Genre: Sci-Fi, Young Adult
Reviewer: Scott
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About The Book
Who wants a piece of Orville Hatch? Who doesn’t?
When Orville isn’t screaming his head off or claiming that the mouse in science class is making fun of him, he tries to be like every other sixteen-year-old boy. Homework. Marching band. Pine over a girl who doesn’t know he exists. But after a scary event at school, his life goes from surreal to downright terrifying.
Perfect for both teens and adults who love the unabashed weirdness of Kurt Vonnegut, Neil Gaiman, and Douglas Adams, Two Infinite Things is an adventurous game-changer you can’t afford to miss.
Join Orville’s bizarre and shocking adventure in Book One of the Infinite Trilogy. Click “Add to Cart” today!
The Review
A boy with super powers, a smart-ass mouse, and a secret… these are the primary elements of R.M. Zubairi’s Two Infinite Things, book one of “The Infinite Things” trilogy.
Orville Hatch wants to be a regular high school kid, but instead he finds himself in screaming matches with a mouse in his physics class, and in the middle of a number of strange events that have made him the laughingstock of his school.
Then one day men with guns invade his school, and he reacts in a way that changes everything. But where did his strange powers come from?
Orville is an unreliable narrator. As a character, he walks around in a fog most of the time, missing cues and totally oblivious to much of what’s going on in the world around him. This was effective in the story, although there were a few times I just wanted to shake him and say “wake up!” But bit by bit, he discovers more about his own abilities and the fog clears, and secrets unfold along with the action as the book builds toward its surprising climax.
This was a fascinating YA superhero origin story with an unexpected protagonist, for whom literally nothing comes easy. Recommended.
The Reviewer
Scott is the founder of Queer Sci Fi, and a fantasy and sci fi writer in his own right, with more than 30 published short stories, novellas and novels to his credit, including two trilogies.
