There are also intriguing relationship dynamics between Adam and Sarah concerning young Mia's apparent ability to extend her life indefinitely by taking other people's numbers.

Mysterious psychic gifts, underground government bunkers, a truly creepy bad guy, and babies (born and unborn) in peril. In any event, Infinity is a real page-turner. (And it's not the I mind reading the viewpoint of someone from a poor, urban background - the particular voice just didn't scan right for me in The Chaos.) Certainly it would be reasonable that two years spent with the much more posh Sarah would have smoothed Adam's rough edges a bit. I'm not sure if this is because Ward toned down the slang/poor grammar, or whether the fast pace of Infinity distracted me from noticing. Infinity worked much better for me in that regard. I found The Chaos compelling, plotwise, but I found Adam's voice (he's meant to be poor and not very well educated) occasionally jarring. Perilous times follow, for Adam, Sarah, Mia, and Sarah and Adam's unborn child.īoth The Chaos and Infinity alternate chapters between Adam and Sarah's viewpoints. Saul isn't above using Sarah and Mia to get Adam to do what he wants. This fear proves correct, as a man named Saul arrives asking Adam to come with him, to use his gift to help the re-emerging government. They move frequently, in part because Adam fears that the remnants of the government might still be looking for him. Adam, Sarah, and Sarah's daughter Mia are scraping by, camping in the woods with Sarah's two younger brothers. Infinity picks up two years later, after a massive earthquake has devastated England, leading to a time of chaos and deprivation. In The Chaos, Adam's life intersects with that of Sarah, a girl with gifts (and problems) of her own. The second and third books of the trilogy, The Chaos and Infinity, feature Jem's son, Adam, who inherited her gift.

Numbers was a book that I thought about long after finishing it. I found the premise, and the adventure that resulted when people learned about her gift, fascinating. Whenever Jem looked someone in the eye, she saw that person's 'number', the day that he or she was going to die. The first book, Numbers ( reviewed here), featured Jem, a teenage girl living in present-day London, cursed with a psychic gift. Infinity is the conclusion to Rachel Ward's Numbers trilogy, and I think that it's the best of the series.

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