-Hunter in exchange for one shot at avenging their deaths.  They spend their nights hunting Daimons--cursed Apollites, who are very much like vampires only they live off souls, not blood.  Many of the Dark-Hunters have squires, humans who can tend to their needs during daylight, as they will die if exposed to sunlight, and that’s where I first met Nick; he was introduced early on as squire to Kyrian. As the series progresses, we see the friendship between him and the incredibly powerful and mysterious wrangler of the Dark-Hunters, Acheron Parthenopaeus grow, and then implode.

Description: Fourteen year-old Nick Gauthier’s already messed up life suddenly takes an even stranger turn when he tries to thwart his friends’ plot to mug two innocent tourists; his so-called friends shoot him. This incident seems to be the beginning of a chain of interesting paranormal events, leading Nick to discover that in New Orleans nothing is what it seems. If being a low-income kid attending a private school on scholarship wasn't bad enough, realizing that half the school turns into wolves or bears or that the football team is hell-bent on trying to eat you really takes the cake.

Review:  I devoured Infinity.  It was a quick read, the action pushed along the plot, and Nick as a teenager is just as snarky, witty, and endearing as I found him to be in Kenyon’s adult series.  Although there were a few points that left me scratching my head, I have faith that Kenyon will fill in the gaps in later books.