Infinity Reborn

The Infinity Trilogy #3

by S. Harrison

Perfection has its price, and humanity is about to pay…unless seventeen-year-old Finn Blackstone can stop the looming threat. Her father, a brilliant but mad global tech tycoon, has deemed humanity too flawed to tolerate, and he’s determined to pave the way for a superior species. Finn is the only one capable of foiling his apocalyptic schemes, but she’s being held captive―not only physically but also by the dark secrets and darker impulses within her own fractured mind. Though her allies are dwindling and she has been betrayed by those she trusted most, Finn makes a desperate attempt to free herself and races to save humanity from total annihilation. To succeed, she must finally accept the truth about what she really is―and embrace the terrifying power she has possessed all along.

Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction, Fiction, Dystopia, Ebooks, Audiobook, Fantasy

364 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2016

About the author

Librarian Note:
There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

S. Harrison is an author from New Zealand, where he often indulges in his love of watching superhero movies and art house films. He frequently escapes to the many islands of the South Pacific, where he is hard at work on his writing. Infinity Lost is his first novel.

Reviews

[Ken · Rating 2 out of 5]

Three books to detail a few hours in a single day

Yes, a trilogy so detailed it took the author three novels to tell his story.

The basic premise showed originality and much promise. The story of a wealthy young girl who can do amazing things. Her recluse Father the richest man on Earth and also a scientific genius who invents things that help mankind. But what is Finn/Infinity?

They go on a school trip to her Father's manufacturing compound. There all Hell breaks loose as the computer system goes haywire and security protocols are invoked. The students are hunted by killer robots (just where have we seen that theme of late?).

Most of books one, two, and three are about the student's fight to stay alive. And here is where it loses credibility. As robots hunt the invaders, wanton destruction happens as security robots shoot and destroy just about everything. That just doesn't make any sense. Why? Think about it, would security wreak havoc on the buildings and areas it's meant to protect? Nope, that destruction didn't make sense. And once I realised that, I kept praying for the book to end, and end fast. But it didn't. It dragged through battle after battle, until finally it reached a quick, and expected, conclusion.

Did I guess the end? I was close - I figured out much of what was going on, but not all. And even in ending, some things didn't make sense.

SPOILERS AHEAD





Okay, what happens with Nanny? First she's a killer entity without much emotion except for hate and one question gets her to change? Deus ex Machina!

And Daddy recorded his brain once a week. But as soon as he's amongst the dearly departed, he knows what's been going on, even up to the minute he left? I'm not buying it. It's just another deus ex machina.

And Daddy was already out in the world, right? So what happened to him? If Nanny and Mom are going to be around, then where's Daddykins?


Well, these books were cheap, and you really do get what you pay for, really!

As far as recommending them? Nope, nada, non, nein, etc. But if the author ever rewrites them, to condense the hours of battle to a few key fights, and expands the story to explain, really explain, Infinity, then I might recommend them. Until then, stay away. Sorry, but this is my opinion.

[Sara Suseyi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yep - just 2 days to read this book. It was a fantastic finale to the series. I highly recommend this series for any sci-fi fan.

[Erika · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had so many expectations for this book, I wanted this to be good, and for the most part it was, but I like to get closure, I like my books to answer my questions and don't let loose ends, but, even if it managed to answer the big questions, there were a lot of things that were left in the air and that I just don't understand, for example:

- Why or how Nanny Theresa could be Finn's grandmother and hate her so much? When she was little she should have seen her good side and loved her, she was capable of that if the end is anything to go by. And how Geneivere couldn't make her understand that she was innocent before?

- How could Captain Delgado let them use his son like that? And why did they have to take Carlo's voice away if Infinity didn't remember him anyway? And apparently he didn't remember either, so?

- How could Finn continue being a Blackstone and continue her life unaffected after the children of the most influential people in the world died at her father's compound? They should have taken everything from her with lawsuits and things like that.

- I don't get how Mariele could have Bit and still keep working at Blackstone Manor, shouldn't she have been with her daughter? And how did her mother end up with Bit.

- And they never explained why they had Mariele locked up in Graham's laboratory or what they were doing to her.

- And Jonah, I still don't get why he thought it was a good idea to constantly mess with Finn's memory or how if he loved her so much allowed them to use her like that. Or why he kept Carlo from her. It was never clear if he really loved her or not, his actions showed another thing, not matter how much he claimed to love her. And how did she go from being hurt and trying to kill him to not want him to die?

- Onix claimed that he was overwhelmed after he found his morality, but how finding your morality makes you a killing machine? Shouldn't it be the opposite?

- They never say what happened to Captain Delgado and Finn's revenge, he is Carlo's father after all, what would happen there?

So it was a story with a lot of potential, but I think that the author should have removed the stuff that wasn't important instead of letting it hanging in the air unexplained. Some of the elements were good, and others were too crazy. I think if they had taken the time to really explain the situation from the beginning things would have gone differently.

The book starts with Finn waking to find Jonah there and being afraid after everything she remembered, she then gets angry and attacks him, but doesn't kill him. She then starts going crazy and they found out that she isn't wearing her necklace and that is making her mind fracture, so they find it and put it on again and she forgets everything again. They are trying to find a way to escape the place, and they go into two groups, then one of them is attacked by one of the Saviors that is being controlled by a machine and the two of the students go away on their own. As the rest go their separate ways to fulfill their part, Finn starts having hallucinations with Infinity trying to get control of her body. They are almost at the first building when they are attacked and they lose Brody and then Finn is injected with a paralyzing drug and the leave her there while going to look for Bit computer. While immobilized Infinity again attacks Finn and they are both locked in their mind where Finn gets a little bit of control and starts watching some memories, but after watching the memory where she attacks Jonah Infinity manages to regain control and decides to go find her father to kill him.

While Infinity is moving, Finn is able to see what's going on, and they find Brody, Infinity helps him, but then sends him alone, only later they see Gazelle, one of the Saviors that's being controlled, and see that she is going to where Brody is, since Gazelle already killed an innocent, Infinity can't let her kill Brody, and Finn shows her that her feelings are just hers and not Finn's, that she really cares for them. So Infinity arrives in time to save Brody, but is hurt, and Finn regains control of the body. Together they manage to free Gazelle, and then discover that Bit and Graham were taken hostage by Nanny Theresa and go help them. There they find Finn's mother, another virtual entity, and she helps them fight Theresa. She kills Graham, her husband, because he is trying to initiate Project Infinity, and tries to kill Finn, but after her mother revealed that Theresa is her grandmother, she uses that information to make her change her mind, and she becomes their ally.

They go to fix the computer so they can regain control, but they are fooled by another Project Infinity enthusiast that uses Bit to initiate the project, using her as a bridge between reality and the computers, Finn tries to help and they both their minds get trapped in the computer. Finn tries to stop Bit, but she is too excited to listen. Inside the computer she finds another AI that's torturing her mother, an AI that fell in love with her father and hated her mother, because she thought that she had taken him away from her, and considered Finn her daughter. We finally learn that Infinity was created when Sable infected her mother with quantum particles, causing Infinity to become a hybrid, capable of using quantum particles to modify her own body, even if her mother died in the process. She finds that her father plans to do the same to everyone, but only babies can survive the process, and 95% of the population is going to die when the particles are activated. Finn finally gets to meet her father, using a quantum construct while her mind is trapped in the computer, and after seeing he is really mad she kills him and then tries to stops Project Infinity, but it seems like they are going to fail, so she tells Brody to kill Bit. She doesn't die, but the pain makes her recover her mind and start working on fixing the problem, making Sable disappear and bringing Onix back. His fixes almost everything, and as they are planning on using a powerful military weapon to destroy the complex, Finn's father's virtual entity arrives and changes the attack's time to make sure they die too, but they manage to escape. As they are escaping one of the kids shoots Jonah. They make another stop to rescue Bit's mother, who she thought was her sister, and they waste too much time, and as they are flying away their transport suffers from the explosion and Jonah gets worse, and is dying, so he asks Finn for forgiveness and tell her that she and Infinity are the same, and that she will find that her mind is no longer fractured, then deactivates Carlo's protocols so he can talk again and remember Finn.

Then we see Finn back at the Manor talking to Onix, and we see that three years had gone and she has a date with Carlo.

[Juanita Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was a little down in the end

I wanted to see a bit of the relationship between Carlo and Finn. All in all, the entire series is fast paced and a pleasure to read.

[Prachi Gupta · Rating 4 out of 5]

The trilogy is an interesting & captivating story, writing style hinders it.

My reactions to this trilogy are similar to many of the other reviewers. Overall very action packed story that was arbitrarily cut into 3 books. The events happen over a single day, there was no need for multiple books. It was an interesting choice to pair such an action packed storyline with so much useless descriptive prose. It slowed the story down in seemingly random parts. The story itself was interesting which is why I felt compelled to read the entire trilogy. If it was not part of kindle unlimited I likely wouldn't have.

[Christopher · Rating 1 out of 5]

I literally have no idea what's going on in this final volume.

The narrative shifts and multiple personalities between "Finn" and "Inifinty" are so frequent and unexplained that it's impossible to keep track of. Revelations in one chapter ("this person is bad") are ignored or contradicted (without explanation) shortly thereafter ("this person is good"). Multiple plot threads are teased and then dropped (threatened pandemics, secret teams of codenamed soldiers, etc etc). Critical characters are introduced WAY too late in the book and function solely as deus ex machinas.

Uggh.

[Christina · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was a bit choppy. It was hard to follow and there are some aspects that have no finality. It was a pretty good story buy it was a lot of work. I wanted answers and a feeling of conclusion. I only got about half of each. It is well worth reading but if you are like me and like the questions to be tidied up by the end, you will be a bit disappointed. Reading the other books made it too hard for me to skip on this once. I think it is at least as good as book 2, possibly even better, but I liked book 2 more and book 1 the most.

[Taylor Chaos · Rating 1 out of 5]

This Trilogy started out soo promising. I by the third book just wanted to stop. I guessed what would happen, and it did. But it did so, in the most stupid generic way. From beginning to the end of this book, I was REALLY hoping that Infinity, would take over. The main character fin, kept saying things like "I'm the strong one!" less than two lines later, "Infinity where are you!?" 'I need your strength!?'... This is how you are strong? You're strong because you ask for help on the actually physically strong one? Okay, I understand that physical strength isn't the only kind of strength there is. However that discounts the fact that Fin is the strong one, that is asking for help from the weak one, constantly. I didn't see the point in that, and that she does this multiple times, made me want to bash my face in. You can't be strong and than demand help, from someone that is weaker than you, according to you. Obviously, that was supposed to show how infinity/fin are having an internal conflict and that they realize that it's better to work together instead of against each other. Again make the prediction on the second book, but I was hoping infinity won, she did not. Yeah, the ending no enjoyable for me, so much so that if I didn't finish it, I would have still walked away not losing anything.

[Jeff · Rating 5 out of 5]

What. A. Rush! In this epic conclusion to the Infinity Trilogy, we get most of the answers to the questions we've been asking all along, though little closure to anything. (The "epilogue", such as it exists, is barely 1 page long.) And yes, there are bits and pieces of seeming inconsistency - without giving too much away, at one point there is a Kinetic Kill Vehicle mentioned (ie, a space=based solid metal pole, which is how it is described in the book). Except that when it is finally used, it goes off like a nuclear detonation - which KKVs do *not* do.

The most important thing to remember about this Trilogy is that it was never really about the events that finally get answered and resolved in the final third of this third book of the trilogy - literally the last 1/9th of the saga. This Trilogy is about Finn/Infinity and the struggle for her to learn who and what she is. And in that particular arena, this book and this Trilogy truly shines - and gives us the most answers and resolution.

One of the best sci-fi sagas I've read of late.

[xalida suleymanova ✰ 813 · Rating 5 out of 5]

İki kitablıq burulğanlı beyindən sonra üçüncünün bu cür aydınlıq yaradıb, demək olar ki, bütün suallara cavab verməsi çox əla idi.
Düşünəndə, amma bəzi nöqtələrə əsəbiləşməyə bilmirəm; oxuyanda biləcəyiniz, Tereza dayə səhnəsi məni cinləndirdi😂
Son səhnə isə emosianal idi, amma bu qədər çatapatın içində bir az daha duyğu qata bilərdi yazıçı, zənnimcə:)
Nəticədə, oxuyub bitirdikdə və həmçinin oxuduqca, müəllif haqqında "necə də ağıllı birisidir" deyə düşünməyə bilmirəm.

Başqa detallara toxunsam, tərcümə həmişəki kimi yaxşı idi.

Kitab mənə demək olar, çox tez-tez "Alita. Battle Angel"i xatırladırdı. Həm kitabı oxuyub, həm filmi izləsəz, sizə də bəlkə elə gələr.

Belə. Maraqlı fantastik seriya idi. Oxuduğum digər fantastik kitablardan daha rəqəmsal və fərqli idi😁
Nə isə. Xoş mütaliə oldu.

Boş vaxtınız olsa və, əgər fantastika sevirsinizsə, içinə də texnika və kompyuterlər, kvant zərrəcikləri qatılmış bu kitab tam sizlikdir😁🖖🏾🖖🏾

[Christine Kayser · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked books 1 and 2 in this series, but this one kind of lost me at times. The characters are great, and I really enjoy them. But the story meanders a lot. It didn't feel like we were driving to one central point, but just surmounting new challenges every few chapters. It felt a little like hitting the big boss in a video game, except that we hit the boss level at least once every fifth chapter or so. I also think a lot of the character development feels convenient. They're presented with a challenge and conveniently discover that they have a power / talent that is perfectly suited to handle this exact situation.

I enjoyed the trilogy overall, but this one wasn't the page-turner that parts 1 & 2 were.

[Evander Fragoso · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you're interested in innovative science fiction, this series is a must read. I really enjoyed all three books, the character exploration, and the glimpse into an incredibly advanced world with a mysterious mastermind behind all of the innovations. Mr. Blackstone is the man that the world has to thank for just about every piece of technology that they use on daily basis, and not even his daughter, Infinity, knows much about him.

Infinity attends a school for the extremely wealthy, and while things are going great for her, she has started to have dreams of another life where she is a brutal assassin with absolute control over her body. She is able to run faster and hit harder than humanly possible, harden her bones and skin so that they are like steel, and heal near-fatal injuries. It turns out that the dreams are a reality. There is another person inside of Infinity, who is a cold hearted killer. While her amazing hacker friend manages to hack into Blackstone Industries to land a class trip to a super top secret base, so that Infinity can talk to the father that she's only seen once or twice all her life, something twists the ai that controls the most advanced science facility in the world and turns the high tech walking machines of death on a killing spree.

And to prevent any big spoilers, I'm gonna stop there! The first book really hooks you in, and pushes you along into the next two. If any of that is around your ballpark, or if you're interested in a very intense internal struggle with the fight to become a dominant personality in a single body, you should preview it for sure, and if the writing style suits you, enjoy!

[Barbara Trice · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, I just finished number 3 in the Infinity Trilogy!

Number three in the infinity trilogy is the best of them all ! I hope I will be able to find more books by this author. I love the way he tells a story. The characters are all so believable even though this is really a fantasy story the likes of none I have read before. I loved every word! I would recomend these books to anyone who loves a great read.

An Amazon reader

[Ian M. Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

Terrific series.

I thoroughly enjoyed this series. Well written, interesting characters with an intriguing story in a fascinating world. Some of this could easily become true which likely makes it scarier. I did feel that it seemed to get a little too neat and tidy in favour of our protagonists towards the end but I've felt that with a fair few books so it is likely just me.

Oh and I'd like Infinitiy's abilities.

Highly recommended.

[Jennifer Marohn · Rating 3 out of 5]

strange

This book can be summed up with one word, strange. It’s kind of all over the place, but goes into huge amounts of detail. It’s so different, in my opinion, from the first two books. In those books, there is a clear “bad guy,” but in this one it keeps changing and I had trouble following along with that. At points I was like wait isn’t that person supposed to be bad, only to remember they gained a conscience at some point.

[Teresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Adventure!

I really liked how there were secrets that were revealed in the last book which tied the entire story together. The characters were great although Professor Francis was quite annoying near the end. There was a great combination of action, friendship, family, mystery, and suspense.

[Karen Guerrero-Belfort · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun book

It was a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. Nice twists and turns to keep it interesting. The only issue is that the author really kept all the reveals until the end instead of spreading them out a bit more evenly in books 2 and 3. The exposition sometimes slowed the story down. But otherwise, very good.

[Heather Walker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I waited impatiently for this final book in the series. The first two I flew through and just couldn't wait to see what happened with the main character. I appreciated that the author wasn't afraid to break from the normal story flow and through some curve balls in that kept me even more on the edge of my chair. This was a book I could not put down. I highly recommend reading this series.

[Carly Kirk · Rating 5 out of 5]

It always sucks when a great series comes to an end... but I'm really glad I got to go along for the ride that the author created. It was action packed with plenty of twists thrown in that took me by surprise. Can't wait for Mr. Harrison to write more books!

[Danielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

After getting past books 1&2, I couldn't not read 3. It was action packed from start to end - and though somewhat predictable, also had enough twists to keep it interesting. Wrapped up most of the loose ends (though frustratingly not all), making it a fairly satisfying conclusion to the series.

[Steven · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent books. Overly detailed in my opinion though. Good enough to have read the series. I think the battles scenes could have been a little less detailed and still have pulled it just the same. Decent books still tho

[Philip · Rating 5 out of 5]

Crazily intense trilogy

It's been an intense ride reading this trilogy, and I really can't stop so that I managed to finish the trilogy in just 5 days (minus taking care of my kids)

[Andrea Payne · Rating 5 out of 5]

Infinity Reborn

This was definitely the best of the Infinity "Trilogy". I actually enjoyed reading it and am glad I stuck with it. It was still too wordy and it still should have been part of one book but super glad I kept reading.

[Julie Grey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great series!

Little confusing jump from 1 to 2 & 3, but enjoyed these very much! Great main character, & exciting read.

[shari taylor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome story.

This is such a good story. I can't believe the depth of imagination this author has. I recommend it to everyone!

[Jennifer Meierotto · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hard to put down

Constant action and futuristic technology kept me engrossed from cover to cover. I'm glad I read the final book in the trilogy.

[Jess · Rating 2 out of 5]

The first book was the best, the second was okish, and this one I am saying "thank God thats done".

[Mercy Bishop · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wordy

I liked the first book and I read all three but hopefully future novels will be a bit better focused and not so....haphazard?

[Phyllis Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the trilogy!

Loved the trilogy fast paced Finn is my girl who would play her in the movie? S Harrison bring on some more!

[Kati-Lee N. Finch · Rating 3 out of 5]

Meh

Not great. Finished the trilogy though. The ending was anticlimactic. Ten more words are required. Finished at the beach. So yeah