This is one of my favorite books! Now, I read this at the end of the last school year, but recently when I found out it was going to be a motion picture in January (i think), I just had to read it again!
What makes a good book great, in my opinion, is that it makes you not only change your emotions inside, but that there is so much that you have to express it! This how this book made me feel; I was jumping out of my seat, so excited, smile on my face, telling people how great this book is. Now, that might've just been me...
This book is about a boy Davy who finds out at a young age that he has the gift of teleportation. However, he discovers this when he was in a state of helplessness. His father, drunk and agressive, was about once again beat his son (just because he didn't mow the lawn..), but all of a sudden he found himself in his local library. Scared, he didn't really understand what happened, but all he knew was that he wasn't going to go back home. He ran away, hoping to go to New York, a place his family once enjoyed visiting together. Unfortunately, one of the truckers he hitched a ride with, hundreds of miles away from home, stopped at a truck stop with other truckers and was almost raped until he again found himself in his hometown library.
The library acts as his haven, Davy's safe hideout. Davy was an avid reader; it kept him not focused on his present problems. I found this quite interesting because as he was getting lost in his world of books, I was getting lost in this one.
Davy finally finds his way to New York and has trouble getting work because of many reasons including he was underage at the time and he had no type of identification or social security number. So he comes up with a brilliant plan to rob a bank! He can only transport places he's been, so he had to go to a bank and look inside a vault. I don't want to give away much, but I can say he was successful!
There are so many funny parts in the book, where Davy finds ways to mess with people by teleporting a person to the other side of the globe and events similar to that one.
Now, I don't think I really justified how good this book is, and I've never really been good at that, but I do think that most of you would enjoy this well-written book!
I'm also in the middle of the sequel, Reflex, which is also very entertaining.
-stephanie
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This book seems really interesting. I like how he teleports in moments of helplessness; it's how all of us would probably feel. Actually, i like the idea of teleporting in general. I've always wondered what it must be like to go anywhere instantly whenever you wanted. Bring it in so i could read it, please!
I read this book a few years ago. I don't remember much about, but I do remember also not being able to put it down since it was fascinating and had great momentum. I never thought about how having the ability to teleport would allow that person so much power, and it was interesting to see what someone could do with the ability. I didn't know there was a sequel or that there is going to be a movie. Now I am very excited to read Reflex. -Thanks
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