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The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind

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86 points, 4 ½ stars!

Blurb: 

For Teagan Frost, sh* just got real.

Teagan Frost is having a hard time keeping it together. Sure, she's got telekinetic powers -- a skill that the government is all too happy to make use of, sending her on secret break-in missions that no ordinary human could carry out. But all she really wants to do is kick back, have a beer, and pretend she's normal for once.

But then a body turns up at the site of her last job -- murdered in a way that only someone like Teagan could have pulled off. She's got 24 hours to clear her name - and it's not just her life at stake. If she can't unravel the conspiracy in time, her hometown of Los Angeles will be in the crosshairs of an underground battle that's on the brink of exploding . . .

Full of imagination, wit, and random sh*t flying through the air, this insane adventure from an irreverent new voice will blow your tiny mind.

Available on Amazon and other major outlets June 18th, 2019. Preorder now!

Review:

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind is going to be one of my favourite reads of the entire year. I loved this book, and I loved it even more for knowing that there is going to be a sequel to it. I loved the entire concept of the book. Reading The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind, it was like it was written for me. It had almost every element of urban fantasy and sci-fi that I love, and only some I dislike.

The hardest part about this book is figuring out how to abbreviate it. TGWCMSWHM? Move Sh*t? Or even to abbreviate it at all, because how could you ruin such an awesome, descriptive title? This is going to be a hard one. The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind is a mouthful. On two occasions now I've brought up the book to other people, and they've thought I was joking that it was really called that. Yet it is awesome.

I just enjoyed the hell out of reading The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind. It was like watching an action movie that isn't taking itself seriously. This is the kind of urban fantasy I want to read more of, in a genre I already adore. It was made even better because it was probably the most LA thing I've read in quite some time. It isn't that only people in LA would argue about what streets to use during a mad dash across the city, it is that they'll do it every single time. And the characters in The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind do it every single time. As an LA native, though I don't live there any longer, it was like hanging out with family. 

The story isn't really any different in The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind as it is in many other urban fantasy series. Someone is dead, and they are blaming our main character, Teagan Frost, for doing it. All because the fact that she is the only one who has her powers, and only her powers could have caused the death in this way. Right? No, apparently not. Teagan has 22 hours (she isn't even allowed 24!) to clear her name, or the government will lock her up and experiment on her. Again.

Teagan Frost is fun. She doesn't really like being a government agent, she just doesn't have a choice. She loves food, and wants to own a restaurant, instead. She also just wants to have fun and eat good food. She wants to be a normal person, as normal as she can be with telekinesis that no one else has. Her workmates are scared of her, but she is okay with that, for the most part. She has her friends, who don't know what she can do, and she isn't going to let a bunch of people who don't matter make her feel worse about herself. 

The ending was special to me. It isn't often I get blindsided by the end to a book. An end that I didn't actually see coming. I didn't expect the stakes that ended up happening. I definitely didn't expect the twist at the end. Maybe I should have, maybe I couldn't have. But it is definitely special to me. I love being surprised.
The entire book is also special to me because of what happened with the romance over the course of the book. Once again, I didn't expect parts of it to play out as it did. And I respect the hell out of Jackson Ford for doing what he did with it. I didn't expect how it played out, because I have never, ever seen it done that way. And it is a way that I dearly wish more authors would use, because it is so effective, and so much more honest than what I normally see. I absolutely adored it.

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind is a bit predictable. But I'm alright with that, because mostly it is just a hell of a lot of fun. However, sometimes I really wished it would just have taken itself a bit more seriously. It just took everything a step too far over some lines I have in my head between serious, ridiculous, and over-the-top. I'll be okay with the ridiculous elements, until just one more thing will set me over the edge into territory I couldn't take seriously or believe anymore. That's okay, I just had trouble adapting to it.

I loved this book as much as I hated it. Which really means that I loved it so much that every time it diverged even a tiny bit from what I wanted, it was jarring and discordant to me, and I got upset by this divergence. But, I loved it all the same. The next title in the series, Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air, is going to be on my preorder list as soon as I find it on Amazon.

I received this book from netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you to Jackson Ford, Orbit, and Netgalley for providing this opportunity to review this copy!

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First thing I need to admit: I wanted this because of the title. Seriously, the title told me the book should be just plain fun…and it was!

Now, I wasn’t sure at first. It started out like a heist novel and those aren’t my thing. But soon enough, it turned into so much more. And props to the author: every time I had a little thing that bugged me, the author addressed it and made everything okay.

The characters are awesome – even one who completely shocked and disappointed me. The author sprinkles some surprises and some absolute shocks through the story. One shocking reveal had my mouth literally dropping. I just sat there, completely stunned.

This appears to be first in a series and there’s a little loose end that I MUST find out about. I’m in. Bring on book 2!

*ARC Provided via Net Galley

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Really digging this book. The premise is interesting and I enjoyed all of the plot twists thrown at the reader throughout the story. Things are emotionally realistic and the characters are pretty insightful and fairly emotionally balanced, in my opinion. The protagonist has a very distinct voice that feels like you're reading about a friend, which I enjoy as well.

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3.5/5 stars

This book is so out of control and I love it. It goes off to a running start and continues a pretty quick pace throughout. I love how Teagen is just so sassy from the beginning till the end, but she's still so serious whenever she has to be. I love characters like that, so it was really just tons of fun reading her POV. I also enjoyed Jake's POV, but Teagen's was definitely the starring voice in this book. The conspiracies around her being framed for a murder honestly pulled me in, so I had a good time following along. Only reason I'm not rating it higher is because by the end, I just didn't have that feeling of "I LOVED THIS" or "this is definitely a new fave of mine". It was just a book that I really enjoyed to read, and thinking back there are some things I personally didn't like. The romance in here was my main gripe, as I didn't feel it was needed so much, but it's alright. Kept going between 3 and 4 stars, but I genuinely did have fun reading this. I'd probably go out of my way one day to buy a physical copy whenever I need a g00d-time read.

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