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Jumper
A hilarious, edgy, and thought-provoking novel about a girl who gets the ability to jump into the bodies of others and control them from inside.
High school student Olivia Silver’s life desperately needs some magic. She’s not super smart. Or pretty. She’s not sure what she wants to do with her life or who she wants to be. And it feels like things might never get any better.
When Olivia comes into contact with a strange and beautiful looking rock from outer space she discovers she can now possess and take over the people around her without them even knowing. This changes everything. She enthusiastically hops into tough teachers, cute guys, and mean girls to do things she never thought possible—but what are the consequences of power abused? And what will happen when the creepy pervert from one of her classes finds and takes the power for himself?
A bold and daring twist on Freaky Friday. A fresh and original perspective on what it’s like to be someone else. Lorelai Brizzi’s exciting new novel tells a story you probably haven’t heard before and goes places others are afraid to.
High school student Olivia Silver’s life desperately needs some magic. She’s not super smart. Or pretty. She’s not sure what she wants to do with her life or who she wants to be. And it feels like things might never get any better.
When Olivia comes into contact with a strange and beautiful looking rock from outer space she discovers she can now possess and take over the people around her without them even knowing. This changes everything. She enthusiastically hops into tough teachers, cute guys, and mean girls to do things she never thought possible—but what are the consequences of power abused? And what will happen when the creepy pervert from one of her classes finds and takes the power for himself?
A bold and daring twist on Freaky Friday. A fresh and original perspective on what it’s like to be someone else. Lorelai Brizzi’s exciting new novel tells a story you probably haven’t heard before and goes places others are afraid to.
- GenresYoung AdultContemporary
103 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 6, 2016
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October 18, 2016
Wow...Just wow...And I do not mean that in a good way.
I don't make a habit of reviewing books but I'll make an exception for this one.
First of all, I feel like I need to say that I understand writing a book is incredibly difficult and time consuming. I respect the author for taking the time to write something and I'm going to try to start this review with the good before I move on to the bad.
The good:
Despite how common the body swapping mechanic is, this book was really original. I can honestly say that I've never read anything like it.
I want to add more good things but I honestly can't even think of anything else. I'm sorry. I tried.
The bad:
The pacing was terrible. I spent the first half of the book waiting for something to actually happen. That's not an exaggeration, she only finds the rock after the halfway mark of the book. At one point, around a third of the way through, I thought something interesting was happening, bizarre but interesting, only it was just a dream that had nothing to do with the plot. I have very little idea as to why the dream was even included. And when we finally get to the action, it's over in a flash. We don't actually see a lot of Olivia (she was so forgettable it took me a moment to even remember her name) using the rock. It's mostly just her describing things she's done with it. And the ending was just....arrrghhhh! I'll get to that later.
Next the writing itself was basically just a stream of consciousness. No physical descriptions of anything. And it wasn't even interesting consciousness. The main character herself describes her thoughts as dull and repetitive at one point. That sums up the entire first half of this book pretty well. It was just her opinion on society, the world, and everything around her. And while I do like books where characters give observations about the world, I don't want to read a book that is entirely observations. It just comes off as pretentious and, quite frankly, it was depressing. Not the good kind of depressing when you feel for the character. Just depressing, depressing. I don't understand how anyone could possibly think this book was funny, as it says on the cover.
The characters were forgettable. Probably because they weren't explored. They started off as stereotypes and they ended exactly the same. Which I understood in this case was probably a commentary on how people are sometimes just who they appear to be, and bullies aren't always just misunderstood people who've had a hard life like in books and movies. But what it really feels like is that the author doesn't know how to portray character in an engaging or realistic way. Everyone in this book just started off with a name and I found out nothing more about them, except what Olivia knew about them initially, which wasn't much.
There are so many more things about this book I could comment on, but I don't have the time to get into it all so I'm just going to skip right to the ending. This part will contain **SPOILERS AHEAD** (BUT not really because it's in the book summary). Basically the ending is the same as how the book summary ends. The creepy pervert gets his hands on the rock and uses it for evil and that is that. It doesn't really explain how he got his hands on it either. He just got it out of her friends locker for some reason. No explanation of how he got through the lock or why he was in there in the first place since he had no knowledge of the rock. He just suddenly had it and the book ended. So essentially, if you've read the summary, there's really no need to read the dull, extended version.
To sum up, I did not like this book. It didn't make sense, it wasn't interesting, and, unlike other books I haven't liked, it wasn't even well written. I feel bad that my review is so negative but this was my honest opinion so there it is.
I don't make a habit of reviewing books but I'll make an exception for this one.
First of all, I feel like I need to say that I understand writing a book is incredibly difficult and time consuming. I respect the author for taking the time to write something and I'm going to try to start this review with the good before I move on to the bad.
The good:
Despite how common the body swapping mechanic is, this book was really original. I can honestly say that I've never read anything like it.
I want to add more good things but I honestly can't even think of anything else. I'm sorry. I tried.
The bad:
The pacing was terrible. I spent the first half of the book waiting for something to actually happen. That's not an exaggeration, she only finds the rock after the halfway mark of the book. At one point, around a third of the way through, I thought something interesting was happening, bizarre but interesting, only it was just a dream that had nothing to do with the plot. I have very little idea as to why the dream was even included. And when we finally get to the action, it's over in a flash. We don't actually see a lot of Olivia (she was so forgettable it took me a moment to even remember her name) using the rock. It's mostly just her describing things she's done with it. And the ending was just....arrrghhhh! I'll get to that later.
Next the writing itself was basically just a stream of consciousness. No physical descriptions of anything. And it wasn't even interesting consciousness. The main character herself describes her thoughts as dull and repetitive at one point. That sums up the entire first half of this book pretty well. It was just her opinion on society, the world, and everything around her. And while I do like books where characters give observations about the world, I don't want to read a book that is entirely observations. It just comes off as pretentious and, quite frankly, it was depressing. Not the good kind of depressing when you feel for the character. Just depressing, depressing. I don't understand how anyone could possibly think this book was funny, as it says on the cover.
The characters were forgettable. Probably because they weren't explored. They started off as stereotypes and they ended exactly the same. Which I understood in this case was probably a commentary on how people are sometimes just who they appear to be, and bullies aren't always just misunderstood people who've had a hard life like in books and movies. But what it really feels like is that the author doesn't know how to portray character in an engaging or realistic way. Everyone in this book just started off with a name and I found out nothing more about them, except what Olivia knew about them initially, which wasn't much.
There are so many more things about this book I could comment on, but I don't have the time to get into it all so I'm just going to skip right to the ending. This part will contain **SPOILERS AHEAD** (BUT not really because it's in the book summary). Basically the ending is the same as how the book summary ends. The creepy pervert gets his hands on the rock and uses it for evil and that is that. It doesn't really explain how he got his hands on it either. He just got it out of her friends locker for some reason. No explanation of how he got through the lock or why he was in there in the first place since he had no knowledge of the rock. He just suddenly had it and the book ended. So essentially, if you've read the summary, there's really no need to read the dull, extended version.
To sum up, I did not like this book. It didn't make sense, it wasn't interesting, and, unlike other books I haven't liked, it wasn't even well written. I feel bad that my review is so negative but this was my honest opinion so there it is.
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