Of course, there are bullies, and love interests, etc. However, she’s a teenager now and she’s dying for friends, so she finally convinces her parents she can go to school without screwing things up. Cent doesn’t even have a birth certificate, they’re so afraid of word getting out about them.Īlso understandable. She’s repressed to say the least, especially owing to the family’s understandable obsession with secrecy. Impulse takes up a number of years after Reflex, enough time for the jumping couple to have a daughter, Cent, who is now a teenager. (Okay, these are misleading, cause it’s not teen angst in the hilarious or awesome way.) Also, let’s add a cool mystery and some spies.īook 3, Impulse: Let’s take all the great things we’ve built up so far … and add teenage angst! A forced romance! A holier-than-thou attitude for all the characters! The second time will change all their lives forever.īook 1, Jumper: Let’s take a simple concept and weave a cool story that’s brilliant in its simplicity.īook 2, Reflex: Let’s take that simple concept and add to it by restraining it, but while also pushing boundaries. When the snow and ice thundered down on her, she suddenly found herself in her own bedroom. Until the day she went snowboarding without permission and triggered an avalanche. Her life has never really been in danger. Cent has teleported more than anyone on Earth, except for her parents, Davy and Millie, but she’s never been able to do it herself. She’s been all over, met people rich and very poor, has worked on her mother’s global relief projects. Her mother has not neglected her daughter’s education. There can be no images of them, or of Cent, anywhere.Cent has seen the world, but only from the safety of her parents’ arms. She’s connected movies, TV, Internet, but Cent’s parents are absolutely firm: no one can know where they live. Her parents are also hiding Cent from the government agencies who want to use them for their own purposes. She lives in isolation with her parents, hiding from the people who took her father captive and tortured him to gain control over his ability to teleport. That was the first time.Cent has a secret. Until the day when she went snowboarding without permission and triggered an avalanche. She's teleported more than anyone on Earth, except for her mother and father, but she's never been able to do it herself. Cent has seen the world, but only from the safety of her parents' arms.
She lives in isolation, with her parents, hiding from the people who took her father captive and tortured him to gain control over his ability to teleport, and from the government agencies who want to use his talent. First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, 368 pp. First edition, Hardcover, New in dust jacket, New York: Tor:, 2013.
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