SuitabookInfinite risk
Ann Aguirre
- Reading
- Check whether the reader knows the first two books, then offer a brief pause after early chapters to clarify the time-travel situation and who can be trusted. Afterwards, discuss choices rather than predicting the ending.
- Themes
- Changing the past: Edie has leaped back to put things right and save someone she loves, but is alone in the wrong timestream. The premise invites attention to whether fixing one life can create obligations or costs elsewhere; the story’s final judgement is not established.
- Power and danger: Edie must face dangerous Immortals determined to win an apparently final contest. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Identity and belonging: The opening shows Edie entering a public school while eighteen and pretending to be sixteen in a changed timeline. The school situation creates questions about identity, trust and belonging, but the excerpt does not establish whether the deception is rewarded, criticised or resolved.
- Worth knowing
- The book includes references to bullying and despair in the wider trilogy material, dangerous supernatural opponents, a mortal contest and a romantic relationship.