The Infinity Courts
Akemi Dawn Bowman
The Infinity Courts #1
Published April 8th 2021
(Simon Pulse)
482 Pages
5/5 Stars
SYNOPSIS
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.
REVIEW
This book is like a rollercoaster. You make the slow and steady ascendent, and then, all of a sudden, you come crashing downwards. It's thrilling, exciting, and utterly terrifying.
In this book, you meet Nami who has the perfect life planned out. She's got a supportive family, friends, and a date to go to. But that all is unended when she is murdered. She then wakes up and finds herself in Infinity, where the human consciousness goes after death. She is thrust into the middle of a rebellion and struggles to find her place.
The Infinity Courts does what other rebellion-driven story has done. It makes you question your reality and feelings, like "Is the "bad side" truly bad?" This book toys with the idea of morality, and what it means to be a good person, a theme highly relevant in the real world right now. It also deals with the ethics of wiping out an entire race. I bring that up because I tend to see the idea of genocide "glorified" in some fantasy books and I love how Bowman approached the topic.
This blends into my next point. Nami. I truly think Nami is the best main character I have ever read about. I love how human she is, her strong morals, and her empathy. It's been so long since I have deeply related to the main character like I did with Nami. She finds herself between two sides and never once villainizes them. Her strong morals make her an outcast in the rebellion but she never changes.
I loved all the relationships in this book. The found family within the rebellion was so refreshing to see and Nami and Gil's relationship- Ugh enemies to lovers perfection. Gil keeps Nami centered and I loved seeing their relationship progress.
NOW THE ENDING. PAIN. Okay so, I am not often surprised and ending because I can usually predict them. But this one hit me like a truck. I audibly gasped and it left me desperately wanting the next book.
This is honestly my favorite read of the year so far and I will never be the same after this...
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