Impulse

Love the way the story backs up the crazy with good facts and a scientific application. Read the story after watching the very first jumper movie. Loved it. Hate how they changed a bit of it. The daughter of the original jumper in the book is a much more competent and strong female character than the hack job from YouTube, the overcomes a great deal of danger, teaches dad a few new tricks, beats the bad guy's, and still had some semblance of normal people time. Loved it.

I didn't realize that this book was a teen novel until after I'd purchased it. Being a fan of the first two, all I needed to know was that the story was a continuation of the original Jumper and not the movie-book version.It's my opinion that a good story and strong characters transcend age. Currently, I am reading the Harry Potter novels to my two eldest children (9 and 4) and each of us seems to enjoy them on various levels. This book really shouldn't have hit the shelves. It reads like a first draft with meandering plot and multiple subplots that are both meaningless and boring. In several chapters I found myself skimming pages hoping to find a morsel, a crumb of meaning; but they just weren't there to be found.Half of the book reads like someone who just found religion tried to squeeze in proselytizing in lieu of coherent and cogent story telling. In this instance, the religion is "Green" Left-Wing Secularism. Mr. Gould's left-leaning voice could be heard rather clearly in the previous books too. However unlike those installments, it's inclusion here is forced, unnatural, and unrelated to the plot in any way; like the author had read some articles about plug-in hybrids, NGO, and The Heritage Foundation and was desperate to include the info in his, otherwise, unrelated story.My sister-in-law has a friend who manages to fit her trips to Europe into every conversation. It's just as eye-rolling-inducing. Here's an example: the protagonist's father buys a fully plug-in car. This car makes only one appearance, just long enough for the protagonist's friends to bash the local economic foundation, which is the oil industry, and those in the community who immediately profit from its extraction and processing. It felt like foreshadowing, but nothing was ever mentioned again. It was only in there so that the author could preach about the virtues of The Chevy Volt (not mentioned by name) and express his personal feelings about the oil industry and the one percent.The main character is the most well adjusted "undersocialized" 16 year old shut-in in History. She knows nothing of peer relations other than what she's "seen in movies and read in books," yet she deftly maneuvers through the (in this case) not-so challenging and complex world of high school. Her parents are understandably concerned about her safety and social integration. However, when her 16 year old daughter with virtually no experience interacting with anybody her own age and absolutely no romantic experience goes on her first "real" date, her mother (a therapist for God's sake) reminds her where the condoms are located. Remember, this girl hasn't eleven kissed a boy as far as her mother knows. The referenced conversation about teen sex went something like this, "you're sixteen make your own decisions and don't make bad ones." Fine, if that's the character, that's the character, but it is inconsistent with an earlier scientific conversation where the mother, remember a therapist, warns that children her age believe that they are immortal and cannot be harmed.Very little of note happens in this book until 78% in (Kindle version). When it does, it's over in a page. In fact, so little happens that Gould summarizes the entire plot in a chapter of needless exposition. The main character actually tells her mother (and the reader) everything that we just read. I don't know if he just needed to fill some pages, or what, but the entire chapter could have been condensed to "so I told her everything that had happened and, this time I didn't leave out anything about Caffeine (one of the quasi-antagonists)."The editor and publisher should be ashamed of themselves. There is a seed of a story in here and it was their job to encourage Mr. Gould to fully develop it. Instead, it seems that they saw a chance to capitalize on an existing fan base and make some quick cash. Strip all the fluff away and you've got three or four chapters of what could have been an exciting "jumping" off point for a new spinoff series.Truly, I struggled as to whether I should give this book two stars instead of three. However, for all it's faults, I didn't hate the book. If anything, it was a Twinkie that wetted my apatite for homemade German Chocolate Cake. I think that I'll re-read the first two books now.

If you don't count "Jumper Griffin's Story" from 2008 it's been 8 years since "Reflex" in 2005- I'd been wondering if there would ever be more so now Mr. Gould has come out with "Impulse".Apparently it's been 17 years, story time, since we last heard from Davy & Millie- they now have a 16 year old daughter , "Cent" (short for Millicent as is Millie), who's had only limited contact with the outside world aside from day trips mostly involving humanitarian aid to regions otherwise without help. Cent goes snowboarding alone one day and in a mishap discovers that she too has the ability to "jump".Not much later Cent is going to school to experience normal teenage life (though they never really spend the night the "Ross" family has bought a home in town and set up a cover story), soon making friends and enemies. Throughout the book there are scattered bits about past characters, Millie's mother (Cent has met her three times) and sister (one time), FBI agent Becca Martingale and Davy's old enemy Hyacinth Pope. It eventually develops that Pope's employers have put the word out to report things like jumper activity- the drug dealing gang Cent protects her friends from report in on her efforts, (due to Davy & Millie's efforts no one knew where the were or that Cent existed until this point). Cent and two of her friends are taken captive by Pope but rescued by her parents.Overall I liked Impulse, it's a good book to read.Impulse is at it's best when told from Cent's point of view although some of the Davy/Millie segments are as good as they were in Jumper and Reflex. I'd wondered why some of the story details were even included as they didn't seem to really apply to "Impulse". I looked at the author's website, digitalnoir, and learned that there is to be a sequel, Exo, at some point (it wasn't made clear when, at this point just a mention of an opportunity to be a character in the book) so maybe the odd bits will make sense some day.Steven Gould has a "Jumper" related short story (from 2008) on his website if you want more Davy/Millie right now.

Don't miss out. You won't regret giving this book (and the author) a try.3rd book in a four-book series.

Ohne nennenswerte Spoiler:Jumper Impulse erzählt die Geschichte von Cent, einem jungen Mädchen, welches ihre Fähigkeit zu "jumpen" entdeckt. Dabei treffen wir einige bekannte Charaktere aus den ersten beiden Büchern wieder. Ich selbst habe nur Teil 1, aber nicht die Fortsetzung gelesen. Gestört hat dies nicht, um die Handlung von Impulse zu verstehen. Jedoch weiß ich jetzt genug über die Handlung von Teil 2, sodass sich dessen Lektüre nicht mehr unbedingt lohnt.Mein persönlicher Eindruck war, dass Teil 1 besser war. In Teil 1 ging es vor allem um die Entdeckung der Jump-Fähigkeit. Die persönliche Geschichte von Cent in Impulse ist ausführlicher dargestellt. Natürlich geht es auch hier wieder darum, neue Facetten von Jumps zu entdecken. Insgesamt stehen jedoch hier die Probleme eines heranwachsenden Mädchens im Vordergrund.Auf Englisch ist der Roman gut zu verstehen. Ich hatte allerdings den Eindruck, dass im Vergleich zu Teil 1 ein paar ungewöhnlichere Wörter benutzt werden. Das beeinträchtigt das Verständnis allerdings nicht.Fazit: wer sich für die Welt von Jumper interessiert kann dieses Buch guten Gewissens lesen. Man sollte sich aber bewusst sein, dass ein 16-jähriges Mädchen andere Probleme hat als der 18-jährige Davy aus Teil 1.

This book takes the original Jumper story into the next generation with his daughter gaining and exploring her use of the "Jumper" abilities. The setting this time is in high school when the daughter decides to become part of normal high school lifeThis is the 3rd, in the Jumper series.1st : Jumper2nd: Reflex3rd: Impulse4th: ExoThis series is definitely on my recommended reading list.

I'm French, but I'm a big fan of Jumper. When I realized that they are a third book, but only in english, I have prefer to bought the book in English. And it is excellent !!

Interessante libro che riesca a mantenere l'attenzione sulla storia ma facendo anche riflettere sulle scelte dei personaggi.Molto coinvolgente, richiede una buona dimestichezza con l'inglese per poterlo leggere