Reflex

This author is very talented. And this particular story line is very interesting. The story itself is so good that I want to hear it over and over in spite of how much I hate profanity and sexual content in books. It sends that the author sees no problem with using horrible language to tell a story. As for the sexual content, it limits his audience or corrupts young minds. It’s irresponsible.In this story, David is captured/kidnapped and Millie hunts for him to save him.

Well maybe you wouldn’t want that power if some sinister entity tried to make you do their bidding. The power to go anywhere on earth instantly can be held in check by those diabolical enough to try and seize that power for themselves. Yet the David fights to the very end. How do you fight the kind of overwhelming faceless evil? With help of course.Once again the impossible seems possible. The writing isn’t over complicated yet clearly makes you examine what power can drive people to do. The unflinching exposure of what people with power will do if they think they can get away with it. At times the bone chilling barbaric nature of humanity seems bleak. Yet the love one person has for another can make the darkness fade.

It is a rare sequel that actually improves on the original. The two biggest problems with Jumper were the relatively minimal development of Millie's character and the sometimes awkward dialogue. Both issues have been addressed in Reflex.While the first novel focused on David, Reflex shines the spotlight on Millie giving her a huge chunk of the book. David and Millie have made a life together - David is an occasional agent for the American government while Millie is a practicing therapist. A powerful and wealthy individual decides to co-op David for his own ends and after he is kidnapped, Millie must apply her considerable intellect to finding and rescuing her husband. This could have been a fairly basic story with David kept out of action until Millie came to the rescue. Instead, Gould gives us a tight story of a caged man who will not be defeated and his wife who will stop at nothing to set him free.The same attention to detail with regard to the capabilities and limitations of a teleporter that Gould showed in the first novel is brought even more sharply into focus in the sequel. The lengths that David's captors are willing to go to keep him on a leash are truly frightening and presented in an unflinchingly brutal manner. At the same time, Millie takes her first faltering steps into the life of a Jumper and shows real ingenuity in dealing with an opponent that knows all too well how to deal with someone who can teleport.Jumper was a novel that started off as an escapist fantasy, turned into a love story, and eventually into a James Bond novel. With Superpowers. Reflex is much more focused and maintains the same feel throughout the story.

Four stars because "reflex" starts out almost exactly where the first left off, forcing me to re-read the Jumper novel I read ten years ago one more time (not that it isn't a great novel)! But after re-reading "Jumper" and seeing reflex's first chapter in a new light, it's quite interesting to see how the author tied these two books together in both phrasing and ideals. I didn't think an author could pull off a sequel so well by taking it in such a drastically different direction (from a completely free soul to a rat-in-a-cage).This isn't a retread sequel. This is a character's continued psychological journey in one of the most impossible to escape situations anyone could ever be in. The first novel "Jumper" was all about playing games and adventure. This second novel "reflex" is about how playing games can sometimes get a little more serious than we bargain for. I think you'll enjoy it if you enjoy escapism, adventure, and a little bit of shrewdness.And if you didn't enjoy it, well, you don't enjoy much, do you?

This was a hard read for me. Not because it's bad or anything, it's just that this book has a really dark premise.Even though the first book was dark as well since it addressed terrorism, I found that this book was far more depressing and sad.Of course, I still liked the book and I think that any science fiction fan should read it, but keep in your mind that this book is not for the faint of heart.

So amazing. I never could have seen this story coming after the ending of Jumper. David is all grown up. He's married and he has a pretty sweet job with the government. all of that changes when he is kidnapped by an unknown enemy. Why do they want him, how do they plan to keep him, and most importantly what will it take to control him?Meanwhile his wife is left alone, worried, scared and trapped in their cliff side home. She can't jump like her amazing husband. But David's talent might be less of an ability and more of a -- reflex.Action packed, and emotionally engaging, Reflex is sure to please anyone who enjoyed Davy's coming of age story in Jumper.

It was fun and interesting to see the continuation of the Jumper story with a more mature protagonist. A good read.

Continuation of the first book. I really appreciated as much as I did with the first one, this time we have more of Millie in the sequel. And Millie is a whole mood, she made me laugh so much! Not only that, she's a strong and independent woman! If it wasn't her, well spoilers, things would be really different. Can't wait to the next boom, Impulse. 10/10

This was a tremendous, if at times disturbing, thriller. When I had first heard the concept, I didn't think it would be believable, trapping a teleporter but it really worked.

冒険大活劇ＳＦ：Ｊｕｍｐｅｒの主役でデビューしたＤａｖｙが、本編でテレポーテーション能力を使った諜報活動をするＮＳＡのＡＧＥＮＴとして帰ってきました。前作ではテレポーテーションを使ったヒーローぶりを発揮していましたが、今回は秘密組織に囚われの身となり、代わりに奥さんのＭｉｌｌｉｅがＤａｖｙの捜索に活躍するというのが今回のお話です。本編をＪｕｍｐｅｒの続編としたかったのか、第３作目のイントロとしようとしているのかはっきりと作者の意図が読めませんでした。 しかしながら、Ｍｉｌｌｉｅの活躍ぶりがＣａｔｗｏｍａｎを彷彿させるところがあり、冒険ＳＦというよりはスーパーヒーロー物として読むとそれなりに楽しめました。次作に大活劇ヒーロー＆エスパーものを期待します。

Nice story telling and thrilling procession of events. There are plot holes (I.e. Millie) that seem a convenient way to get the story going but are left unanswered. Good read though, good for young adults.