Steven Gould had a hit with his book Jumper(my review), which was not only popular, but also spawned a movie. Gould has expanded on the book with three sequels. Two sequels to the book and one sequel to the movie (which doesn’t have the exact same plot as the book). Since I enjoyed the first book, I decided I should check out the first book sequel, Reflex. It was decent, but not quite as enjoyable as the original novel. Let’s check out what happens.

In the first novel, we met our jumper, Davy. Davy uses his power to escape the life he hates and meets up with Millie and gets in with the NSA/CIA as a job. He and Millie have been married for ten years. She’s thinking about kids and he’s still scared. Not only because of his worrying about people coming after his family, but because of the dysfunctional family he comes from. Then Davy’s gone. Someone finds out where he was meeting his handler and drugs him before Davy can jump. Now Millie’s scared and Davy has someone trying to train him for unknown reasons. Millie meets with Davy’s bosses and they try to run her out as bait to see if someone will try to grab her (and hopefully lead them to Davy). Millie doesn’t have a better plan, so she goes along until she finds out that she too can jump. The book then alternates between Millie trying to use her new found power to find and rescue Davy and Davy trying to escape.

This book has more of a thriller feel and the powers felt almost as a side story. We’d already seen Davy learning to use his power, so watching Millie do the same thing was much less interesting (and it doesn’t bode well for the third book that they have a child who learns to use the same power). The bad part of the kidnapping storyline that we don’t really get to know Millie, even though she’s the main character in half the book. Her every thought is about rescuing Davy, so the book ends up Davy focused,