I’ve really enjoyed Steven Gould’s Jumper books, about a teen who discovers he can teleport (let’s not talk about the movie, m’k?). In the first two books, Gould does a really good job of balancing a very technical exploration of the rules of this ability with an actual emotional story of a young man making his way in the world as an outsider. By the end of the second book, Davy and his then-wife Millie are perhaps too-powerful with their abilities, so with Impulse Gould takes an understandable logistical step and transfers his attention to their daughter, Cent, who has grown up in isolation with two justifiably paranoid parents (the NSA AND a shadowy conspiracy have been after them for years) but is unable to teleport herself. Until, spoiler-except-it’s-just-a-few-chapters-in, she can.

FuzzyCo grade: A