So, I'm one of those who was drawn to this book by the title! I do love a good "does what it says on the tin!" It also had the chance of being a bit on the bonkers side, another thing I also really love so... I jumped right in and had a bit of a wild ride!
Teagan Frost has a special skill. As the title suggests, she can move things (amazon friendly edit) with her mind. Obviously she has been snaffled up by a government department, and set to work in a team, utilising these special skills. Well, it's either this or the threat of them experimenting on her - all a bit Hobson's choice! On one such outing, things go a bit south and her and her partner are lucky to escape. But the fallout is a bit more than the threat of discovery as a body is found at the scene, killed in a way that only she could achieve. But she didn't do it. Despite claiming her innocence, she struggles to convince the rest of her team and is given only 24 hours to prove it.. And so begins a rather dangerous cat-and-mouse game, fraught with danger as, not fully knowing who to trust, Teagan faces a race, both against time and an unknown enemy, as she battles to stay alive long enough to clear her name.
This book hits the ground (literally) from the very first page and the action doesn't let up pretty much all the way through. There are parts that give a bit of respite and keep the book balanced, but these are few and far between and it's never long before it all kicks off once again! What I did like about the main issue in the book, the moving stuff with the mind bit, is that for the most part, this is just accepted as fact rather than the author going into pages and pages of whys and wherefores. The how is partly explained, but I guess there's more to come from that in future books.
It helped that I took to the MC right from the start. Her kick-ass attitude complemented her vulnerability and, to a certain extent, her naivety, and all combined to make her a personable character. She is also incredibly sarcastic throughout the book - a girl after my own heart there!
Other characters were also well drawn and developed nicely as the book progressed.
Pacing was good - pretty much high octane throughout, with the aforementioned quieter moments which allowed me to reflect and regroup before off we went again.
The storyline was interesting and intriguing throughout and kept my attention nicely for the majority of the book. Yes there were a few contrived moments and leaps that came out of little, but nothing you wouldn't find in any other book of this genre.
All in all, a bonkers romp that I enjoyed and which left me on the whole satisfied. I'm definitely interested in seeing what's next... My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

Sadly to my dismay, this book turned out to be one that really wasn't for me. I persevered to 21% before I called it a day and gave up. It just may be that I wasn't in the right frame of mind for it, many other reviewers have loved it. I would recommend that other readers try it for themselves, it might just be right up their street. So many apologies, the characters were not ones that drew me in and the storylines just didn't work out.

Super snarky and highly entertaining - this was a really fast paced adventure that made me laugh. I really enjoyed the characters and Teagan is probably one of the most irreverent female leads that I've come across. Wise cracking, smart mouthed and pretty messed up, she's also toting some pretty cool super powers. It wasn't perfect, but I really enjoyed it and that's the important thing.

This was a bit confused at times and it made me frustrated trying to read it, when it wasn’t frustrating me it was kinda fun, but unfortunately the effort was lost by then. It sounded so interesting and could have been so great but just felt a bit lost. A shame.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

A vibrant, fast read.

Teagan is psychokinetic – she can move sh*t with her mind – and has been roped into working with a team of outsiders in an off-the-books government team taking out bad guys. However, after a series of murders that appear to have been only able to be have been perpetrated by someone with Teagan’s powers, she and her crew have to track down the culprit, clear Teagan’s name, find out who else has psychokinetic powers and why, and prevent further deaths all while LA is literally burning down around them.

This isn’t a complicated book, but it is a fun one. The plot follows a pretty straightforward thriller formula, but it does it confidently and hits all the right beats so it remains satisfying. There’s a nice hook at the end leaving the door open for a series and some of the emotional elements remain unresolved, but the story still works quite well as a standalone and ties up strongly. This setting is quite evocative, too: hipster food and suburbia and hip hop and highways and cool slang.

I didn’t super love the first person to third person perspective shifts between Teagan’s chapters and Jake’s. It’s not a deal breaker, but it was an odd choice. I found Teagan’s first person perspective, too, tended to allow for infodumping, especially in the opening chapters.

The cast is small but interesting. A little shallow, but for this sort of a book you expect the action and pacing to be taking precedence over reflective, deep character arcs and I think it still managed to give everyone some good moments.

This is a solid first installment in a series. It sets up the world and characters well, it’s enjoyable, action-y, pop culture savvy and progressive in its representation without being pushy about it. I’ll be checking out the follow-up.

An advance copy of this book was kindly provided by Orbit and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

I loved it. The title was perfect and it gave me a smile everytime i see. The story was action packed with a badass female main character. I love Teagen. She is not perfect. She wanted to be normal and full of sass. I loved every character. I laughed a lot. There was never a dull moment. This book was full of surprises. I can't wait to read book 2.

I’m going to start by saying the censorship in all of the summaries, titles and reviews has me chuckling - every time I see it I have a little smile.
Anyway, on to the book.
I really liked Teagan, she felt like a grown-up version of every messed up YA heroine with superpowers (I particularly felt she resonated with Maximum Ride but that’s a comparison I draw often). I actually think this would be a good transitional book for those wanting to move from YA into more adult supernatural fiction but who aren’t sure where to start. This book has more violence and more swearing but other than that it could read as YA pretty easily with just a few age changes. So, if you’re looking to read more adult fiction alongside your YA addiction (like me) then I would recommend this.
What I liked about the set up for this book is that, while it was a little cheesy, it managed to walk the line of ‘no-one can know about her powers’ without it becoming unbelievable or silly. I’ll never forget reading a spy book about a new mother whose partner didn’t know she was an assassin who hid a gun in her bathroom cupboard on the grounds that he never looked there. This book doesn’t do that, in part because it takes place over such a short amount of time - just a couple of days - so there isn’t time to get bogged down in how these people, this crew, is integrated with society, they just get on with the situation at hand.
I haven’t read a good ‘murder mystery turns into an action story’ book in a while and it was nice to step back into the genre. I thought that the mystery was well done, with a good amount of red herrings and backstabbing - again without feeling too cheesy.
I’ll be interested to hear from people who know more about these things, what they felt about the representation of people who are homeless was like. It’s obvious that this author really loves LA - where the book is set - but is also aware of the ‘faults’ of the city. I knew shamefully little about Skid Row and this book prompted me to do some research. There are some other topics onto which this book sheds light - that I can’t go into here because it would be a spoiler - but I did appreciate that the story encouraged you as a reader to go out and learn more about things - that’s always a sign of a good book as far as I’m concerned.
I was left feeling eager to read the sequel - I definitely want to see what happens next for these characters!
My rating: ⅘ stars
I received a free digital advanced review copy of this book from the publisher. All opinions are my own.

This was such a fun read, it follows the main character Teagan, who has Psychokinesis or PK for short, so she can indeed move shit with her mind.

Tegan works for the Government, who send her on secret missions, simply because she is able to do things that other people can’t.

But all in all Tegan is a young girl, she thinks her abilities are cool, but that’s really about it, she wants to be able to drink beer and have a good time, she really isn’t that bothered about working for the Government, but she does know what will happen to her if anyone ever found out what she can do, so she does the bare minimum, much to her teams frustration.

Tegan’s real passion, is food, and not any old food, she really wants to own a restaurant, and her dream is to eat in every swanky place she can to get ideas for this, but this is just a pipe-dream.

The last job that she took on with her team didn’t go according to plan, and now a body has turned up, but he could only have been killed with powers the same as Tegan’s, she is adamant that she didn’t do it, but her team-mates are not so sure, so she is given 24 hours to prove her innocence before she is reported.

A really fun read, I loved Tegan, she was funny and sometimes really really stupid, but i think that made her more likeable.

A crazy ride that drops you right in the centre of it on the first page, you will never get bored with this story, some great characters and a bit of a cliffhanger that makes you think that book 2 will probably be coming your way soon!

What an amazing title for a book. It certainly grabbed my attention, and contained within is a fast paced story involving secret government agents, underground warfare and a funny telekinetic protagonist that doesn’t take herself too seriously. It’s totally and utterly bonkers.

Teagan is a great character, and one I easily found likeable and approachable. She’s just your average woman with super powers, forced to work with the government when all she really wants to do is have a beer and watch tv. She’s sarcastic, witty with a good moral code at heart and completely believable. She’s never made out to be untouchable, like a lot of ‘super heroes’, with a touch of the morally ambiguous at times too. I liked that she wasn’t just a carbon copy of characters with powers that I’ve read about before, and she definitely elevated the novel for me. However, I did find the more romantic elements attached to Teagan to be rather contrived and unnecessary. She’s is a strong enough, and well developed enough, character to not need any romantic elements in the story to make her more interesting. It felt a little cliched, and awkward.

The story is fast paced, and full of action from beginning to end, leaving little time for the reader to get bored or loose interest. It also seems to start off as quite a straightforward one genre type book, but soon becomes much more interesting than that, going off on an entertaining tangent that is full of surprises. It’s utterly silly and fun, and it made me laugh. I will say that I found the two points of view that the story is told from rather at odds with one another at times. The mix of first and third person narrative fell a little flat and jarring and sometimes stilted the flow of the story, which was a shame. A single perspective would have worked much better.

I also found the ending to be a little rushed, and some elements are not described or concluded well. I dislike cliff hangers in books that so clearly rely on sequels to wrap up the storytelling, as I personally feel cheated out of a good ending. I felt that the story could easily have been concluded satisfactorily if the author had wanted it too, but instead opted for the draw of a sequel, which I found disappointing.

That said, this is an imaginative, completely off the wall novel that sits on the right side of hilarious and weird. Read for the light hearted fun and sassy protagonist.

I wasn't expecting to love this book as much as I did, but I'm so glad I did!

I wasn't sure what to expect at first, but everything about this story was so interesting. I mean, a group of people working for the government,like doesn't sound that exciting, but throw in some super powers, betrayal, romance and much more, and it becomes a story worth reading. I truly loved Teagan as a character and I cannot wait for more.

The thing is, though, that I felt that things wrapped up way to quickly and conveniently almost, and also, the ending kinda threw me off. It kind of felt weird when you think about how things were going up to that point and I don't feel a sequel was 100% necessary. But I'm still excited for the next one!