Blog Tour + Book Review+ Giveaway: The Infinity Courts (The Infinity Courts #1) by Akemi Dawn Bowman
Title: The Infinity Courts
Author: Akemi Dawn Bowman
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Release Date: April 6, 2021
Pages: 482
Genres: Young Adult Fiction- Fantasy, Sci-fi
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.
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.
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**Thank you so much to Simon & Schuster and Turn the Page Tours for sending me an Advanced Reader's Copy in exchange for an honest review as part of the blog tour!**
Nami is murdered before she reaches her high school prom party. When she wakes up again, she realizes she's in Infinity, a place where humans go after death.
This isn't peace—this is a whirlwind of rage and torment building up inside me with nowhere to go.
There Ophelia, a virtual assistant from the human world, has taken over as queen, and the humans are forced to be her servants. Narrowly escaping captivity, Nami discovers that those captured can no longer think on their own.
A strange reservation wells up inside me, and I don't know how to make sense of it. I don't doubt the Colony's motives, or the pain they've suffered at the hands of the Residents. But yesterday I was asking Ophelia to check the weather forecast, and today I'm being asked to join the people who hope to one day destroy her.
Because of her extraordinary powers, Nami is appointed spy by the Colony to try and gather information on Ophelia. Ultimately, their main goal is to take down the queen, but before that, they had to overcome many difficulties.
My parents used to say that some people are just born evil. And maybe that's true. But I think most people are products of what they've been taught. If someone calls you bad or ugly or worthless enough times, you start to believe it. You become those words.
Star Rating: ★★★★★ (5) ♡
Infinity was another one of those amazing worlds I would love to see. The great technological advances in it and the way the Courts were described seemed so unique and different from our world.
I loved Nami and her love for her sister, Mei. Her determination to prevent Mei from living in a future Infinity where Ophelia ruled as queen was so heartwarming.
Overall, The Infinity Courts is a must-read book for 2021. It was super immersing and I finished it in just one sitting. It left off in such a cliff-hanger and oh my gosh I NEED to read the second book like right now!
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About the Author
Akemi Dawn Bowman is a critically-acclaimed author who writes across genres. Her novels have received multiple accolades and award nominations, and her debut novel, STARFISH, was a William C. Morris Award Finalist. She has a BA in social sciences from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and currently lives in Scotland with her husband and two children. She overthinks everything, including this bio. You can find Akemi on Instagram @AkemiDawnBowman.
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