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Reflex (Jumper)

Steven Gould

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Total reviews: 47 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

reflex brillent 5 out of 5 stars.
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very good follow up its a pity the film was not as good as the book. but still a good film looking forward to the next one

Excellent sequel 5 out of 5 stars.
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AWESOME thriller for a great master piece like Jumper.
Keeps you to the edge of the chair wanting for more and more, you can't get yourself away from this book.

Totally boring. Just get on with the action!!!! 1 out of 5 stars.
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Way too slow!!! Nothing exciting here at all. It took forever to get going if it actually got going at all.
If this was a movie, it would be over in 5 to 10 minutes. Rubbish story, rubbish writing and rubbish overall concept.
Waste of time as this sequal goes nowhere.
Very dissappointing.

Editorial Review:

Davy has always been alone. He believes that he's the only person in the world who can teleport. But what if he isn't?A mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes, whether Davy agrees to it or not. And so they set about brainwashing him and conditioning him. They have even found a way to keep a teleport captive.But there's one thing that they don't know. No one knows it, not even Davy. And it might save his life....

(20050131)

Jumper: A Novel (Jumper)

Steven Gould

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Total reviews: 130 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Jumper 3 out of 5 stars.
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If you expect the book to be like the movie you are wrong. The book is still good but dont expect the movie when you are reading it.

One of the best. 5 out of 5 stars.
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I really enjoyed reading this book. I've read it over and over. The protagonist(Davy Rice) seems so real! I even cried when he has reunited with his mother.
Gould's really talented! Buy this book. Give it a try!

The original Jumper story 4 out of 5 stars.
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Those of you who saw the movie and are now looking for the book need to know that while all the stories (film or print) with Jumper in the tittle, have characters with similar names and some similarity, each of them is different so you can read or see them all without knowing what will happen. This book is the original story that inspired the movie, and the sequel to it is REFLEX. Those two books focus on the story of one jumper and his significant other. There are no paladins in either of these books, but there are bad guys and threats to our hero. This is a topnotch set, and since Amazon is offering a deal to buy both books at once, I suggest you do it! Then, you can get the book written to be include paladins in the print world. It is a different person from either the movie or the original books, and you can enjoy what you liked about the series yet again.

Editorial Review:

What if you could go anywhere in the world, in the blink of an eye? Where would you go? What would you do?

Davy can teleport.

To survive, Davy must learn to use and control his power in a world that is more violent and complex than he ever imagined. But mere survival is not enough for him. Davy wants to find others like himself, others who can Jump.

And that's a dangerous game.

Jumper is a 20th Century Fox/New Regency production, starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, and Jamie Bell.

Jumper: Griffin's Story (Jumper)

Steven Gould

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Total reviews: 31 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

why are there no reviews for the e-book version 1 out of 5 stars.
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why are there no reviews of the ebook version? they all are from the hard back.

Sadly...A Dissapointment 2 out of 5 stars.
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I was very disappointed in this, the third installment, of the Jumper series. I read the first two on the recommendation of my teenage son who found the first in the young adult section of the library. He is not a reader, so when he started hounding me to read it I caved. A quick search lead to the sequel in the adult section and my son read that one as well, passing it on to me when he was done. We both got excited about Griffin's Story and the fact that the book premise was going to be turned into a movie. We were disappointed with both. I know the author gave a disclaimer at the start of the book but I was still hoping to hear the author's "voice" come through the story. The whole thing fell flat for me and made me sad that I didn't wait for the library to pick it up (we pre-purchased it on this site). I recommend reading the first two books in the series (worth the money to purchase) and check out the local library for the third.

Editorial Review:

What if you could jump? Go anywhere in the world in the blink of an eye? What would you do? Where would you go?







What if you were only five years old?







Griffin O’Connor jumped for the first time in front of a busload of tourists in Oxford; there was no hope of keeping his ability a secret. He was hunted from that day, on the run with his family, and then without them. His only hope is to stay alive and free until he can become the hunter himself.







ANYWHERE IS POSSIBLE







Jumper is a major motion picture from 20th Century Fox/New Regency Productions, starring Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane, and Jamie Bell.

Wildside

Steven Gould

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Worth every penny. A definite buy! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book will make you think "what would I do if I had that portal?" Story itself is nice and tight, characters are well constructed and imaginative author strikes gold with this book.

This would be a great read for your vacation. Worth its money on hardback or paperback. Pick it up!

Adventure & Coming of Age 5 out of 5 stars.
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Yet another book by Gould that delivers! He's one of my favorite authors. It's exhilerating to join the main character as he discovers a link to another world, and really comes into his own as an independent young adult and entrepreneur. All four main characters bring a very realistic human element to the story, and at times I found myself even more interested in their interactions than the "business" at hand. But perhaps that's just me... "Wildside" is a great adventure story, sure to make you wish YOU had your own link to an alternate universe! Since you don't (am I wrong?), the book is the next best thing.

Editorial Review:

A suspenseful example of an emerging subgenre, the homage to Heinlein's young adult fiction, this novel will satisfy readers of all ages. Eighteen-year-old Charlie Newell has inherited a ranch from Uncle Max, who is missing, presumed dead. Hidden behind a pile of old hay in the barn is a tunnel that doesn't lead to the airstrip but to a pristine, uninhabited parallel Texas stocked with extinct megafauna. Charlie recruits four friends to help him exploit the wild side of his ranch, but the project becomes wilder than they expect, and they find themselves in danger not from saber-toothed tigers, but from their fellow Americans.

Blind Waves

Steven Gould

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Loved it 5 out of 5 stars.
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Stephen Gould has written some of my favorite books, including Jumper and Wildside. Both of these are considered `young adult' fiction, of for no other reason but that their protagonists are all `young adults', and the themes revolve around growing up kinds of things.

Blind Waves deals with adults, adult themes-though nothing particularly dark or explicit-and tackles some global near-future issues, in particular the consequences of global warming and rising sea levels. It doesn't spend much time analyzing or agonizing over the things that led to this state of affairs, but just sets the story within that context and spins out a cool yarn about intrigue and dastardly machinations among those policing illegal immigration in the flooded southern US. Plus there's a love story between the two main protagonists; which is kind of at the heart of it all and provides the thread that holds it all together.

I just like Blind Waves. It's the kind of book you re-read when you're not in the mood to tackle anything new and potentially problematic, and you just want something light, and yet not shallow and definitely entertaining.

Till Noever, owlglass.com, Author: KEAEN, SELADIENNA, CONTINUITY SLIP.

Editorial Review:

Steven Gould's Blind Waves is one of those books that makes you hold your breath a lot. This SF thriller takes place along what's left of the Texas Gulf coast after melting Antarctic ice has drowned much of the world. In New Galveston, a floating city, our plucky heroine Patricia Beeman uses her submarine to do salvage and inspection work. But when she stumbles upon a sunken ship full of freshly dead immigrants, she gets tangled in a dangerous web of politics, hatred, and corruption. Enter Commander Thomas Becket of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (now an armed force bigger than the Navy). Patricia and Thomas band together to beat the bad guys, and the adventure that follows delivers on all counts. Plenty of tense underwater action and zingy plot twists will keep thriller fans turning pages, while snappy dialogue, a delightfully budding romance, and homages to Shakespeare and Dorothy L. Sayers add literary flair. --Therese Littleton

Helm

Steven Gould

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Total reviews: 23 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A really good Sci-fi book. 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book has lots of excellent world-building, and a main character--or perhaps I should say TWO main characters--you can really get behind.

The Aikido details are great, and the growth of the main character is believable and interesting.

Editorial Review:

In Helm, Gould spins the tale of Leland de Laal, the young son of a shrewd but minor nobleman on a world far from Earth. Leland, disobeying his father's edict, dons a helm of ancient power, an artifact brought from Earth centuries ago. Gradually, he gains access to knowledge implanted in his mind by the helm, only to find that he is no longer alone in his head. He absorbs the martial-arts discipline of aikido, but before he can come to terms with either his new powers or his growing affection for his overlord's daughter, he is submerged in betrayal and war on many fronts. His homeland's worst enemy seeks the helm, ready to use it to subjugate the world. In this, his third novel, Steven Gould has whipped up a smooth fantasy story, seasoned with science-fictional elements, romance, and a lot of high-kicking action. He continues to explore the coming-of-age theme, as he did in his previous two novels, Jumper and Wildside. --Blaise Selby