Nick Gautier is a 14 year old student who is often picked on by the more privileged students at his school. He is from a broken home with a father in jail for murder and a mother who became a stripper to make ends meet. While she loves him, Nick's mom keeps buying him loud Hawaiian shirts from Goodwill to wear to school, which doesn't help his image any. Weird things start to happen in New Orleans and living teenage zombies (as opposed to undead ones) are eating his classmates. Who's controlling them? How do they stop the zombies? Why do they keep coming after Nick? And who is this guy who says he's related to Nick and trying to help him? Is he really helping or is he the cause of the weird events?
"Infinity" poses an interesting dilemma for me. It's a great read, and is written with a 14 year old protagonist so you'd think it was young adult lit, however, the lead character is also in her adult fantasy novels, although he's 10 years older. I enjoyed the story overall, and it was great to see Nick as a young lad and how he met the other characters and became a Squire, but her adult novels are certainly not appropriate for middle school students, given the sexual content in them. This book, however, is appropriate for both middle school and high school students and contains nothing more than a single kiss for romantic involvement.
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